UNIX Systems Analyst

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At Hargreaves Lansdown, our UNIX and Linux based systems are the backbone of our mission critical client facing infrastructure. Due to the increasing demands we are now looking to increase the size of the team.

An average day will be diverse and present a wide variety of tasks that you will be involved with that would be typical of a system administrator. To name a few; ensuring that the systems are maintained and managed in line with best practice, resolve service affecting issues, implement changes to the systems, build new systems and environments, and providing technical guidance to other teams.

This role is suited to an individual who enjoys owning a problem but working with other teams to resolve it. As well as providing day to day support during normal business hours you will be expected to take part in our on-call rota. Due to the nature of the role there will also be some out of hours work expected.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

- Maintenance of the firm's UNIX infrastructure which supports the firm’s website, core back office, and CRM systems

- Troubleshooting problems

- Provide technical assistance to other teams

- Implementation of system changes

- Operating system patching and maintenance

Essential Skills and Attributes:

- Grade C or above in Maths and English GCSE (or equivalent)

- Educated to AS / A level (or equivalent)

- Linux Administration (Centos or Redhat)

- Solaris 10 administration

- VMWare