Senior Unix Specialist - Exciting Educational Organisation

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Senior Unix Specialist - Exciting Educational Organisation 

London, W1W 

£44,579 - £48,255 (including London Weighting Allowance) 

Based in the heart of London, our client is one of the UK’s leading educational organisations. They are now looking for a Senior Unix Specialist to join their team. 

If you are an analytical ITIL professional with experience of a Linux or Unix multi-server environment, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a thriving organisation at an exciting time in their evolution. 

Within a fast-paced and stimulating environment, you’ll have the chance to undertake excellent training, pursue your career aspirations and work with a number of new technologies. 

As the Senior Unix Specialist, you’ll be responsible for helping to lead the implementation of our client’s Linux and Unix infrastructure services and systems. 

Joining a small and friendly team, you’ll support the effective delivery of operational services in-line with the ITIL quality management framework. 

You’ll help to drive the migration away from legacy services, as well as ensuring that third line support, backup, disaster recovery and business continuity services are delivered to the highest standards. 

Additionally, you’ll identify requirements, evaluate solutions, plan upgrades, develop systems and build long-lasting relationships with suppliers. 

To be considered, you must have a professional computing qualification (or equivalent). Demonstrable knowledge and experience of the following is also essential: 

- Working in an ITIL-based environment, including project management, change control and incident management 

- Development and support within a multi-server Linux and/or Unix environment, with an emphasis on the support and development of services 

- The support and development of physical and virtual infrastructure in data centre environments 

- Networking and mixed infrastructure environments, such as Linux or Unix, VMware, MS and Novell 

As the Senior Unix Specialist, you must be articulate with superb interpersonal and relationship-building skills. You must also be able to effectively prioritise your workload and juggle demands within a fast-paced environment. 

A degree (or equivalent) would be beneficial to your application. 

Please note, the closing date for applications is 27th July 2016. Interviews are scheduled to be held in early August. 

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