Senior Unix Engineer

NEC Australia is a leading technology company that delivers a complete portfolio of ICT solutions and services to large enterprise, small business and government customers. NEC Australia helps customers gain greater business value from their technology investments, by delivering end-to-end technology solutions, business and IT transformation consultancy, professional services, communications solutions, application and solutions development and infrastructure and applications managed services and support.

 About the role

Exciting opportunities have arisen for Senior UNIX Engineers to provide ongoing professional implementation within the Department of Defence Centralised Processing (CP) Project team.  

Key Responsibilities

• Define, install and maintain midrange UNIX servers 
• Monitor systems in line with pre-defined operational controls, processes and requirements
• Suggest and/or implement solutions to resolve problems and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction
• Supports the coordination of the processing environment and software distribution, upgrades and maintenance
• Administer central and/or distributed computer systems
• Provide third level technical support for complex problems
• Be available for on call roster, cyclic maintenance, DR, high severity issue resolution periodically as part of the defined support model
• Implement system changes
• Run and distribute defined system management reports
• Accountable for junior staff workload and completion of delegated tasks

Skills & Experience

To be successful in the role, you will be an experienced Unix Technical Support Engineer specifically with exposure to hardware diagnostics and troubleshooting in an enterprise environment.

 Additionally, you will have the following:

• A ‘can-do’ attitude and ability to provide leadership and technical support to a team of professionals
• Experience with Unix technologies, specifically Solaris, AIX and RHEL
• Experience in supporting Oracle Hardware e.g Oracle SuperCluster and T8 server systems highly regarded
• Experience with Satellite, Ansible and Nagios would be of benefit
• Advanced problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Applicants must have an existing NV1 or NV2 security clearance.