Job Description

Lead Engineer – Unix

Let’s be unstoppable together!

At Circana, we are fueled by our passion for continuous learning and growth, we seek and share feedback freely, and we celebrate victories both big and small in an environment that is flexible and accommodating to our work and personal lives. We have a global commitment to diversity,equity,and inclusion as we believe in the undeniable strength that diversity brings to our business, employees, clients, and communities (with us you can always bring your full self to work). Join our inclusive, committed team to be a challenger, own outcomes, and stay curious together. Learn more at www.circana.com

The Lead Administrator provides hands-on day-to-day technical support for Linux & UNIX systems at an experienced level. The scope of this position includes mission critical support for Linux & UNIX servers, all of which are in our Global Datacenters and Regional Datacenters. This individual will be part of a team that is responsible for the following operational areas: support, administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting, and participating in technology driven projects to enhance our service.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead Administration skills with experience in Centos/RHEL/OEL (6/7/8) version
• Worked on OS upgrade, OS update and other migration efforts from CentOS/RHELto OEL 8.x

• Guide and mentor junior engineers, providing technical support and leadership, and fostering a culture of engineering best practices.
• Scripting for DevOPs automation. Shell, Perl, Python or other popular languages.
• Familiarity with other languages like R, Java, HTTP, etc. is a plus.
• Working knowledge of OS installation automation using kickstart and post-installation scripting
• Automation technology experience with Ansible
• Linux and Unix security patching and OS updating
• Working knowledge of VMware from a Linux SA perspective such as host setup and maintenance
• Provide RCA for production issues (Sev1/Sev2) outages and work to stabilize the environment with best practices and come out with ideas/inputs
• Documentation and best practices and share knowledge with the team members
• Experience with Cisco UCS, HP-UX, VM and Cloud infrastructure preferred

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Computers or related field
• knowledge of hardware setup, debugging and failure resolution
• Experience with infrastructure debugging and performance monitoring
• Worked with global team, various management levels, business stakeholders, Service Delivery and Project managers, other subject matter experts and vendor engineers
• Familiarity with Hadoop, Cloud technology and Big Data infrastructure
• 10 -14 years of IT experience and worked as a lead handling major projects/initiative
• Effective written and oral communication skills.Hands on Experience in Linux and part of troubleshooting and RCA analysis
• Automation mindset for addressing core issues and stabilizing the environment
• Orientation to problem-solving and analysis
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Responsiveness and speed with attention to details & accuracy
• Ability to work well in teams and with clients
• Ability to balance and prioritize multiple competing tasks

Circana Behaviors

As well as the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our shared behaviors sit at the core of our organization. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion these behaviors throughout the business within their day-to-day role:

• Stay Curious: Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions
• Seek Clarity: Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action
• Own the Outcome: Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices
• Center on the Client: Relentlessly adding value for our customers
• Be a Challenger: Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement
• Champion Inclusivity: Fostering trust in relationships engaging with empathy, respect and integrity
• Commit to each other: Contributing to making Circana a great place to work for everyone

Location

This position can be located in the following area(s): Bangalore/ Pune

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