Linux Specialist

Company Description
**Writing the future. Together.**

Avaloq is a value driven, fast-paced financial technology and services company and we are committed to developing the banking solutions of tomorrow.

Job Description
**Your Team**

Platform Operations Team holds the fort to the Infrastructure and the Platform services to support Avaloq’s internal and external clients on a day-to-day basis. Being part of a dynamic team, the SMEs are involved in the inception, building and operating of the Infrastructure and Platform services, collaborating closely with Applications, Security Operations and Engineering teams.

As an individual contributor, he/she will be reporting to the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Team Lead. Also, he/she will work with the vendor team, network team, database specialist, backup and storage team, middleware team and deployment team.

This person is largely responsible for providing operational operating systems and services to the organization.

**Your Mission**
- User administration on Linux systems including creates, modifies, and deletion of accounts, for user rights assignment and permission configurations, using LDAP in a multi-domain setup
- Monitors and analyse system performance, detailing the system resource utilization versus user experiences and putting forth recommendations to improve users’ experience, ensuring high level of availability and usability.
- Scripting in Linux, to automate mundane daily routine tasks or repeatable installation tasks, with status reports on status of automated tasks, alerts on failed tasks and automated remedial actions for failed tasks.
- Plans and implement backup and recovery strategy for the systems, performing system recovery tests on a periodic basis.
- Implements system and user configurations and system hardening to comply with security policy
- Performs impact analysis for hardware / operating system updates, patches and configuration changes
- Writes and maintain technical system operating documents, detailing the systems functions, installation, configurations, backup and recovery procedures

Qualifications
**What you need**
- Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum 5 years of working experience in system administrator capacity
- Certification in Linux
- Experience in both virtualized and physical environments
- Experience in supporting disaster recovery of Linux servers
- Good knowledge of shell script programming and automation tasks.
- Openshift and/or Cloud Computing experience (both private or public cloud)
- Familiar with cloud infrastructure designs and implementations and the process from development to operations
- Good oral and written communication skills with ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others and gains understanding
- Process oriented with good documentation and diagrammatic skills

**You will get extra points for the following**

Availability is key for each Avaloq client that uses our services.

Skillsets to design and implement automation in order to put each new client into operations in the fastest time is beneficial.

Additional Information
**Now let's talk about perks and compensation**

We offer high flexibility in regards to working models (e.g. part time and home office models are possible depending on business requirements). Our base salaries are competitive and if you prove to be a superstar, you might even be entitled to an extraordinary achievement reward. Avaloq aims to share its success with all its employees by paying out “Success Share Units” depending on its performance in a given year.

At Avaloq we embrace diversity, we embrace difference. We are whole-heartedly committed to equal employment opportunities and we foster an inclusive culture where everyone’s' contributions are valued and their voices are listened to. We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other fascinating characteristics that make us different. Please note that our job descriptions are intended to be written in an inclusive and gender neutral language.

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