Systems support Engineer (IT/RedHat)

Job description

Responsibilities
Deliver Service Operations support to both internal and external customers in alignment with contractual terms and established Service Level Agreements (SLAs).


Maintain and ensure the optimal performance of all systems and products managed by the Service Operations team.


Serve as the single point of contact (SPOC) for customers when required, coordinating with internal resolver teams, the Service Desk, and customers to ensure timely intervention and high-quality service resolution within defined SLAs.
Provide top-tier incident and problem management support, coordinating resolutions with the appropriate technical teams.


Minimize service restoration times by escalating issues to specialized resolver groups both within and outside the organization, in accordance with SLA and monitoring policies.


Oversee the replacement of faulty equipment, ensuring the availability and timely replenishment of spare parts as per the defined sparing policy.


Uphold the highest operational standards across the team by offering guidance, support, and hands-on management for incident and problem resolution.


Proactively identify service and infrastructure issues, conduct diagnostics, and maintain ownership of service requests to ensure effective problem resolution.


Assist senior team members in daily task coordination, reporting, and overall operational management.


Follow installation standards and industry best practices to ensure high-quality service delivery and system operations.


Utilize appropriate tools and equipment to perform installations, interventions, and repairs in line with operational guidelines.


Escalate unresolved problems to higher support levels as needed.


Conduct scheduled preventive and proactive maintenance, as well as monitoring of systems and services, to meet customer expectations.


Execute Change Management, Configuration, Design, and Implementation tasks for supported systems and products.


Manage local vendors to ensure consistent service delivery to the Service Operations centers, and report on vendor performance to management.


Analyze, define, document, and test system and application enhancements.


Provide on-site support to end-users during service cutovers.


Continually identify, document, and share lessons learned, known errors, and operational insights to enhance service quality.


Be available for escalations and support during off-hours and on-call standby as required.


Qualifications
Diploma/Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or equivalent Telecommunications in-country qualification.


Unix / Linux Certification, VMWare Certification, ITIL Foundation v3 Certification
At least 3 years IT experience in following technologies: Operating System: RHEL 7/8, RHEL HA, Windows Data center 2016/2019 with clustering
Hardware: HP DL360 Gen 9, DELL R430XD, DELL R730XD / equivalent
Virtualization: ESXi, VMWare vSphere 7/8, VMware vCentre, VMware SRM Standard
MQ: MQ v8/9, MQ IPT, MQ Clustering, IBM License Manager
Web: Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat Application Server
Monitoring tools: NagiosXI, NagiosLog, eG Monitoring suite
Firewall: Palo Alto 850 & PA-5220 (equivalent), Checkpoint Firewall (equivalent)
Load Balancer: F5 BIG-IP LTM i2600
Vulnerability Manager (IBM Qradar All-in-one console, Event collector), Waterfall MQ Agent (Waterfall for IBM Websphere MQ)
CA Server Luna HSM, Aruba Clearpass, SafeNet Network HSM, SecurityToken, Nessus Manager, Nessus Security Centre, McAfee Advanced Security Suite, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator
Storage: DELL EMC Unity 400, 300
Backup: EMC Data Domain with DD Boost & DD Replicator, DELL EMC Networker, Veritas System Recovery
Other Technologies: RedHat Satellite/Spacewalk, DHCP, TFTP, Mail, Squid (WEB Proxy), NFS, Active Directory, DNS, NTP, Yum repo, IPA, SysLog servers.


Experience / Skills
Provided application support including routine health checks, service restarts, error log analysis, fault reporting, and issue replication in staging environments.


Administered monitoring tools to ensure system performance and availability.


Handled Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes across hardware and software platforms.


Managed application release processes and performed preventive maintenance activities.


Conducted root cause analysis to identify and resolve recurring issues.


Utilized Java debugging skills and scripting languages such as PERL, BASH, and PYTHON for automation and troubleshooting.


Supported and maintained network and security infrastructure in compliance with IT security policies.


Upgraded network and security devices with stable firmware versions to ensure optimal performance and security.


Administered and supported Storage and Backup environments following organizational standards.


Performed regular health checks, error log investigations, production issue resolutions, fault reporting, and issue replication in non-production environments for storage and backup systems.


Monitored and reported on storage and backup performance metrics as needed.


Executed on-demand system backups and recoveries when required.


Collaborated with third-party vendors for hardware issue resolutions, including component replacements.


Participated in data center (DC) failover testing exercises.


Demonstrated strong organizational skills with the ability to take full ownership of issues through to resolution.


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