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Technical Resources Ltd

Salary

Competitive + Excellent Benefits

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Unix Infrastructure Architect

My client a leading IT Managed Service provider requires a Unix Infrastructure Architect to be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining system architecture, required to support the services.

* Working in unison with a non-technical Service Designer and possibly a wider project team, act as the technical design authority, leading the assessment of requirements with view to designing and implementing a well-defined managed services solution.
* As technical lead for our new service offerings, supporting the business in assessing and coming up with solutions for bespoke client requirements and future strategic service requirements.
* Perform and oversee evaluation of new or updated technology components.
* Identify risks and propose supporting plans for successful new service implementation
* Determine technology standards and create supporting documentation for design, build, configuration, installation, monitoring, reaction and support.
* Product lifecycle management, ensuring well maintained technology components and their lifecycle, investigates and evaluates future plans from vendors and assess impact of product changes on the services and infrastructure.
* Escalation point to Operations department in terms of 4th line support and solutions delivery department on client deployment projects.

Requirements:
UNIX Architect
Experience of LINUX/Red Hat/Apache
Experience of a complex application such as Weblogic/WebSphere/JBoss.
Experience of virtualisation would be advantageous
Experience of a database like MySQL would be advantageous.
Excellent Communication skills

The type of person we are looking for may come from an service provider or ecommerce background but we will not rule anyone out with the right skills.

Typically they will be handling no more than 2-3 projects at a time which could last from several days to several months depending on the parameters of the project and its impact on the business.

Location: Staines

Salary: £55,000 Plus excellent benefits