Systems Engineer

4 weeks ago


Adelaide, Australia Datacom Full time

Our Purpose

Here at Datacom, we connect people and technology to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in whilst embodying a culture of trust and respect for employees and customers alike.

Our team

Our Unix Services teams support a whole range of organisations; providing IT support across a range of technologies and applications. The team is made up of 60 plus service professionals, and we’re continuously growing.

About the Role

As Systems Engineer - Linux, your role is to manage and maintain the Linux/Unix server environment and to provide proactive and reactive support services. The managed services team(s) are engaged by our customers to maintain the availability and reliability of a their core infrastructure. You will be using Automation tools such as Ansible on a day-to-day basis and may be required to assist customers with Application rollouts via Ansible at times.

In conjunction with the rest of the Managed Services team, you will be accountable for the timely action of customer service requests, within agreed service levels, whilst maintaining accurate and timely updates to technical documentation and ticket notes. You will also be required to operate under the guidelines of defined processes and procedures and are expected to ensure effective and professional communication with all relevant parties.

***To be successful in your application for this role, you must be an Australian Citizen with the ability to achieve Baseline Government Security clearance***

What you’ll do

As Systems Engineer - Linux, you will be responsible for, but not limited to the following:

  • Use Ansible to perform day to day activities
  • Use & modify existing Ansible playbooks to perform Application rollouts in customer environments
  • Meet client SLAs for system availability, uptime and reliability
  • Proactively manage and monitor the system environment for continuing business support
  • Perform role responsibilities and duties during business hours, with occasional after-hours and on-call as required
  • Perform regular Project Services work and work at a Design/Architecture level.

What You’ll Bring

You will bring at least three years’ experience in a complex, corporate, multi-server IT environment. You will have strong knowledge of RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 & 8 or similar flavour of Linux such as Ubuntu, Centos, etc. Along with extensive experience configuring and deploying servers, developing scripts to automate server builds and supporting systems infrastructure (systems, storage, networks, virtualisation platforms etc). You will be comfortable using Ansible in day-to-day operations tasks. Plus, you will have experience with sever security initiatives and have supported Virtual Server Environments.

You will possess exceptional customer, problem-solving and technical documentation skills, and be a team-player. Other skills you possess or technologies that you will have worked with include:

Configuration Management:

  • git, GitLab CI/CD
  • gitlab runners

Monitoring:

  • Check MK
  • Prometheus
  • Science Logic
  • PRTG
  • Grafana

Automation / Scripting:

  • Ansible
  • Python
  • Bash
  • PowerShell

Software Packaging / Deployment:

  • Red Hat Satellite
  • Docker / Buildah / Podman container development

Why Datacom?

Datacom is one of the largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services in New Zealand and Australia. As an ANZ company, we have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give us our unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

At Datacom, you'll be recognized and valued for your contributions. We're growing year on year and can provide career opportunity in a collegial and agile environment that empowers people and promotes innovation. We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as health insurance, employee discounts, social events, remote working, flexi-hours, and professional development courses to name a few. We operate at the leading edge of technology to help our largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their biggest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

If you would like to know more and this sounds like you. Please apply online today


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