UNIX Infrastructure Engineer

UNIX Infrastructure Engineer – Finance Platform

This role is part of Engineering team in our Finance Platform and will focus on work in our Accounting & Statutory Reporting Lab. We want somebody to join our engineering component team as we embark on a programme of infrastructure/application upgrades and technology management through our delivery across on-premises and cloud hosting platforms. With responsibility for delivering the technical service and management of engineering capability across a lab wide component team covering application upgrades, management of the software components & infrastructure management, technology support and engagement with our GCIO & IBM partners for provision of infrastructure service delivery across our application estate, Webservices, UNIX, TSM and Databases.

About the Accounting & Statutory Reporting Team

Our team sits within the Finance Platform. You will be responsible for supporting a complex financial reporting landscape as well as the existing/legacy ledgers and sub-ledgers.

We're a group of people pulled together by our passion for coding, experimenting, designing, and learning everything that makes us better engineers.

What you would get involved with

You would be working in a cross-disciplinary Lab wide team and will require close collaboration with the Lab feature team engineers, readiness for adoption of strategic cloud capabilities and help drive alignment and use of group standards and patterns. The role will be hands on with the right candidate having experience and actively participating in activities around engineering solutions across different hosting platforms, configuration, access management, integration, IaaS/PaaS across the following technologies:

• Window Server 
• Linux (RHEL, AIX) 
• Web Server technologies & Apache Tomcat, 
• SAP Business Objects 
• SAP BODS
• SAP BFC, BW, FIM 
• NetWeaver Java 
• Connect Direct 
• Scripting / Infrastructure as Code 
• Database technologies covering Oracle on-prem/C@C, SAP HANA, SQL Server

What you’ll need to be considered for this job

Generally, you are comfortable in a hands-on technical role, blending both software and infrastructure technical expertise.

We encourage people from a range of role and industry backgrounds but do need to see the following as a minimum for consideration:

• 5 years plus Software/Infrastructure Engineering background with experience in IaaS scripting and strong UNIX skills.
• Technical leadership experience and desire to help coach and mentor staff and colleagues.
• Great social interaction skills and a good communicator with technical and non-technical people. 
• Passionate about Cloud/platform engineering and evaluating existing deployments to determine the best hosting strategy. 
• Good understanding and/or experience of large, complex infrastructure upgrades 

Oh, and if you have any prior experience working within a finance function or with general ledger systems that would be handy, but please apply if you don’t!

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol Office.