Senior Unix Systems Administrator

Full-time

Employee Status: Regular

Role Type: Home

Department: Information Technology & Systems

Schedule: Full Time

Shift: Day Shift

**Company Description**:
Experian is the world’s leading global information services company. During life’s big moments - from buying a home or a car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting with new customers - we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence. We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organizations to prevent identity fraud and crime.

We have 20,000 people operating across 44 countries and every day we’re investing in new technologies, talented people, and innovation to help all our clients maximize every opportunity.

The Systems Administrator Senior will be responsible for documentation, deployment and troubleshooting of the complete IT Unix environment including, but not limited to: AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Core competencies include but are not limited to: Linux and AIX operating systems, x86 hypervisors, scripting-automation, and x86 hardware solutions, IBM P series hardware, Ansible, Patching, Security Hardening.

Work with a team of Unix engineers, acts as Subject Matter Expert for area of responsibility and provide support for Experian Unix Environment, including BAU OS support tickets, incidents, vulnerability remediation, compute and storage changes. Follow change management process. Liaison to other teams within the department for expert advice in the area of servers, high availability, security, virtualization and operating systems technology.

**Summary of Primary Responsibilities**
- Leads and-or participates in the design, development, and implementation of complex system engineering activities involving cross-functional technical support, systems programming and data center capabilities.
- Responsible for components of highly complex engineering and-or analytical tasks and activities
- Will have responsibility for multiple, complex projects.

**Qualifications**:

- Information Technology degree and-or technology certifications preferred or substantial equivalent experience.
- 5-8 years of systems engineering experience
- Strong customer and communication skills to interact with team members, customers, vendors and leadership team.
- Senior level Experience with Redhat Linux OS
- Senior level Experience with SUSE Linux
- Advanced Shell scripting and IaC automation skills with Ansible and Terraform
- Familiarity with tools like BladeLogic, DNT, ESM, vsphere client is a huge plus
- Experience with IBM AIX OS is desired.
- Familiarity with pSeries AIX server models, HMC Consoles
- Familiarity with AIX, VIO, microcode, and firmware upgrades
- Ability to lead projects and be a leader on distributed team
- Knowledge of AWS is desired
- Provide Operating System technical and break-fix level support
- Strong Experience in RedHat Linux administration on RHEL6, RHEL7, RHEL8, RedHat Clustering, VMware and ESX
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to a constantly changing environment
- Knowledge of SAN based disk solutions and their configurations
- Ability to work independently but also must be strong in team partnership
- Work a flexible schedule, with 24 hour oncall pager and weekend overnight work expected
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. Excellent organization skills

**Additional Information**:
**_ This is a permanent home-based role in Costa Rica. No relocation available._**

Our benefits include: Medical, life and dental insurance, Asociacion Solidarista, International Share Save Plan, Flex Work, Work from home, Paid time off, Annual Performance Bonus, Education Reimbursement, Family Bonding, Bereavement Leave, Referral Program, and more.