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NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) works at the very heart of the health service in Scotland, providing a diverse range of services to ensure frontline patient care is delivered effectively. As well as direct services such as blood transfusion and national screening programmes, the Agency provides a wide range of support services such as: collation, interpretation and dissemination of information; payment of primary care practitioners; surveillance of infectious and communicable diseases; national procurement; counter fraud services and provision of expert legal services.
As part of the IT Strategic Business Unit, NSS Infrastructure services has direct responsibility for over 400 servers running over 250 different applications, and for processing over 100 million records per year. The NSS Infrastructure Server team is responsible for maintaining and supporting the existing server estate as well as researching emerging technologies and recommending future direction. They are also involved in a number of major IT projects aimed at optimising the use of IT infrastructure.
The team is split into 3 areas of expertise - Microsoft, UNIX, and Oracle Database Admin.
An opportunity has become available within our Server team for an experienced UNIX/Linux Engineer. The successful candidate will be part of a team supporting over 100 servers mainly Solaris and Red hat with attached storage arrays. The servers run a variety of applications including Oracle databases, apache and tomcat.
You will have a strong background in systems administration with skills covering:
• Solaris and Red Hat server management
• VMware Vcenter Server 6.0
• Storage management mainly Netapp and Nimble
• Experience of ldap technologies
• Web and application servers mainly Apache and Tomcat
• Also advantageous would be experience of working in a hybrid cloud environment primarily azure. Experience of container technologies mainly Docker and Solaris zones would be desirable
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits.
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Stephen Mullen at Stephen.mullen@nhs.net
Further information on NSS is available from: www.nhsnss.org
Closing date for completed applications is Friday 24th May 2019.
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).
NHS National Services Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies