Unix System Administrator

Company Description Talan is an international group (10 countries, 6,000 employees) of **Professional Services and IT Consulting**, committed for 20 years to **Innovation** and **Digital Transformation** of its clients. **Talan Canada** (founded in 1997) has **more than 110 consultants** who work in an agile and pragmatic way with large companies (Finance, Insurance, Telecommunications, Services, Distribution, Public Sector) by combining consulting services / technological expertise / capacity to deliver and deploy projects. The group is also experiencing a **strong dynamic** in North America with nearly 600 employees, following in particular the recent merger with several Montreal companies (Projexia, Insum, Createch). We do **everything possible** to ensure that our **employees** can **grow** and **develop** at Talan. As a result, we have received the "**Great Place to Work Canada**" certification, which rewards companies that are good places to work. **Job Description**: Talan Canada is growing and looking to strengthen its teams with Unix System Administrator for the Montreal office, able to work with clients in several industries. **_Hybrid working schedule._** **DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES**: - Work integrated in an agile organized team to deliver Unix support and projects - Follow up on Clients requests and incidents. Work with them as a business partner in total transparency - Participate in the Follow the Sun support by providing support for Europe and Asia - Propose innovative and industrial solutions to automatize your repetitive tasks and improve team’s efficiency - Participate in the common automation effort by collaborating actively with the various feature teams - Manage the activity based on ITIL Framework (Change management, Incident/Request management) - Onboard the teams’ routine and participate in overtime operations at least once a Month - Work closely with our Bangalore based Level 1 on our service optimization **Areas of development** - Scrum Method is at the heart of our team’s organization, get onboarded and learn about it. - Get involved with API development for the automation of our IT operations, Python is required. - Collaborate in the development of the products of our feature teams. Bring your point of view on the features. - Work on a 3500+ server scope. **Qualifications**: **Excellent technical skills on the following technologies**: - Linux Server Operating Systems RHEL 5+ years - Dev (Python/Perl/Git/Bash) 3+ years - Volume manager and LVM 3+ years - Puppet 3+ years - Cloud based technologies 2+ years **Proficient in**: - Redhat IDM - HP / DELL x86 Hardware - Low latency networking and troubleshooting (10GB / Multicast) - TCP/IP protocol suite and its utilities (LDAP, DHCP, DNS, SMTP, and NFS, etc.) - NetBackup or other enterprise backup platforms - SAN and FC Storage and NFS **Desired / Plus**: - Redhat Satellites - Oracle RAC setup - ElasticSearch / Kibana / Logstach - Software Factory (e.g. Jenkins) and Continous Delivery - Contribution on Open Source Github project - Openstack **Competencies**: - Effective on automation and orchestration (Scripting Python / Puppet ) - Client focused, be trustworthy and provide an excellent customer service. Be Flexible and able to work with developers and applicative teams - Collaborate, and bring in your creativity to deliver projects that will require interacting across different groups - Up to date on systems convergence and integration for disparate systems - Efficient on High Availability environments and DR scenario design, implementation and testing - Committed to deliver audit response and remediation. Have a Security focused mindset in order to participate in our server hardening effort - Understanding of backup technologies **Joining Talan also means**: - Joining a group where **Innovation **is at the heart of our development, thanks in particular to our investments and **partnerships **around the most impactful technologies for our customers such as Big **Data**, the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence, Cloud solutions,... - To join **dynamic teams**, where the **role of the employee is at the center of attention**, with the will to create spaces allowing each one to blossom, whether it is in his professional career or through social and environmental commitments. - Have the opportunity to access the group's various knowledge **communities**, share expertise, contribute to development, and innovate, all with a strong **team spirit** and entrepreneurship - Benefit from **competitive advantages on the market** **Talan is a great playground, it's up to you** Additional Information Unix System Administrator, Linux Server Operating Systems RHEL, Dev, Python, Perl, Git, Bash, Volume manager and LVM, Puppet, Cloud based technologies