Unix Engineer

The UNIX Engineer will be responsible for the administration, maintenance, support, and continuous improvement of enterprise UNIX platforms within customer and internal environments. The successful candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with Solaris and IBM AIX systems and will play a key role in ensuring the availability, security, and performance of business-critical infrastructure.

Working as part of a highly skilled infrastructure team, you will support production environments, contribute to project delivery, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and participate in platform upgrades and lifecycle management., * Administer, maintain, and support enterprise UNIX operating systems, primarily Solaris and IBM AIX.

• Monitor system health, performance, and availability, taking proactive action to prevent service disruption.
• Install, configure, patch, and upgrade UNIX operating systems and associated software.
• Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex infrastructure issues.
• Support business-critical production environments while maintaining agreed service levels.
• Implement security best practices, system hardening, and vulnerability remediation.
• Manage storage, filesystems, logical volumes, and system resources.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Shell, Perl, or Python where appropriate.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge articles.
• Support backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity activities.
• Participate in change management, incident management, and problem management processes.
• Work collaboratively with Linux, Windows, Network, Storage, Cloud, and Security teams to deliver integrated infrastructure solutions.
• Participate in an on-call support rota where required.

• Strong commercial experience administering enterprise UNIX environments.
• Proven expertise supporting:
• Oracle Solaris (Solaris 10/11)
• IBM AIX (6.x/7.x or later)
• Strong knowledge of:
• LVM and filesystem administration
• Performance tuning and capacity management
• System patching and lifecycle management
• User, group, and permission management
• TCP/IP networking fundamentals
• SSH, NFS, DNS, LDAP, and related infrastructure services
• Experience using monitoring and enterprise management tools.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Experience working within ITIL-based support environments.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Desirable Skills

• Experience supporting Linux platforms (Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Oracle Linux).
• Knowledge of automation tools such as Ansible.
• Experience with SAN storage technologies.
• Exposure to VMware or enterprise virtualisation platforms.
• Familiarity with backup technologies such as NetBackup or IBM Spectrum Protect.
• Experience working within regulated or security-conscious environments.
• Cloud platform exposure (Azure, AWS, or OCI).
• ITIL Foundation certification.
• Relevant vendor certifications for Solaris or IBM AIX.

Pulled from the full job description

• Annual leave
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Company events
• Car scheme, * 33 days annual leave
• Pension: 5% employee, 5% employer
• Life assurance at 4x salary
• Group income protection at 70% of salary for up to 2 years
• Help@Hand: remote GP - physiotherapy, nutritionist, and more
• Cycle to Work and EV car salary sacrifice schemes
• 6 fully expensed company events per year
• Option to donate to charity through salary

DataVita is a next-generation cloud and infrastructure company operating from Tier III-certified data centres in Scotland. We work at the bleeding edge of AI adoption, automation, and how these technologies can be integrated into complex legacy environments to deliver genuine transformation. DataVita is the fastest growing technology company in Scotland, with plans to deploy and invest over £2 billion in the coming years. You would be joining at a relatively early stage of that trajectory. For the right person, this is a chance to build something from the ground up inside a business that is scaling fast.