Senior System Administrator- IT Operations

Job Information

  • Job Type Permanant (Full Time)
  • Work Experience 5-8 years
  • City Coimbatore
  • Country India

Job Description



IT Operations team is responsible to monitor the IT Infrastructure & Batch environment of entire Colruyt Group and to ensure its high availability. We trigger relevant actions to ensure the upkeep of our IT Infrastructure and act as a first-line support to our service consumers.

We add value to the business by ensuring the issue resolution as fast as possible and strive to prevent delays/outages in coordination with other technical teams. We monitor and support Colruyt Group Pre-Production and Production environments in 24x7 shifts with a global team presence in Belgium and India. We are quite active in the following best practices of ITIL Framework:

  • Batch & Event Management
  • Incident Management
  • Change Management
  • Disaster/Major Incident Management


As a Senior System Administrator (Role: Shift Lead) of IT Operations team, you are expected to


  • Guarantee the quality, integrity, maturity, and service orientation towards our service consumers

  • An expert in Mainframe Batch monitoring.
Nice to have: Relevant experience in IT Infrastructure monitoring (Event monitoring)
  • Have enough awareness of the Infrastructure & Batch environment, can assess the level of impact and capable of addressing them

  • Handle all technical escalations

  • Setup the necessary procedures & documentation

  • Oversee the health of infrastructure systems and provide inputs towards continuous improvements

  • Makes a report of shift operations as needed


Responsibilities & Main tasks: (During your shift window)


  • Capable of executing all tasks as a “Mainframe Batch Operator”

  • Monitor different work dashboards (Eg: Batch, Event, Incident…) and trigger appropriate actions

  • Ensure, the other IT operators in your shift take-up their job as expected (E.g., shift handover's, Clean-up tasks, open incidents, ...)

  • Ensure, the IT Operators follow the available procedures, documentation, & knowledge base

  • Provide break-fix support & act as a technical escalation point

  • Oversee the management of Batch, Incident, Event & Change handling and required follow-up

  • Deal the complaints from our customers and take subsequent actions to improve the knowledge, work methods, etc.

  • Take lead in disaster meetings and help the stakeholders to address the issue(s)

  • Up to date w.r.t the knowledge of Infrastructure/Batch environment

  • Capable to assess the criticality of given situation and come out with alternatives

  • Quickly adaptable to the ongoing changes in the environment

  • Share the knowledge/questions with team or respective stakeholders

  • Identify the needs (or problems) and trigger relevant actions

  • Provide input towards possible automation and service/process improvements


Skills required


Technical


  • Very good understanding of ITIL V3/V4 Fundamentals

  • Experience in working with the tools like BMC Control-M, Microfocus OMI, Dynatrace, Tivoli., etc.

  • Fair knowledge of Windows & Linux Operating Systems

  • Strong Mainframe fundamentals

  • Good foundation of networking concepts

  • Nice to have: Knowledge & experience working with different automation tooling within IT Operations


Behavioral


  • Flexible to work in 24x7 shifts which also includes Night and Weekend-shifts

  • Very good communication & coordination skills

  • Very good team player

  • Very good analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities

  • Self-driven, committed, process Oriented and able to handle challenging situations

  • Open to take-up additional responsibilities as and when needed


Experience


  • 5-10 years relevant experience working in IT Operations domain


Education


  • B.Tech, B.Sc, BCA or MCA

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