Job Description

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values — Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

About the Department

Group Technology and Operations (GTO) provides software and system development, information technology support services and banking operations. We have centralized and standardized the technology components into Singapore, creating a global footprint which can be utilized for supporting our regional subsidiaries and the branches around the world. We operate and support 19 countries with this architecture to provide a secure and flexible banking infrastructure. Our Operations divisions provide transactional customer services for our businesses while also focusing on cost efficiency through process improvements, automation and straight through processing.

Job Responsibilities

Functionally reports to the Infra Service Recovery Lead under Group Infrastructure Platform Services, the Sr. IT Infrastructure Specialist will be responsible for ensuring the uptime, performance and compliance of distributed systems in accordance to the bank standard.

• Support the organization in developing, operating and managing large and sophisticated enterprise distributed opensystem environments, with a primary focus of VMware, Red Hat Linux, AIX and Solaris systems.
• Supporting IBM GPFS, Veritas cluster, PowerHA System Mirror and Solaris Cluster
• Supporting Redhat Openshift and MQ.
• Ensure system availability, performance & patch compliance in accordance to bank standards
• Resolving complex issues involving: system performance, system capacity, resiliency, stability, replication, and other key aspects of distributed opensystems.
• Act as a player coach for System Administrators.
• Backup & Recovery
• Participate in Disaster Recovery exercise
• Capacity planning
• Define Monitoring / Alert thresholds
• System resource management
• Operating system kernel tuning.
• Automation of system operational tasks.
• Communicate regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure system integrity and security
• Manage the security and disaster recovery.

Job Requirements

• Degree in Information Technology/Computer Science or equivalent
• More than 8 years’ experience in IT Infrastructure operations and System administration.
• Subject Matter Expertise in UNIX and Linux systems.
• Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 Administration (preferred)
• IBM MQ and Redhat Openshift operational experience.
• HPE ProLiant Hardware, IBM Power, Oracle SPARC server hardware experience.
• Professional understanding of vSphere networking
• Professional understanding of SAN Storage and Networking technologies
• Good understanding of large data center facilities operation
• Experience in Hyper Converge Infrastructure.
• Strong in Infrastructure Automation
• Strong awareness and sensitivity of the priority in maintaining full compliance with IT security and operation standards
• Highly organized, motivated and able to meet deadlines
• Customer focus and result oriented
• Ability to work under pressure with demanding objectives/timelines
• Ability to reflect proactively and take feedback positively
• Strong team player under a diverse workforce cultural backgrounds
• Able to work off hour and weekend support when required
  

Be a part of UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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