Associate Director, SUSE Linux Administrator

Major accountabilities:

• Solve incidents and perform changes in AWS Cloud environment. Own and drive incidents and its resolution. Must have extensive knowledge in workings of performance troubleshooting and capacity management.
• Champion the standardization and simplification of AWS Operations involving various services including S3, EC2, EBS, Lamda, Network, NACL, Security Groups and others.
• Prepare and run internal AWS projects, identify critical integration points and dependencies, propose solutions for key gaps, provide effort estimations while ensuring alignment with business and other teams
• Assure consistency and traceability between user requirements, functional specifications, Agile ways of working and adapting to DevSecOps, architectural roadmaps, regulatory/control requirements, and smooth transition of solutions to operations
• Deliver assigned project work as per agreed timeline within budget and on-quality adhering to following the release calendars
• Able to work in dynamic environment and supporting users across the globe. Should be a team player. Weekend on-call duties would be applicable as needed.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in business/technical domains
• AWS Cloud training
• SuSe Linux certifications / training
• Able to handle OS security vulnerabilities and administer the patches and upgrades
• > 8 years of relevant professional IT experience in the related technical area
• Proven experience in handling AWS Cloud workload, preparing Terraform scripts and running pipelines.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and be independently able to solve P1/P2 incidents
• Have working knowledge on of DR, Cluster, SuSe Linux and tools associated within AWS ecosystem
• Experience with installing and setting up SAP environment in AWS Cloud
• EC2 Instance setup, EBS and EFS Setup, S3 configuration
• Management of extending filesystems and adding new HANA instance
• Manage AWS Cloud accounts along with VPC, Subnets and NAT
• Proven track record of broad industry experience and excellent understanding of complex enterprise IT landscapes and relationships

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

You’ll receive (CZ only):
Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary; Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis); 5-week holiday per year; (1 week above the Labour Law requirement) ; 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report; Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus Cafeteria in the amount of 12,500 CZK per year; Meal vouchers in amount of 105 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company); Car Allowance; MultiSport Card. Find out more about Novartis Business Services: https://www.novartis.cz/

Why Novartis?
Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

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Accessibility and accommodation:
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