Staff Server Operations Engineer

Management Level

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.  

EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide.

Capitalising on India’s strong reputation as a global talent hub for IT / ITES, EQ India has structured the organisation to be a part of this growth story. Today, EQ India has evolved as an indispensable part of EQ Group providing critical fintech services to the US and UK.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

EQ is looking for a Staff Sever Operations Engineer to help us deploy and manage our Global infrastructure hosted in multiple data centre and cloud.

We are searching for an enthusiastic engineer ready to join our team to help us evaluate, implement, deploy and support technologies that enable our users to collaborate with UK & US customers. The motivated candidate should have a firm understanding of IT system Infrastructure with good knowledge and understanding of server infrastructure (Windows & Linux), fileservers, security fundamentals, network devices such as load balancers and Firewalls.

Responsibilities and Skills Required

• Proactively maintain and develop all Linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24x7x365 uptime service.
• Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning.
• IN depth knowledge of Linux: RedHat, CentOS, Debian, etc.
• Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on servers, workstations, and network hardware
• Solid knowledge of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP and SNMP
• Expert in Shell, Perl, and/or Python, terraform scripting
• Experience in managing Linux servers.
• Experience in AWS, Azure, EC2, Fsx, AMs, S3, Terraform, Puppet.
• Additional Linux certifications (RHCT, RHCE and LPIC) will be considered an advantage
• Strong grasp on configuration management tools, such as Puppet and Chef, Ansible.
• Experience with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Git, etc.
• AWS Cloud Administration will be added advantage

EQ India Benefits: 

• Being a permanent member of the team at EQ as you will be working on US/UK business hours you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:
• Comprehensive Medical & Life Assurance cover
• Maternity leave of 6 months full pay, 10days paid paternity leave
• Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) for all colleagues
• Accidental & Life cover 2 times of concerned CTC

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.