Senior System Administrator- IT Operations
Colruyt Group India Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
IT Services and IT Consulting · 501-1,000 employees
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About the role
The Senior System Administrator will oversee IT infrastructure and batch environment monitoring while acting as a technical escalation point for 24x7 operations. They are responsible for ensuring service quality, managing incidents, and coordinating with technical teams to prevent outages.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 5-10 years of experience in IT operations with strong expertise in mainframe batch monitoring and ITIL frameworks. A bachelor's degree in a technical field such as B.Tech, B.Sc, BCA, or MCA is required.
Full 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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