Location : ,
6 months
Phone and skype
Sacramento, CA
Onsite 5 days per week – Client is very highly preferring local consultant here
Linus Systems Engineer
About the Linux Engineering Team
You will be part of the Technical Solutions team responsible for designing, building, delivering and providing Linux Engineering support for our Linux server environments, as well as: Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, vRealize, VMware and Azure cloud. Our job is to ensure that every customer has the best experience possible utilizing the Linux solutions we provide.
Overview of the Senior Linux Engineer role
As a Senior Linux Engineer, you will be participate in supporting all of company Linux infrastructure that supports our corporate and retail locations worldwide. You will work with other engineers to deliver performance and service standards from your internal customer's requirements. Using your technical experience, you will deploy to standards, automate service delivery, complete capacity planning and demonstrate efficient and effective use of the Linux environment.
Responsibilities
• Develop and Implement the technical standards for Linux OS running RHEL and CentOS.
• Kernel tuning
• Implement capacity planning for Linux REPOs and support tools for Linux, (ie, GitHub, Satellite, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins)
• Work with the architects to evaluate new technologies and perform POCs (Proof of Concept labs) to extend the multi-year roadmap and set overall technical direction for our infrastructure team
• Gather, analyze and drive project requirements, design and implement Linux infrastructure components
• Work closely with Level2 team(s) and help define their workflow and runbooks
• Have the opportunity to be hands-on, working side by side with our people to get things done
• Grow and develop your team's technical capabilities, manage individual's priorities and tasks.
• Publish Build-To and review the As-Built documentation for current and new server related design deployments
• Provide insightful data to guide decision making and offer proactive solutions.
• Operate a computer and communicate via telephone
• Transport materials and equipment and lift, move, and carry objects up to 50 pounds on a limited basis
Criteria
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Sciences, Engineering, or related field (an equivalent combination of related education, training, and experience may be considered)
• 7+ years of a managing Linux Operating Systems in an enterprise environment
• Fundamental understanding of deploying and supporting Linux servers in a highly available and fault tolerant enterprise level environment.
• Delivery of fully integrated, automated, and highly available Linux provisioning process with enterprise level tools and technologies
• You have a deep and wide understanding of Linux Operating Systems, Virtualization platforms, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management tools (example: Ansible, Puppet) and strong familiarity with Oracle and/or SQL databases, VMWare and/or HyperV
• You have a firm grasp of scripting techniques including Linux scripting language, Python, ksh, bash, shell scripting is highly desired
• You have strong working knowledge of security best practices for implementing highly secure Linux solutions
• Ideally, you have experience deploying and maintaining a Satellite patch solution and experience configuring and managing AD SPN objects on Linux servers using keytab files
• You have experience with configuration, administration and performance troubleshooting experience for Linux OS, apache/tomcat, and database servers running on Linux.
• You have hands-on experience with Ansible, Satellite, REPOs, and Linux automation
• You have knowledge of Server hardening, system monitoring, performance tuning and process mapping.