The Senior Linux System Engineer (SE) is responsible for the design, implementation, engineering and administration of Linux computing systems hardware, software and storage infrastructure supporting a 24x7 mission-critical environment.
These systems are core components of IT infrastructure supporting a large e-commerce website, plant operations, delivery logistics and general business services.
The position provides senior-level system administration support for our E-Commerce & Logistics website and associated applications and systems JOB DUTIES :
- Architecting systems infrastructure solutions to deliver business applications and contenting to customers at low latency and high throughput.
- Designing, implementing and supporting Linux computing systems hardware and software infrastructure using the following service models : on premise, co-location data center facility, Application Service Provider (ASP), managed hosted, SaaS cloud, PaaS cloud, IaaS cloud and hybrid.
- Providing system architecture, implementation, system administration, troubleshooting and operational supporting for an E-Commerce & Logistics website environment
- Proactively improving engineering, implementation and maintenance standards for systems supporting e-Commerce transactions, manufacturing operations and corporate processes.
- Collaborating with peers to formalize systems engineering, application support and operation processes and procedures based on industry standards (ITL, ISO, COBIT) and best practices.
- Investigating and resolving system performance bottlenecks and platform instability
- Providing continuous system and storage capacity management.
- Managing system deployment lifecycle and helping enforce Change Management Policies.
- Engineering and implementing fault tolerant, multi-site and distributed computing platform to support business growth.
- Developing a framework to provide performance baseline and improvement for critical business applications.
- Continuously studying the overall information and computing needs of the company and leverage technology to provide cost effective solutions.
- Elaborating strategy to deliver business value by using evolving infrastructure technology : cloud technology (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, and others), Managed Service Provider, hybrid, etc.
- Assisting in developing, implementing, and enforcing systems security policies and procedures.
- Collaborating with IT Security Team to implement and regularly test systems security controls.
- Assisting with improving and enforcing incident management policies and procedures.
- Assisting with managing system related compliance tasks (PCI).
- Providing third level escalation for operation problems and incidents.
- Resolving issues within prescribed SLA's and adhering to incident management procedures.
- Collaborating with peers on vendor and technology product selection process.
- Performing Linux virtualization implementation, supporting and upgrades.
- Working with application development team and internal clients on creating systems requirements, projection, and growth.
- Supporting enterprise data protection backup / recovery system.
- Acting as engineering liaison between Systems, Application, DBA, QA, Network, and other groups.
- Monitoring technology changes, advancements trends and innovations.
- Project managing change to systems and system deployment to production.
- Managing projects using Workfront portfolio, program, and project management cloud service.
- Coordinating and executing changes thru the change control policy and process.
- Part of On-Call support rotation team with after-hours and weekend balanced work as required.
- Mentoring less experienced team members.
The Senior Linux System Engineer (SE) is responsible for the design, implementation, engineering and administration of Linux computing systems hardware, software and storage infrastructure supporting a 24x7 mission-critical environment.
These systems are core components of IT infrastructure supporting a large e-commerce website, plant operations, delivery logistics and general business services.
The position provides senior-level system administration support for our E-Commerce & Logistics website and associated applications and systems JOB DUTIES :
- Architecting systems infrastructure solutions to deliver business applications and contenting to customers at low latency and high throughput.
- Designing, implementing and supporting Linux computing systems hardware and software infrastructure using the following service models : on premise, co-location data center facility, Application Service Provider (ASP), managed hosted, SaaS cloud, PaaS cloud, IaaS cloud and hybrid.
- Providing system architecture, implementation, system administration, troubleshooting and operational supporting for an E-Commerce & Logistics website environment
- Proactively improving engineering, implementation and maintenance standards for systems supporting e-Commerce transactions, manufacturing operations and corporate processes.
- Collaborating with peers to formalize systems engineering, application support and operation processes and procedures based on industry standards (ITL, ISO, COBIT) and best practices.
- Investigating and resolving system performance bottlenecks and platform instability
- Providing continuous system and storage capacity management.
- Managing system deployment lifecycle and helping enforce Change Management Policies.
- Engineering and implementing fault tolerant, multi-site and distributed computing platform to support business growth.
- Developing a framework to provide performance baseline and improvement for critical business applications.
- Continuously studying the overall information and computing needs of the company and leverage technology to provide cost effective solutions.
- Elaborating strategy to deliver business value by using evolving infrastructure technology : cloud technology (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, and others), Managed Service Provider, hybrid, etc.
- Assisting in developing, implementing, and enforcing systems security policies and procedures.
- Collaborating with IT Security Team to implement and regularly test systems security controls.
- Assisting with improving and enforcing incident management policies and procedures.
- Assisting with managing system related compliance tasks (PCI).
- Providing third level escalation for operation problems and incidents.
- Resolving issues within prescribed SLA's and adhering to incident management procedures.
- Collaborating with peers on vendor and technology product selection process.
- Performing Linux virtualization implementation, supporting and upgrades.
- Working with application development team and internal clients on creating systems requirements, projection, and growth.
- Supporting enterprise data protection backup / recovery system.
- Acting as engineering liaison between Systems, Application, DBA, QA, Network, and other groups.
- Monitoring technology changes, advancements trends and innovations.
- Project managing change to systems and system deployment to production.
- Managing projects using Workfront portfolio, program, and project management cloud service.
- Coordinating and executing changes thru the change control policy and process.
- Part of On-Call support rotation team with after-hours and weekend balanced work as required.
- Mentoring less experienced team members.
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EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE :
MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related, or foreign equivalent, plus 8 years of related systems administration / engineering experience, or BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related or foreign equivalent, plus Minimum 10 years of related systems administration / engineering experience.
SPECIFIC SKILLS OR OTHER REQUIREMENTS :
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) or Oracle Linux certification preferred,
- DevOps skills with Ansible (preferred) or Puppet
- Strong Scripting Skills (Bash / Shell script or Python)
- VMware Certified Professional preferred, Cisco Data Center (UCS) certification, preferred.
- Microsoft Azure Architect Preferred
- Red Hat 5-7 and Oracle Linux 5-7 (Min 8 yrs)
- Virtualization technology : VMware (vCenter, vSphere 4-6 and ESX 4-6), (Min 4 yrs)
- Linux file systems and storage architecture
- Strong knowledge of TCP / IP, HTML, HTTP, SSL, SSH, SFTP, DNS, Apache, Tomcat and LDAP
- Understanding of database and web application concept and architecture : Oracle, Postgress
- Familiarity with database connection methodologies : ODBC and JDBC, understanding of system and storage design appropriate to support oracle database and Cisco UCS
- IBM v3700 family and Client 3Par 7400, Deep understanding of storage and SAN technology : Virtual disk, LUNs, snapshot, replication and thin provisioning
Added Skills
- SolarWinds NPM, SAM
- Splunk, ELK, Netwitness
- Alert Logic log manager, Rapid 7 threat manager
- Foreman / Katello, Red Hat Satellite
- Unitrends Backup
- Manhattan associates Warehouse management application
- Akamai Ion / Kona / DNS
- Citrix Client's (Netscalar)
- Storage Systems
- Cisco Products- UCS , MDS
- Tomcat, ActiveMQ
- SAS data warehouse
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