- Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote*
- We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role*
A prestigious company is looking for a Sr. Linux Administrator / Engineer. This admin / engineer will need 10+ years of heavy Linux experience, along with 4+ years of experience working with DevOps, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Rancher, and Python.
Responsibilities :
- Provide advanced system administration, operational support and problem resolution for a large complex Linux computing environment, including both virtualized and physical Servers.
- Create and Patch AMIs, perform pull requests, write Automation code using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.
- Perform Linux administration including changes, deletes, disk space management, application installation and support.
- Use your infrastructure and networking knowledge to maintain cloud-based infrastructure (predominantly on AWS) involving EC2, S3, RDS & VPC.
- Use configuration management tools (Ansible and Terraform) to build and maintain a hybrid infrastructure hosted both at colocation facilities and in the public cloud.
- Run proof of concept projects on early-stage infrastructure improvements to validate the feasibility of an approach, evaluate performance, and spike an implementation.
- Review and evaluate virtual and physical server performance and capacity
- Forecast system demands and recommends upgrades, expansions and reconfigurations.
- Perform automated computing environment builds, site setup, user training, hardware / software installation, maintenance and support and documentation of operating procedures and processes
- Support VMware environment including changes, adding / removing systems, and disk space management.
- Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, takes appropriate corrective action and / or interact with IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support, server recovery, and troubleshooting functions.
Qualifications :
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Ten or more years of experience in Linux systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance of physical and virtualized Servers
- 4 or more years of experience in DevOps with Kubernetes
- Python Scripting and Ansible for Automation
- Extensive knowledge of Linux operating systems, Linux shells and standard utilities, and common Linux security tools
- In depth system administration knowledge and skills for RedHat Linux. Knowledge of Amazon Linux is a plus.
- Experience with using Github or other version control tools for source code management
- Experience using configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible and container tools such as Docker
- Ability to write and maintain automation code and scripts and IaaS / Infrastructure as code, such as Terraform
- Experience with DevOps activities and using CICD pipeline software to deploy code
- Working knowledge of cloud components and services in AWS or Azure.
- System administration experience and knowledge of VMware and administration of virtual Servers
- Experience with GitHub, Ansible, Jenkins and Terraform tools / applications
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