Sr LINUX Systems Engineer

Sr LINUX Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

• IT Operations Support Day to day operations on life-cycle management of on-premises and cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and observability Maintain / establish compliant infrastructure as code (IaC) automation best practices leveraging Terraform and Ansible continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI / CD) pipeline Maintain core infrastructure platform availability and security Be a key active participant in IT change advisory board to advise on production change impact, acceptance, and event management Develop / maintain system and software configuration standards Ensure and validate infrastructure backup and restoration Identify, resolve, and escalate business issues as appropriate Manage internal and external customer relationship Manage after hours and on-call support
• Systems Engineering Support Life-cycle management of IT infrastructure in accordance with company governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) practices and processes Maintain and manage infrastructure key performance indicators (KPIs) for IT business value metrics Maintain and manage secure and compliant infrastructure in accordance with company policies Maintain and manage compute hardening on all support platforms Manage outages, communications, identify root cause and resolve infrastructure within allowed service levels Life-cycle management of documented operational procedures and policies Collaborate with architecture team to refactor technology stack to increase productivity and efficiency Develop and maintain project plans for small to mid-sized systems projects Provide oral and written status reports to IT management and customers

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), VMWare Certified Profession (VCP), and AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional or DevOps Engineer) are a plus
• 7+ years of experience as Linux / Unix systems administrator
• 5+ years of experience with virtualization technology (VMWare)
• 5+ years of experience with programming (Python / shell)
• 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible / Terraform)
• 2+ years of experience with hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• 3+ years of experience with the Citrix Platform
• 3+ years of experience and knowledge with Networking, Storage Area Network (SAN), Microsoft Windows, Directory Services (Microsoft Active Directory / LDAP), Security and Identity (AAA), and Databases
• High impact player.
• Strong interpersonal skills are required. Ability to work effectively with team members, clients, and other areas of the IT environment.
• Strong written and oral communications.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities, strong decision-making skills and make sound judgment decisions.
• Handle multiple tasks and be flexible in a fast-paced environment.
• Deliver on time.
16 days ago