Sr. Linux Systems Engineer
Raleigh, NC area.
Remote until summertime.
Ongoing contract, or contract to hire if the candidate prefers.
Summary of Role
- 75% - Project work – examples of projects right now: (1) implementing tool (Ansible – automation tool – patching Linux servers) / (2) Disaster Recovery / (3) building servers for finance
- 25% - Operation tasks – tickets for access, server reboots, server builds of new servers / on-call 1 week every 4/6 weeks – low call volume – 2-3 times a week most
Ideal Candidate
- High level Linux engineer – we do NOT want someone that is operationally focused, we need a true engineer that can handle/lead projects
- They will own the Ansible tool, but if they don’t have experience with that a competitor like Puppet / chef would be OK too
- Should have experience with RedHat
- Doesn’t have to be from a global company, but needs to have enterprise experience
- From a company that has change management – no cowboys.
Minimum work experience
- 5-8 experience in highly available data center operations
Value Proposition
- Own the anisble tool
- We are working with modern/current technologies
- They will get exposed to Azure
Skills Required
- Highly organized and have clear, concise communication skills
- Ability to function in a Global organization with a flexible and dynamic team environment
- Experienced in the design, implementation and management of Enterprise Infrastructures and Systems including: Solaris and Linux (Redhat, CentOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and other variants of Linux)
- Experience with Server deployment and automation technologies/techniques via OEM and RHEL Satellite, and Orchestration Tools such as Ansible.
- Experience with general Unix Technologies such as Samba, SNMP, NTP, PAM, SSH, Sendmail, NFS, CIFS, LVM, ZFS, Shell scripting, Patching (YUM, IPS), RPM package management, SUDO, Multipath, SFTP, DNS, SAN/NAS principles including hands on FC and iSCSI
- Experience with SAN (ZFS, Exadata, NETAPP, EMC, HP)
Essential Functions
- Escalation point for regional and global technical issues from junior team members and IT team
- Mentor junior staff members to promote standardization and project initiatives.
- Monitors and maintains Systems and Services
- Investigates and resolves problems, inefficiencies, and performance issues
- Evaluates, tests, and recommends solutions
- Implementation of Systems and ensures quality standards
- Required to participate in an on-call rotation - 1 week every 4/6 weeks
Education
- Degree in a relevant technical area or equivalent work experience