Linux Engineer

Linux Engineer

Linux engineer accustomed to working closely with development and QA teams during the development, deployment and support of in-house built applications. Also experienced with the installation, maintenance and upgrade of COTS (commercial off the shelf) applications. An example might be an accounting system or a document management system. Must be collaborative with ability to participate in system architecture, integration and documentation process. Ability to produce implementation/change management plans, concise documentation, diagrams, KB articles and FAQs. Candidate thrives in a fast paced environment requiring server build, package and application deploys and updates. Strong system and application debug and tuning skills. Experience provisioning Linux servers in physical, virtual and containerized environments. Networking, packet capture/analysis, firewall, route, switch experience is a plus. Service monitor and alert development and implementation. Respond to, triage and remediate system alerts. Perform routine system maintenance and participate in on-call rotation.

Technical Experience in the following areas:

• OS: RedHat/CentOS/RockyLinux/Debian required - system deploy (container/vm/physical), hardening, firewall-cmd/iptables, patching (yum/dnf, SpaceWalk/Uyuni), compile and build package from source, user management, sudoers
• Packages: Bind, OpenLDAP, freeRadius, Sendmail, SNMP, NRPE, OCSInv, Samba, NFS, PAM, SSSD, Apache, NGINX, Tomcat, Jetty, Java, Solr, OpenSSL, Let's Encrypt, ssh, rsync, syslog/rsyslog, logrotate, dirvish
• Virtualization: QEMU/KVM, ProxMox, Docker, K8s
• Storage & File Services: LVM, ZFS, NFS, Samba
• Database: Postgresql, MySQL, SQLServer, odbc, freetds, jdbc
• Scripting: Bourne, Bash, C shells, Perl
• Version Control: Gitlab, Github, git
• Language/Package/Module Mgmt: Perl, Python, R, Java
• DevOps: Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab, NPM/PM2, etc
• Monitoring: Nagios/Naemon, NRPE, SNMP, Cacti, Netdata
• Networking: switch, route, firewall, iptables, Linux networking (bridge, vlan, bond, nic), haproxy

Qualifications:

Linux, Ansible, Scripting, Networking, DevOps, Deployment.