Linux System Administrator

Linux System AdministratorTo provide system administration and technical support of all Linux platforms with responsibility for delivering reliable, highly available systems. This will include installation, configuration, monitoring, maintaining and troubleshooting related systems.Responsibilities:Plan and complete system administration, and support application projects and tasks as assigned by line management.Deploy Ansible jobs and roles to standardize the environment.Perform installation, configuration, upgrades and maintenance of environments including the related elements of applications.Perform morning checks and verify environment on a daily basis.Review and clear the job queueProvide support for developers and business users requests and queriesConduct performance monitoring/tuning, and capacity monitoring/planning for all environmentsEnsure that all environment backups are performed successfullyRun and edit scripts to perform and automate regular administration and housekeeping tasksLiaison with hardware maintenance engineers, 3rd party vendors, business users and IT.Perform and assist with the recovery of any systems and applications in annual disaster recovery testsBe proactive in suggesting how technology can be used to improve/enhance business processes to save costs or provide a competitive edgePerform additional duties as assigned by line managementSkills & Experience:The candidate should have work experience running distributed systems and experience with automated provisioning and management of Red Hat Linux infrastructure and services.Experience working with Azure Kubernetes, Podman, and Docker.Excellent experience of Linux Redhat 7 and 8 in a production environmentExcellent experience with MQ within a trading environmentExcellent practical knowledge of Linux Performance Monitoring and Tuning Utilities and CommandsExcellent experience with Redhat integration to Active DirectoryGood knowledge of NIS and NFS and CIFSGood working knowledge of networking protocols.Experience with ProofPoint SMTP and InfoBlox DNS appliancesExperience of Shell Scripting Skills with bash and Perl.Experience working with agile development teams and DevOps