Linux Systems Engineer

Linux Systems EngineerLocations: Owings Mills, MD 21117 OR Baltimore, MD 21202 OR Philadelphia, PA 19103 OR New York, NY 10003 OR Colorado Springs, CO 80920 OR San Francisco, CA 94104Duration: 12 + MonthsOnsite: Day 1: Hybrid Mode: 2 - 3 Days Onsite! Please note that this position is subject to Covid vaccination requirements.This manager sits in the UK. They will also need to use their own device to connect via citrix. The job summary below was written up by the manager.Top Requirements:Linux, automation, and engineering away support (engineering mindset)Job Description - Linux Systems Engineer, AutomationContractor with excellent Linux skills to help support our growing development community on a Linux Developer Desktop offering. Primary skills: Fluent in Linux / Active Directory and Kerberos / Developer tooling / Citrix / Ansible / NFS and Prometheus and Grafana. Focused on engineering away support, engineering automation: single click rebuilds, service discovery, improve observability and reliability of linux VDI offering. You need to know Linux really well to diagnose kerberos, AD or NFS issues and you need to know developer tooling to know how best to design things so that the tools can be managed, yet still work as though they aren't being managed. You need to have an engineering mindset to fix issues with the developer desktop at source and bake config into the next VDI image ready for roll-out - updating base image config, testing and shipping. Write good support documentation, FAQs, populate Question2Answer type offerings so the dev community we support can self-serve. Providing an awesome developer experience is of paramount importance for this role.Comments:Ubuntu knowledge, Citrix knowledge, VDIs, Networking knowledge, Git pipelines, CICD, Docker