*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote*

A prestigious company is looking for an Associate Principal, Linux Administration. This role will focus on operational support and system administration of Linux environments. This position will require experience with Linux, AWS, Vmware, Redhat, Ansible/Puppet/Terraform, etc. MUST HAVE TERRAFORM, REDHAT, KUBERNETES, AND ANSIBLE EXPERIENCE.

Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced system administration, operational support and problem resolution for a large complex Linux computing environment, including both virtualized and physical Servers.
• Create and Patch AMIs, perform pull requests, write Automation code using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.
• Perform Linux administration including changes, deletes, disk space management, application installation and support.
• Use your infrastructure and networking knowledge to maintain cloud-based infrastructure (predominantly on AWS) involving EC2, S3, RDS & VPC.
• Use configuration management tools (primarily Ansible and Terraform) to build and maintain a hybrid infrastructure hosted both at colocation facilities and in the public cloud.
• Run proof of concept projects on early stage infrastructure improvements to validate the feasibility of an approach, evaluate performance, and spike an implementation.
• Review and evaluate virtual and physical server performance and capacity .
• Forecast system demands and recommends upgrades, expansions and reconfigurations.
• Perform automated computing environment builds, site setup, user training, hardware/software installation, maintenance and support and documentation of operating procedures and processes
• Support VMware environment including changes, adding/removing systems, and disk space management.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Six or more years of experience in Linux systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance of physical and virtualized Servers
• Two or more years of experience in DevOps
• Extensive knowledge of Linux operating systems, Linux shells and standard utilities, and common Linux security tools
• In depth system administration knowledge and skills for RedHat Linux. Knowledge of Amazon Linux is a plus.
• Experience with using Github or other version control tools for source code management
• Experience using configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible and container tools such as Docker, and KUBERNETES.
• Ability to write and maintain automation code and scripts and IaaS/Infrastructure as code, such as Terraform
• Experience with DevOps activities and using CICD pipeline software to deploy code
• Working knowledge of cloud components and services in AWS or Azure.