*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote*

*We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role*

A prestigious company is looking for a Sr. Linux Administrator/Engineer. This admin/engineer will need 10+ years of heavy Linux experience, along with 4+ years of experience working with DevOps, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Rancher, and Python.

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 (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.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, takes appropriate corrective action and/or interact with IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support, server recovery, and troubleshooting functions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Ten or more years of experience in Linux systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance of physical and virtualized Servers
• 4 or more years of experience in DevOps with Kubernetes
• Python Scripting and Ansible for Automation
• 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
• 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.
• System administration experience and knowledge of VMware and administration of virtual Servers
• Experience with GitHub, Ansible, Jenkins and Terraform tools/applications