*We are unable to sponsor for this permanent Full time role*

*Position is bonus eligible*

Prestigious Financial Company is currently seeking a Senior Linux DevOps Engineer. Candidate will be responsible for design and support of core platform engineering automation. This role will drive the strategy for infrastructure automation and be charged to improve application adoption, reduce overall operational support, and increase end-user usability of our platform services. Candidate will provide team leadership required to support a large, complex Architect L3 Linux based computing environment and an increasing transition to Linux infrastructure in AWS. Assist in driving infrastructure as code mentality throughout the organization and demonstrate a passion for automation concepts and tools.

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.

Qualifications:

Hands-on experience with: Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Kafka, Github, and configuration management tools such as Ansible.

Relevant experience with configuration and implementation of IaaS, Infrastructure as code, AWS, Azure, etc.

Extensive knowledge of Linux operating systems, Linux shells and standard utilities, and common Linux security tools at L3 level

In depth system administration knowledge and skills for RedHat Linux.

Technical Skills:

Kubernetes Experience - Strong knowledge in Kubernetes deployment frameworks/platforms including Helm, Docker, Rancher, OpenShift, EKS.

Linux Experience: 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.

Cloud Experience - Strong knowledge of secure cloud infrastructure design and components, such as: Servers, operating systems, networks, IAM, and storage. Cloud Certifications, specifically AWS Cloud certification would be preferred.

Infra Automation - Expert knowledge in core automation development toolchain including Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, Harness.

CICD Experience - Mastery of CICD best practices in a large organization. (GitOps/DevOps, secure builds, secure code promotion, deployments (Harness/Argo), automated testing (app and infra), integration of policy frameworks, cost-optimization, SLSA best practices)

Resilient Design - Experience with architecting, implementing and maintaining highly available mission critical environments for 24/7 availability.