Linux Systems Engineer II

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work in tandem with our engineering team to direct the design, implementation, testing, debugging, and drive innovative solutions to solve complex technical or business problems leveraging our combined on-premises and cloud-based environments.
• Define and document (SOP) best practices and strategies.
• Lead in the administration and support of open source infrastructure technologies.
• Serve as escalation point for Linux and AWS technological stack.
• Ensure compliance of information assurance policies, concepts, and measures
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• Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to Data Dimensions teams to build cloud and open source toolset competencies.
• Create, tune, and optimize automation across AWS and on-premise infrastructure technologies.
• Ensure the deployed environments performance, uptime, and scale while maintaining high standards for quality and thoughtful design.
• Manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines.
• Collaborate with interdepartmental project team members on all aspects of development, particularly as it concerns documentation, customer satisfaction, performance, and security requirements.
• Utilize outstanding problem-solving skills and attention-to-detail to participate in the analysis and design of integrated solutions and problem management.
• Support changes and enhancements from development through product deployment.
• Track and support multiple simultaneous activities.
• Provide effective communication regarding issues, objectives, initiatives, and status of assigned activities.
• Implements best practice procedures for Linux, Microsoft, VMWare and Network architecture design, development, implementation, maintenance, support, and documentation.
• Architects, designs, and builds systems infrastructure to support business needs.
• Develops project plans for the implementation of systems infrastructure and executes the project.
• Provides consulting services both internal and external to the organization.
• Provides customer service to the business and production teams.
• Collaborates with IT and business groups as needed.
• Works with Infrastructure team to maintain data center operations.
• Administration, design, and architecture of; Linux, LVM, MAAS, Ceph, Microsoft, Active Directory
• Participate in programming, scripting, and process automation.
• Provides on-call escalated support on a scheduled basis and fills gaps in coverage.
• Create and Manage systems reports & monitoring agents; perform data collection of performance metrics, analyze system health and status, set monitoring thresholds and automated alerts.
• Creates and maintains server infrastructure documentation and diagrams.
• Required to attend mandatory meetings and trainings, work scheduled overtime with minimal notice, and perform other duties as assigned per business needs.

Qualification Requirements –

 To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following:

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Able to read, write and speak English.
• Successfully pass and maintain acceptable background checks and security clearances.
• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university plus 8 years of related experience and or/training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Five or more years of direct experience in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud and on-prem solutions for Linux and AWS platforms.
• Knowledge of architecting Linux and  AWS environments for dynamic scalability and high availability.
• Five or more years of experience administrating enterprise Linux distributions Ubuntu (preferred) or RHEL.
• Experience with open source storage technologies such as; Ceph, LVM, and MAAS
• 5 years of experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible (preferred).
• Working knowledge of Atlassian (Jira) software highly preferred.
• Service-oriented mentality.
• Self-motivated and self-directed with the ability to function independently and part of a team.
• Attentiveness to deadlines, priorities, and timely completion of daily work.
• Above-average organizational skills and attention to details.
• Conscientiousness and accuracy in record-keeping and documentation.
• Expertise in performing multiple tasks at the same time without errors.
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of management and employees.
• Strong written & verbal communication skills.
• Superior project management – Must effectively develop and manage project plans identifying all tasks, timelines, and resource staffing needed to meet project deadlines. Ensure project remains on timeline track and within budget managing delays and resolving problems.
• Expert time management skills.
• Ability to proactively and successfully track/support multiple simultaneous activities.
• Excellent research and technical writing skills.
• Ability to construct project plans and implement work breakdown structures.
• Ability to document processes and build procedural documentation.
• Travel as required.

Certificates and Licenses:

• AWS Cloud Practitioner minimum, AWS Associate or higher preferred
• RHCE, Linux , Networking , Security preferred but not required.

Computer Skills:

• Linux engineering and architecture. Ubuntu preferred
• AWS Services Implementation
• Open Source Enterprise Storage
• Cloud and On Premise Networking
• Bash, PowerShell
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server Architecture including Active Directory.
• Strong knowledge of SAN and NAS technology.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise backup solutions, Veeam preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Enterprise Monitoring platforms. SolarWinds preferred.
• Knowledge of network communications technologies and troubleshooting communications with Linux and Microsoft Systems.