Linux System Engineer

Responsibilities

• Install new systems (bare metal and virtual machines), rebuild existing systems and configure hardware with a focus on infrastructure as code and automation.
• OS installation, Trouble shooting and performance troubleshooting and apply patches and upgrades on a regular basis.
• Compile packages from source.
• Develop and maintain configuration management tools and Automation, Python, Bash Scripting,
• Contribute to and maintain system standards.
• Work closely with Software Engineers to develop CI/CD pipelines.
• Research and recommend innovative and automated approaches for system administration tasks.
• Manage security on the systems platform.
• Perform and ensure daily automated backup operations are carried out.
• Apply operating system patches and upgrades on a regular basis.
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Make recommendations for future upgrades.
• Perform basic network Troubleshooting, DNS, MTR, etc.

Requirements

• Linux Guru skillset.
• Configuration management experience (Cfengine, Puppet, Ansible, Bash Scripting etc.)
• Knowledge of tools such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, HAProxy, MinIO, Inet, FreeIPA, Baculum etc.
• Container and Container Orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of Databases, Postgres SQL, MySql etc.
• Knowledge on opensource email platforms such as Zimbra.
• Experience running hybrid environment of on-premises and cloud services (Nutanix, XEN,AWS, Azure).
• Knowledge on storage management, LVM, XFD, BTRFS.
• Knowledge on monitoring tools such as Zabbix.