UNIX Linux Platform Engineer (Hybrid)
A.C. Coy
Overview
- Tier One Technologies is seeking a Sr. UNIX/Linux Platform Engineer to join a team of qualified, diverse individuals.
- This hybrid position will be located in Eagan, MN.
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Responsibilities
- Demonstrate a passion for improving processes, eliminating waste in workflows and enjoying the technical challenges in a dynamic environment.
- Provide direction, communication and coordination between the infrastructure support teams and the applications development team(s) in their continuous deployment activities.
- Ensure that there are never repetitive tasks, and that the infrastructure is kept up to date as the stack evolves.
- As processes change and the need grows, automate as much as possible to accelerate work so the platforms infrastructure teams can deliver products earlier, consistently and more reliably.
- Build automation into daily processes, including server builds, patching, and configuration analysis.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Associated discipline preferred.
- 10+ years of Systems Administration experience. Additional experience may be substituted for degree.
- 7+ years of experience in Systems Administration of Solaris or SUSE Linux systems in a large scale production environment.
- Solid background in Linux/Unix Administration and troubleshooting O/S (SLES,RHEL) as well as Lifecycle activities. (Build, Patching, Decommission).
- Strong experience with Ansible and/or Ansible Tower (AWX).
- Experience in working and configuring open-source enterprise technologies to automate.
- Strong experience with additional automation/configuration management tools (Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, or an equivalent)
- Fluency in multiple scripting languages (Python, Perl, Ruby or equivalent)
- Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services.
- Integration of Git, in continuous deployment.
- Strong experience with DevOps automation tools like Docker, Ansible.
- Experience with DevOps monitoring tools like Nagios, Splunk.
- Experience with Jenkins and Add-on Plugins like Jenkins DSL plugin and more.
- Strong knowledge of Red Hat OPEN SHIFT, Puppet, Ansible, Ansible Tower and VMWare/vSphere.
- Familiarity with IT service level agreements and performance monitoring, tuning, debugging (e.g., GTF traces, and region and transaction dumps) and process/product testing and verification.
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
- Excellent communication and customer support skills.
- Must be able to obtain a Position of Public Trust Clearance.
- Must be US Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder), and not have traveled outside the US for a combined total of 6 months or more in last 5 years.
- Must have resided in the US for the last 5 years.