Linux Engineer

Job description:

• Responsible for ongoing vulnerability management by coordinating and deploying patches and server rebuilds throughout the estate.
• Responsible for operational support and maintenance of 5,000+ servers located globally, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux with some Solaris. This includes server builds, monitoring, configuration and ongoing maintenance of servers.
• Perform system administration duties across the environment to provide support services for customer.
• Perform system recoveries.
• Maintain server availability for all sites and periodically participate in DR exercises.
• Must have good problem solving, teamwork, communication and customer service skills.
• Resolve help desk escalations and process items in a ticket queue.
• Troubleshoot and resolve system issues and provide operations support for bridge calls.  
• Participate in the implementation of UNIX related projects for server builds.
• Monitor servers and remediate alerts that get raised.
• Being able to follow documented processes and procedures is critical.
• English language skills & good clear communication is an absolute must.

Qualifications:

• RHEL 5/6/7
• TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, LDAP, FTP, NTP, Samba
• Knowledge of kickstart/jumpstart
• Security and performance monitoring and analysis
• Virtualization (VMware and/or RHEV)
• HPOV tool suite (monitoring software experience)
• Veritas products: VxVM, VxFS, VCS and VVR
• Experience with Puppet and shell scripting; Perl or python is a plus.
• Server hardware (HP ProLiant, DELL)
• Knowledge of private/public cloud technologies (OpenShift/Kubernetes/Docker/AWS/Azure)
• Conceptual knowledge of storage and networking components
• Degree preferred