Senior Linux Server Migration Engineer

Senior Linux Server Migration Engineer

Experience : 12-14+ years must

Location: - Salt Lake City, UT- Onsite

Duration: 12 Months (Possible extension)

Visa : Any visa is fine expect CPT and OPT

Description:

Local candidates preferred.

Job Description - Linux Infrastructure / Server Migration Engineer

Day to Day Job Duties:

Own and engineer the Linux compute platform during large-scale server and data center migration initiatives, ensuring platform stability, security, availability, and performance throughout all phases of migration.

Plan, coordinate, and execute end-to-end server migrations from source data centers to target environments, including physical servers, VMware ESXi hosts, and virtual machines.

Manage and migrate VMware ESXi and vSphere environments, including VM provisioning, host configuration, vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS, HA, and cold migration activities.

Execute physical-to-virtual (P2V), virtual-to-virtual (V2V), and site-to-site migration activities while minimizing business and service disruption.

Configure, troubleshoot, and migrate iSCSI storage environments, including connectivity, multipathing, CHAP authentication, storage-path validation, and performance troubleshooting.

Manage Logical Volume Manager (LVM) configurations during migration activities, including volume-group export and import, logical-volume resizing, snapshots, migration activities, and filesystem-integrity validation.

Develop, maintain, and enhance automation scripts and tooling to streamline migration activities, infrastructure administration, validation, and repeatable operational workflows.

Develop and execute detailed migration runbooks, implementation procedures, rollback plans, validation checklists, and post-migration verification activities.

Collaborate with internal clients, infrastructure teams, application teams, storage teams, network teams, and partner engineering teams to assess migration readiness and resolve technical dependencies.

Troubleshoot complex Linux, virtualization, storage, networking, and application infrastructure issues during migration and post-migration stabilization.

Develop technical solutions and improvements to enhance infrastructure reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Manage and optimize virtualization and containerized infrastructure environments using VMware, OpenShift CNV, Kubernetes, and related technologies.

Contribute to integration and support of modern infrastructure platforms including Kubernetes, OpenShift, and OpenStack.

Participate in the development and implementation of CI/CD pipelines supporting infrastructure automation and deployment activities.

Use Bash, Python, and other scripting technologies to automate infrastructure provisioning, migration, validation, and operational tasks.

Monitor infrastructure performance and system health and implement proactive tuning and optimization as required.

Support networking activities involving TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, firewalls, and connectivity troubleshooting.

Ensure infrastructure engineering and migration activities comply with applicable security standards, controls, and organizational requirements.

Participate in change, implementation, validation, and production-support activities associated with infrastructure migration initiatives.

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum 4+ years of experience supporting large-scale data center or server migration initiatives, including P2V, V2V, and/or site-to-site migrations.

Minimum 4+ years of experience working with Linux-based compute environments, including Linux operating-system administration and OS internals.

Minimum 4+ years of experience with VMware ESXi and vSphere, including host builds, VM provisioning, vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS, and HA.

Minimum 4+ years of experience working with iSCSI storage networking, including connectivity, multipathing, configuration, and troubleshooting.

Minimum 4+ years of experience with Logical Volume Manager (LVM), including volume management, snapshots, resizing, export/import activities, and migration.

Minimum 4+ years of experience with networking concepts including TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, firewalls, and network troubleshooting.

Minimum 4+ years of experience working with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Docker.

Minimum 4+ years of experience with CI/CD and development tools such as Git, Maven, and Jenkins.

Minimum 4+ years of experience using scripting languages such as Bash and Python for infrastructure automation, administration, and troubleshooting.

Experience developing and executing server migration runbooks, implementation plans, rollback procedures, and validation checklists.

Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues involving Linux, virtualization, storage, networking, and application dependencies.

Experience collaborating with infrastructure, engineering, application, network, storage, and other cross-functional technical teams.

Experience monitoring and optimizing Linux and virtualization platforms for reliability, performance, and scalability.

Understanding of infrastructure security practices and compliance requirements.

Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Travel:

Not specified in the source job description.

Degree:

Bachelor's degree in a Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field, with a minimum of 4+ years of relevant hands-on experience.

Nice to Have: (But not a must)

Experience with additional scripting or programming languages such as Python, Node.js, Perl, or Go.

Experience developing or integrating REST APIs.

Experience with migration technologies such as VMware vCenter Converter, Zerto, or Veeam.

Experience working with relational and NoSQL database platforms.

Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Familiarity with security technologies and practices including encryption, OAuth, and LDAP.

Experience with infrastructure configuration-management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.

Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK Stack.

Experience with OpenStack and OpenShift CNV.

Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and problem-resolution capabilities.