Skills
- Manager of Linux Systems Administration
Job Description
***We are unable to sponsor for this permanent full-time role**
***Position is bonus eligible***
Prestigious Financial Company is currently seeking a Manager of Linux Systems Administration. Candidate will lead a team highly talented LINUX engineers to facilitate the administration of the computing environment. Provide team leadership required to support a large, complex Linux based computing environment and an increasing transition to infrastructure in Cloud. Assist in driving “infrastructure as code” mentality throughout the organization and demonstrate a passion for automation concepts and tools. Provide mentoring and direction to the team on DevOps and automation. Utilize customer service skills while acting as a technical resource to internal departments and system users.
Responsibilities:
- Manage day to day operations of highly virtualized Linux compute infrastructure
- Provide status reporting (availability, performance capacity utilization)
- Create and maintain process & policy documentation
- Drive automation of Linux systems
- Develop Linux server team to align with the future technology roadmap.
- Forecast System demands and recommend upgrades, expansions and reconfiguration
- Resource planning
- Provide input into strategic compute infrastructure plans and help drive alignment with application teams, security and business
- Collaborate with application support teams to drive improvements in communication, architecture, and performance
- Act as a liaison for customer relations and represent server teams
- Manage enterprise server environment related projects
- Lead audit and security responsibilities that include routine reviews and reporting of technology policies and security compliance
- Ensure all server systems comply with regulatory requirements
- Work with auditors to remediate and closeout all remediation, regulatory, and audit findings
- Draft proposals to tackle technology challenges and work with vendors to provide best solution at optimal cost
- Responsible for change management process for server infrastructure
- Use good judgment and escalate when necessary and keep management informed
- Performance Management and development of the team members
Qualifications:
- Excellent communication and people management skills
- Ability to work effectively with clients, technical staff, consultants and vendors
- Ability to work well under pressure and within deadlines
- Experience with disaster recovery testing and creating technical/process documentation
- Ability to communicate well and manage a team located in multiple cities
- Good consultative, communication, analytical, and judgment skills
- Strong background in Compute (LINUX) administration
- Working knowledge of Virtualization and Storage infrastructure
- Working knowledge and experience in Cloud Infrastructure
- LINUX Systems (Redhat and Amazon linux)
- EMC storage
- VMWare virtualization
- Cloud technologies (AWS)
- CI/CD (Terraform, Jenkins, Artifactory, Github)
- Automation (Ansible, Python)
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related discipline
- Minimum 7 years of experience in Compute (LINUX) administration
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Cloud technologies and CI/CD technologies
- Minimum 3 years of experience in managing people and leading projects.
- Experience in a regulated / financial industry a plus