Unix Engineer - SR.

Job Title: Unix Engineer - SR.
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Santa Clara, CA 2625 Augustine Drive

Skills required:

• 5+ years of work experience in the system administration field.
• Proven record and experience of configuring, managing both manual (bare metal) and automated environments, including patching, upgrading and re-configuring.
• Deploy, configure and manage OpenStack environments (manual and automated using Ansible, Fuel, or Kolla).
• Perform upgrades across OpenStack releases. Provision storage backends (Ceph, Cinder volumes) and image repositories.
• Install, configure, maintain, and optimize Linux/Windows servers and systems to ensure high availability and performance.
• Monitor system performance and proactively troubleshoot issues to maintain operational reliability.
• Experience in managing and optimizing public cloud infrastructure AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform Experience in virtualization technologies like Vmware, VCF, KVM, OpenShift virtualization, Kubernetes
• Implement security measures, including hardening, patch management, and vulnerability mitigation.
• Working knowledge of networking protocols and services (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SSH, HTTP, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with enterprise servers Hands-on experience with enterprise storage technologies such as Fibre Channel zoning, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, and platforms like NetApp, Pure, or PowerStore. Knowledge of identity/auth systems (e.g. LDAP/AD) and storage solutions (LVM, SAN, NFS).
• Document system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps clearly and consistently.
• Collaborate with other teams to deploy and support applications and infrastructure. Experience with using automation tools AWX, Ansible, Shell scripting
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work independently with minimal guidance.

Nice to have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Certifications such as RHCSA, RHCE, CKA, Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA)
• Proficiency in DevOps tools Design, develop, and deploy AI agents to automate workflows, perform data-driven tasks