Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Skills
Linux
Kernel
OS
Ansible
Admin
Job Details
Title: Linux Platform Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL
Duration: 12 Months
Job Responsibilities:
- Engineer, Implement and maintain the firm s Linux platform across all business lines.
- Automate all aspects of the management of this platform
- Build and deploy infrastructure, security and application monitoring tooling.
- Define and monitor system SLAs, ensure monitoring alerting and resolution.
- Recommend capacity management strategies and perform capacity management
- Provide assistance to application teams to debug performance/availability issues and provide subject matter expertise to application support teams.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support your environment.
- Proactively monitor utilization and performance and recommend capacity management strategies.
- Operate in Infrastructure team config, deployment, software development lifecycle system and tools
- Accurately and completely document the environment and management processes.
- Plan DR and BCP strategies and participate in implementation.
Qualifications:
- Detailed knowledge of the Linux platform, including regular system administration, kernel optimization, OS hardening and the Linux networking stack.
- Solid networking skills, ability to debug networking issues using standard Linux tooling.
- Good understanding of various storage technologies and SAN/NAS protocols.
- Demonstrated experience debugging OS issues in a complex business environment.
- Experience with OS virtualization technologies in a production setting.
- Strong sense of system hygiene and attention to detail, focused to drive projects to completion.
- Strong proclivity for automation, including demonstrated experience building automated configuration and deployment tooling for Linux. Experience with Ansible a must.
- Bias for infrastructure as code.
- Demonstrated coding ability, especially in the area of system automation, preferred language Python.
- Detailed understanding of container runtimes, container orchestration experience along with production experience, including production environments
- Experience in a low latency environments , kernel network bypass technologies e.g. Solarflare OpenOnload
- Experience with Infrastructure config, deployment, software development lifecycle practices, tools, and change management
- Experience deploying and managing infrastructure and application monitoring tools and using those tools to make data driven operational decisions.
- Strong written and oral communication skills
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