Senior Systems Lead, Linux/Unix Engineer

Senior Systems Lead, Linux/Unix Engineer

Winston Salem, NC

Full Time

Notes: Employees in this position must be available to work occasional weekends and off hours as needed and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation. Employees are expected to work in the Winston-Salem, NC office 2-3 days per week.

Position summary: Senior-level UNIX/Linux (RHEL & AIX) Engineer with experience building, supporting and maintaining large scale server infrastructures in 24X7 production environment.

Qualifications required:

• Bachelor s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in Linux and UNIX Server installation, upgrade, configuration, troubleshooting, and support
• AWS experience focusing on using or creating EC2, Lambda, VPC and Service groups
• Cloud fundamentals, Cloud infrastructure provisioning, Cloud design Pattern
• Working knowledge of AWS Simple Storage Service, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Management Console and/or AWS CLI
• Extensive experience with RHEL 7.x & 8.x on x86_64 and IBM Power, ESX and VMWare
• Strong understanding of IBM Power platforms, AIX 7.x, in-depth knowledge of LPAR s, HMC s and VIO Servers
• In-depth knowledge of Logical Volume Manager on RHEL and AIX
• Strong understanding of SAN (IBM and EMC), TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP/Active Directory and firewalls
• Strong knowledge of data backup solutions Networker and Avamar
• Strong understanding of creating and managing virtual machines on Power and VMware
• Implementation of LDAP, Active Directory and DNS
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including MC Projects, Word, Excel and Outlook
• Excellent Verbal and written communication skills
• Professional demeanor and be able to effectively work cross-functionally within the organization

Qualifications desired:

• Experience with virtualization platforms (AWS), IBM Power and VMware
• Experience with VMware virtualization including VLANs and virtual networking
• Ability to think outside the box in troubleshooting and resolving advanced issues
• Cloud/AWS experience and knowledge highly desirable
• Scripting knowledge
• Knowledge of third-party tools for monitoring and performance

Essential functions and responsibilities:

• Server Operating System - design and implementation of Linux and UNIX Server platforms
• Establish, implement, & maintain standards devise and maintain server build process, hardening, firmware revisions and driver versions
• Collaborate with IT Security to implement and maintain RHEL and AIX hardening standards
• Infrastructure Management Tools help integrate RHEL and AIX servers into existing management tools (monitoring tools, anti-virus, FIM)
• Responsible for security patch validation
• Server Contingency Design & Testing - contribute to TCH DR/BCP efforts
• Comply with TCH Change Control standards
• Test upgrades of all server components - hardware, O/S, drivers, firmware, microcode, patches
• Create and/or maintain Server documentation and Procedural documentation
• Audit & Compliance - test and implement security settings to ensure server compliance with security and audit requirements; familiarity with industry standards such as PCI, ISO, etc. is desired
• Work with Operations and Architecture teams to maintain current environment and plan future environments