Linux Engineer

Key Areas of Responsibilities

- Proactively maintain and develop all Linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24x7 service

- Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments

- Provide L1,L2,L3 level server support similar to current team

- Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on servers

- Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks

- Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment

- Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes

- Provide weekend support on scheduled weekend changes

- Provide on-call support during off hours if needed

- Participate in Disaster Recovery and BCP drills

- Manage Physical server infrastructure using remote access

- Manage and maintain virtual machines in internal ESX farm as well as in AWS

- Build new physical and virtual servers as per standards

- Fault finding, analysis and of logging information for reporting of performance exceptions

- Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning

- Knowledge on servers installed with cluster software and databases

Requirements

- Degree in IT/Computer Science or related discipline(s)

- Around 8-10 years working experience as a Linux Administrator
Less experienced (5-8yrs) candidates could considered as Sr. Infra Analyst

- Previous working experience with VMWare Tanzu/Kubernetes etc. deployed in internal infra.

- In-depth knowledge of Linux: RedHat both physical and virtual environment

- Hands on experience with physical/VM server deployments and commissioning

- Experience / knowledge on various HPE or other server hardware and architecture

- Strong problem solving and communication skills

- MS Windows OS knowledge will be added advantage

Originally posted on Himalayas