Job Title: Senior Linux Engineer
Location: Cleveland, OH (Hybrid Schedule)
Compensation: Up to 125k
RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy & Planning
- Perform analysis of the organization's business needs, translate a line of business requirements into use cases, design and implement services for automating system delivery.
- Develop, deploy, and maintain Linux delivery catalog.
- Implement service-level standards and practices for Linux deployments.
- Participate in the development of standards and decisions regarding changes to systems/applications. Provide technical leadership and vision.
- Identify open-source tools, languages, and technologies for accelerating system delivery by leveraging automation and infrastructure orchestration techniques.
- Define methods and practices for executing change management policies in medium-scale server environments.
- Develop practices and processes for applying security controls into the continuous integration lifecycle.
- Analyze new emerging technologies in the Configuration Management space and translate the functionality of the new technology into an effective IT vision and strategy
- Keep up-to-date on business trends and the latest technology innovations to forecast solutions, and anticipate emerging business changes
- Collaborate with other technologists across the enterprise to assess current capabilities and bridge the gaps with legacy and future systems.
Acquisition & Deployment
- Participate in and support capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for Linux systems and software in conjunction with application developers.
- Advanced server scripting abilities using Bash Shell, Perl, and/or Python.
- Engage in the planning, design, development, and effectuation of improvements with a focus on simplification and optimization of processes.
- Meet with clients, peers, and decision-makers to define business requirements and system goals, and identify and resolve business systems issues.
Operational Management
- Administer/support the policies, procedures, and technologies (including firewalls) to ensure Linux system security through secure system access, monitoring, control, and routine security evaluations.
- Participate in standard configuration, management, and maintenance tasks for related file systems, input/output systems, networking, clustering, storage, and applications.
- Implement, perform and test application high availability solutions to meet required levels of application availability.
- Implement, perform and test application disaster recovery solutions to meet required levels of application recoverability.
- Work with the team to anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware and software problems on all Linux systems.
- Collaborate and support application development teams throughout project lifecycles.
- Implement effective system monitoring.
- Design, gain approval for, and execute modifications to Linux systems in order to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance.
- Ensure secure user access and role validation processes.
- Perform Linux server/database transaction and security audits leading to the identification and mitigation of security threats to enterprise data. Recommend and implement changes where necessary.
- Create required reports in response to business user needs.
- Develop, document, and maintain Linux system training materials and systems documentation for educating end users and new IT staff.
- Mentor and/or provide guidance to junior members of the team.
- Participate in capacity planning and performance management activities.
Incidental Functions
- Assist with other projects as may be required to contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the work.
- Attend, and periodically lead meetings with the team.
- Participate in hiring activities and fulfilling affirmative action obligations and ensuring compliance with the equal employment opportunity policy.
- Assist with Change Management preparations and implementations, providing technical subject matter expertise.
- Provide periodic 24-7 on-call support of specific functions.
- Some travel may be required
- Working outside the standard office 7.5 hours workday may be required; on-call availability.
QUALIFICATIONS
Formal Education & Certification
- Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Technology field of study (e.g., Information Technology, Electronics, and Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Systems Management, Mathematics) or equivalent experience.
Knowledge & Experience
- 5+ years of IT experience
- 5+ years of experience designing and deploying Linux-based virtualization systems (VMWare, OVM, XEN, or other experience preferred).
- Experience deploying applications, databases, and virtualization services.
- Experience performing Linux security vulnerability detection and remediation (Qualys preferred).
- Understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, and network concepts.
- Understanding of automation and deployment tools (Puppet, Chef, Ruby, Jenkins, GIT, Python, Shell scripting, or similar).
Preferred Experience
- Experience applying practices to storage administration.
- Experience implementing Linux server hardening and security practices. Experience implementing PCI and HIPPA compliance standards preferred.
- Experience implementing ITIL-based service catalog for Linux platforms.
- Software development experience.
- Working knowledge of database technologies (Oracle clustering and ASM, MongoDB, Mysql, and/or DB2).
- Systems Administration experience.
- Understanding of container technology
Personal Attributes
- Strong and comprehensive verbal and written communication.
- Responsive and alert to new learning opportunities, growth, and development of technical, interpersonal, and business skills; able to recognize and address areas needing improvement.
- Motivated and competent to contribute appropriate time and effort to work needing attention.
- Attentive to detail with a focus on accurate and timely results.
- Organized and able to prioritize tasks, responding effectively to competing needs.
- Attentive and reactive to customer needs and concerns.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong customer service orientation.
- Able to contribute to team effort and individual achievement.
- Strong commitment to inclusion and diversity.
Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status now or in the future.
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