Sr.Linux Engineer

Job #: 6151
Pay Rate: Not Specified
Job type: contractor
Location: Huston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Participates as a member of and leads operations teams. Performs analysis of complex functional and business requirements. Prepares SOP and process documents for others. Completes code to implement solutions for Linux infrastructure applications. Designs solutions for Linux Infrastructure services. Participates in cross-functional teams. Leads design activities. May provide mentoring and guidance to other peers and operations staff. Represents team to clients/customers.
• Demonstrates technical leadership and exerts influence outside of the immediate team. Develops innovative team solutions to complex problems. Contributes to strategic direction for teams.
• Applies in-depth or broad technical knowledge to provide maintenance solutions across one or more technology areas.
• Performs solution design. Applies the company and 3rd party technologies and leads the design of highly complex infrastructure and software solutions.
• Independently implements end-user or enterprise infrastructure or services of significant complexity.
• Integrates technical expertise and business understanding to create superior solutions for the company and customers. Mentors and consults with team members and other organizations, customers, and vendors on complex issues.

Education and Experience Required:

• Typically, a technical bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 10 years of related experience or a master's degree and a minimum of 8 years of experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• 10 or more years of experience with REHL, CentOS, HPUX (Standard and Virtualization), and more.
• Advanced understanding of SaltStack automation, server patching, and SecOps (server hardening).
• Advanced understanding of VMware vRealize Automation and Ansible Automation.
• Advanced understanding of Linux infrastructure and application architecture from design through implementation and support.
• Advanced understanding of Syslog solutions such as Kiwi, Splunk, Greylog, etc.
• Experience with middleware and clustering technologies such as Service Guard, Veritas Clustering, Apache, Tomcat, Java, etc.
• Advanced understanding of SAP, Oracle RAC, Mongo, Maria, and Cassandra DB types and interactions relating to performance and OS/storage troubleshooting.
• Advanced understanding of LDAP, Samba, SSH, BASH, AUTOFS, NFS, etc.
• General Project Management. Customer/Vendor Management. Business Analysis.
• Advanced experience with RCA (root cause analysis).