Linux Systems Engineer position

• The Linux Systems Engineering is responsible for making sure the day-to-day support teams have what they need to manage the environment and will assist in troubleshooting issues as needed. 

• Principal Accountabilities: Implements infrastructure technology requested by business units. 

• Engineers technology solutions supporting the infrastructure environments Documents and publish standards for infrastructure technology. Identifies, documents, manages, and resolves issues. Provides root cause analysis. 

• Prioritizes, defines, assigns, validates, and closes routine system requests. Reviews metrics for quality control. Provides technical expertise and advice to programmers and other departments. Provides setup and support for Disaster Recovery environment. 

• Develops and maintains system support procedures and documentation. 

• Creates and manages scripts for Linux management. Monitors and applies patches as required for best practices on all platforms and applications. 

• After-hours support is required for this position. 

Duties as assigned Minimum Requirements: 

• Engineers technology solutions supporting the infrastructure environments 

• Documents and publish standards for infrastructure technology.

• Identifies, documents, manages, and resolves issues. Provides root cause analysis.

• Prioritizes, defines, assigns, validates, and closes routine system requests. 

• Reviews metrics for quality control. 

• Provides technical expertise and advice to programmers and other departments. 

• Provides setup and support for Disaster Recovery environment. 

• Creates and manages scripts for Linux management. 

• Reviews patches for applicability to the environment. Provides patch process for Linux servers to Sustain team. 

• After-hours support is required for this position (escalation only. No on-call rotation). 

• Knowledge of standards in IT engineering and infrastructure Ability to interpret new directions in technology in a way that creates greater clarity for team members Understanding of enterprise platforms and operating systems Ability to design hardware and software builds, systems options, and risks analyses Ability to mentor, supervise and direct the work of lower level staff Command of UNIX operating systems including RHEL6 Experience working with Linux in a virtual environment (KVM, Xen or VMware preferred) Volume management experience

• Experience with utilizing SAN storage Scripting Experience (perl, KSH, etc) Experience supporting web farms with Apache and/or Tomcat Experience supporting application farms with either WebLogic or JBOSS Extensive experience with Red Hats Satellite Server design and deployment Experience with SSL termination and SSL certificates Server and application monitoring Understanding of a multi-tier infrastructure design Ability to work well within a team and corporate environment Ability to analyze and troubleshoot problems effectively as well as provide solutions Ability to respond to 24x7 for production support escalations when required Documentation skills Experience with Change Management, Incident Management and audit compliance for SOX applications Experience supporting Disaster Recovery