Linux Systems Engineer

Job Description

The Global IT Infrastructure Sr. Linux Engineer is responsible for design, development, and implementation of enterprise LINUX Systems and infrastructure

The LINUX team is responsible for analyzing, configuring, testing and implementing of enterprise LINUX infrastructure solution in addition the team is involved in providing assistance with performance and capacity requests as well as incident resolution.

This position collaborates with the Global IT Infrastructure Brand Service Delivery Leaders to ensure an understanding of business cases and to ensure that the appropriate LINUX solution is selected to meet the business need.

This position requires collaboration and coordination with the IT Global Infrastructure Operations organization to plan and support the LINUX infrastructure requirements across multiple platforms.

This position will recommend and oversee approved projects that expand, change, or improve the LINUX systems and related infrastructure.

This role will support cross-departmental collaboration and internal communications with staff throughout the organization, as well as promoting a positive work environment that supports consistency and drives efficiency throughout the organization.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Plan, document, and configure Logical and Physical layouts, including capacity planning and performance tuning.

• Configuration of Logical Volumes across Linux business resilience

• Installation and configuration of Linux servers.

• Installation and configuration of all software packages as needed to support business requirements

• Ability to work with other GIS infrastructure teams for new system implementations

• Provide system support and troubleshooting expertise as needed.

• Maintain patch levels across multiple systems and ships, as needed for security and policy compliance.

• Perform other duties and special projects as required.

• Take part in 24X7 on-call rotation.

POSITION SCOPE:

Responsibilities include the design, installation, configuration, tuning, and optimization of LINUX systems and related components to achieve high availability and performance for various business applications. Supports all LINUX Systems across the fleet and corporate offices.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:

Reports to Supervisor / Manager / Sr. Manager Open Systems Engineering who reports to Director of Enterprise Systems

Experience: Minimum of 7 years’ experience in administration of Linux/Linux operating systems (AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris)

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Expert level configuration and support experience with Linux/Linux

• Experience with RedHat Satellite, Capsule and Proxy.

• Strong LINUX shell scripting experience.

• Linux Security Framework knowledge (PAM, KDC/LDAP, SSH key management, etc)

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in enterprise storage technologies

• Implementation and maintenance of VCS and or Oracle RAC high availability solutions

• Experience with configuration management tools and processes.

• Experience with operating system performance monitoring and tuning.

• Team lead or Project Lead Experience

• Excellent communication, problem solving, and teamwork skills.

• Experience with JBoss, Apache - Tomcat, architecture and administration experience.

• Experience with Memcache, nginx, Subversion, Hudson.

• Experience supporting database server environments ( MySQL, Oracle, Oracle ASM)

• Good understanding of network communication protocols.

• Experience in a Sarbanes Oxley compliant enterprise.

• Experience with BMC Proactive Net, Nagios, or Manage Engine preferred

• Experience with the support of SAN connected hosts and IO multipathing software experience required

• SAN storage experience (EMC, PURE, Dell) preferred

• Experience with the configuration and administration of virtual servers, VMware experience preferred

Physical Demands: Work is primarily sedentary where sitting is required most of the time; walking and standing are required occasionally. Visual acuity is required to perform activities such as: preparing and analyzing data, viewing a computer terminal, reading documents, reports and emails.

Qualifications

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related work experience.

Additional Information

Note : NO OPT, H1 for this position

Client : Infosys