Position: Linux Administrator
Company: Luxoft
Experience required: 3y
Category: Sysadmin
English level: upper
Published: 2021-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

About the project: We are looking to expand our team with a Senior Linux Server Engineer. Successful candidate will become a part of a client team responsible for all aspects of the Linux Server estate across the client's organization
About our team: Rapidly expanding group developing and supporting a range of client projects.
About working environment: Our team primary locations are Kiev, Warsaw. We are working remotely in client environment. Currently the team operates fully in WFH mode.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for managing, maintaining, enhancing *nix related technologies across the estate
• Part of a team providing 24x7 *nix support internationally with a drive towards automation
• Implementation of automated solutions adhering to the strategic goals within the department
• Project delivery

Primary responsibilities:

• Take part in the team rota including on-call and weekend working
• Deliver against team BAU responsibilities
• Identify savings across project & BAU activities to be implemented through automation involving a process flow of Service Now -> AWX -> Ansible / scripting
• Ensure that all project/investment related workloads are delivered according to plans and defined budgets
• Support customer requirements through ticket-based task management as well as implementation of automation

Secondary responsibilities:

• Take part in daily health and compliance checks for all Production systems as required
• Ensure all Linux/Unix systems are backed up successfully and any issues are promptly resolved
• Validate monitoring alerts are detected promptly and satisfactorily resolved
• Ensure sufficient capacity is available to accommodate projected BAU & project growth
• Respond to emails sent to the team distribution list in a timely manner.
• Handle incidents and requests with efficiency and a "customer first" mindset
• Maintain Linux platforms in a highly available, reliable, secure and performant manner
• General maintenance activities
• Provide technical support to application support and development teams
• Provide consultancy to application support and development teams
• Execute disaster recovery procedures when necessary and take part in regular DR tests
• Ensure patches and security updates are applied as per defined policies
• Maintain all operational procedures to ensure they are current and accurate
• Take part in On-Call & weekend work rotation; triaging and addressing production issues as they arise
• Identify cost saving and optimisation opportunities across the group.
• Build strong working relationships across the organisation
• Adhere to the core values of the bank.
Mandatory Skills Description:
Essential:

• Red Hat and Solaris in-depth - including system internals and kernel tuning.
• Red Hat Satellite
• Ansible
• AWX
• REST API integration
• Scripting
• CI/CD pipelines and other automation concepts
• Dev/Ops mentality
• Git or other source code control software
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• Security hardening principles in line with CIS industry benchmarks.
• Excellent knowledge of networking, storage, database and virtualization layers.
• Good working knowledge of Python, Perl and Bash scripting.
• Clustering and high-availability technologies
• Replication and disaster recovery.
• Security and auditing.
• Excellent knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX.
• TCP/IP Networking Protocols.
Nice-to-Have Skills:
Highly desirable:

• Service Now automation /integration
• Good working knowledge of GitHub, Subversion and TeamCity
• CyberArk
• Splunk and QRadar
• Qualys
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• Salt Stack.
• VxVM and VxFS.
• NFS and CIFS.
• Understanding of DNS
• ESX VMWare
• Nutanix HCI.
• EMC and HDS storage arrays.
• EMC Networker, Data Domain and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

Desirable:

• IBM Tivoli and Netcool
• Active Directory, LDAP and Kerberos
• BMC Control-M
• SharePoint, JIRA and Confluence.
• Working knowledge of cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle.
Languages:
English: B2 Upper Intermediate