InfiCare Staffing

Sr. Linux / UNIX Platform Engineer

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InfiCare has been providing Contingent Staffing and Direct Hire staffing services to its clients across the US and in four continents Since XX01. Starting from a modest beginning in X001, today we service clients ranging from Fortune X0X companies to medium sized businesses as well as small niche firms. In US we are based at Dulles, VA. We are hiring (Sr. Linux / UNIX Platform Engineer) at Eagan, MN/Hybrid for one of our clients. If you are interested in this position, you can revert to my email or call me at X0X-6X2-7X67

Duration: X+ Months

Location work will be performed: Eagan, MN/Hybrid

Job Title: Sr. Linux / UNIX Platform Engineer

We are seeking a UNIX / Linux Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Eagan, MN. This is an on-site position with no telecommute possibilities. Hybrid remote work may be allowed but expect to be on-site X-X days/wk.

The perfect candidate must have a passion for improving process, eliminating waste in workflows and enjoy the technical challenges in a dynamic environment. Provides direction, communication and coordination between the infrastructure support teams and the applications development team(s) in their continuous deployment activities. The Engineer ensures that there are never repetitive tasks and that the infrastructure is kept up to date as the stack evolves. As processes change and the need grows, the Engineer automates as much as possible to accelerate work so the platforms infrastructure teams can deliver products earlier, consistently and more reliably.

The ideal candidate will have the following skill sets in addition to the basic qualifications:

  • Very strong background in Linux/Unix Administration and troubleshooting O/S (SLES,RHEL) as well as Lifecycle activities. (Build, Patching, Decommission)
  • Strong experience with Ansible and/or Ansible Tower (AWX)
  • Experience in working and configuring open-source enterprise technologies to automate.
  • Strong experience with additional automation/configuration management tools (Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, or an equivalent)
  • Fluency in multiple scripting languages (Python, Perl, Ruby or equivalent)
  • Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services
  • Integration of Git, in continuous deployment
  • Strong experience with DevOps automation tools like Docker, Ansible.
  • Experience with DevOps monitoring tools like Nagios, Splunk.
  • Experience with Jenkins and Add-on Plugins like Jenkins DSL plugin and more.
  • Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service

Job Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or associated discipline preferred and a minimum of XX years of Systems Administration experience. Additional experience may be substituted for degree.
  • Seven years of experience in Systems Administration of Solaris or SuSE Linux systems in a large scale production environment
  • Knowledge of the following product support practices and concepts:
  • Linux system build design and administration
  • Scripting languages (e.g. bash, ksh, perl, python, ruby, etc )
  • IT service level agreements
  • Performance monitoring, tuning, and debugging (e.g., GTF traces, and region and transaction dumps)
  • Process/product testing and verification
  • Knowledge of one or more IT platforms or products:
  • Red Hat OPEN SHIFT
  • Puppet
  • Ansible, Ansible Tower
  • VMWare/vSphere
  • Build automation into daily processes, including server builds, patching, and configuration analysis.
  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type

    Full-time
  • Job function

    Engineering and Information Technology
  • Industries

    Staffing and Recruiting

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