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Job Description:

***CANDIDATES MUST HAVE STARTED THEIR CAREER AS LINUX ENGINEERS OR LINUX ADMINISTRATORS AND EVOLVED INTO DEVOPS.

The role is really a DevOps person with strong Ansible and Kubernetes automation. However, they must have started as a Linux engineer.

Azure is their cloud and is greatly preferred

Key is developing automation in Ansible and not just support.

Working in Enterprise Systems Group, the Senior Systems Engineer will be responsible for the design, development, automate, test and maintain Linux servers and Openshift container Platform both on-prem and in the cloud. This role will be responsible for acting as both an individual contributor and an integrator, working together with team members and technologies required to fulfil projects and technical requirements. In addition, the role will require high level of skills to troubleshoot, support and maintain on-prem Enterprise Systems Infrastructure and Cloud Automation Services used by the Bank.

The Engineer works individually or in a team on various projects related to Red Hat Linux, VMware, Openshift Cloud Platform, Azure Cloud and Enterprise Infrastructure and Security related work. Supervises and provides technical guidance to the staff in the Operations and Systems Engineering and Administration group, verifies the work of other systems administrators. Reports to the Manager, Enterprise Systems. Has no direct/indirect reports.
This role focuses on day-to-day operations execution while applying technical expertise to diverse and unique work situations.

Responsibilities:

• Works closely with architecture, engineering and security to implement new products and upgrade existing infrastructure.
• Prepares, installs and implements operating software and associated components.
• Plans, prepares and applies maintenance fixes to system software and firmware as required.
• Debugs and solves problems associated with Unix and Linux servers in production and test environments.
• Works on architecture and engineering and security projects to secure Linux or AIX operating system deployment in production.
• Assists in evaluating new hardware and software and develops creative solutions to complex technological challenges.
• Develops and maintains scripts to automate tasks and deployment.
• Develops test plans for implementing new software or new releases of software.
• Tunes system software for peak performance and availability.
• Provides end users and developers with support including off shift and on call support.
• Provides technical training for information technology personnel as needed.
• Tests and implements hardware and software upgrades and if necessary works off shift to implement changes with minimal downtime.
• Maintains Linux Unix disaster recovery plan and actively participates in technology and business recovery activities.
• Discover opportunities and help facilitate a mechanism to change, evolve, improve, and simplify the infrastructure and supporting processes/procedures.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years specialized experience in Unix/Linux systems engineering and administration.
• Operating System management and related components
• Install, configure and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, Red Hat Satellite.
• Write and maintain automation and infrastructure-as-code, leveraging Ansible/Terraform/Azure DevOps and other approved corporate automation and orchestration platforms.
• Assist with migrations to cloud, ensuring best practices are followed and architecture is compliant with company standards.
• Participate in the implementation of monitoring systems, for event monitoring, alerting and metrics.
• Expert level in troubleshooting and support of Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Satellite
• Automation and DevOps
• Experience with writing scripts using Bash
• Experience using Git for code management
• Familiar with AzureDevOps /GitHub for code management and pipelines
• Experience with Ansible/Ansible Automation Platform/Ansible Tower
• Familiar with Terraform
• Education: Required: High School or Equivalent, Preferred: BA / BS (or equivalent experience), Degree in computer science or a related discipline.
• Strong organizational skills with ability to set priorities and manage multiple projects.
• Results oriented, exhibits excellent judgment, and has relentlessly high standards.
• High degree of initiative and sense of urgency, flexibility, adaptability and comfort with ambiguity as needs change on a regular basis.