Urgent requirement for the position of Linux Engineer @ Nyc/NY

Job Title Linux Engineer Project Location Nyc NY Duration 6 months /Contract Skills Required and Job Description: Mode Of Interview :: Telephonic + Skype Need Linux Consultant Responsibilities: Manage alerts and keep track of systems resource usage and monitor automated tasks Provision and validate configuration of bare metal and virtual servers. Remediate when configurations deviate from documented standards. Increase general reliability...

Job Title

Linux Engineer

Project Location

Nyc NY

Duration

6 months /Contract

Skills Required and Job Description:

Mode Of Interview :: Telephonic + Skype

Need Linux Consultant

Responsibilities:

Manage alerts and keep track of systems resource usage and monitor automated tasks

Provision and validate configuration of bare metal and virtual servers. Remediate when configurations deviate from documented standards.

Increase general reliability of our environment by testing documented procedures and submit changes as needed

Automate various system administration tasks

Proactively document tasks that are not automated

Implement and improve the current configuration management infrastructure based on Chef and Ansible.

Interface daily with members of the Technology Infrastructure team and collaborate on team projects

Monitor JIRA ticket queues on a regular basis

Proactive management of our environment, combined with extensive problem identification, ownership, resolution or escalation

Identify hardware issues and interface with manufacturers for remediation

Own resolution of significant system outages, acting as contact person with internal users and external vendors when needed

Support a build infrastructure and Linux workstation environment

Identify improvements that will contribute to increased availability, stability, and performance in our environment

Work closely with development, QA and DevOps teams

Be involved in a follow the sun support model with regional teams (North America, London,

Required Skills

5+ years of experience in a role that involved supporting Linux in an mission-critical enterprise environment

Detailed knowledge of Linux systems (recent versions of RHEL, CentOS)

Familiar with virtualization concepts - hypervisors, guests, containers.

Proficient at operating a Linux system via the command line environment

Fluent in shell scripting - ability to automate daily command-line operations with reliability in mind. Familiarity with Bash is required

Familiar with networking concepts such as IP addressing, routing, firewalling and basic network troubleshooting tools such as netstat, traceroute, telnet.

Familiar with basic security concepts and best practices related to authentication, auditing and access monitoring such as ssh, sudo, syslog

Good working knowledge of software packaging concepts based on RPM and yum

Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

Relevant Skills

Good understanding of configuration management concepts - experience with Chef and/or Ansible would be ideal

Exposure to public and private cloud technologies and services such as Openstack, AWS, etc.

Desire to be exposed to new tools and programming languages such as Ruby and Python

Desire to be exposed to concepts and requirements relevant to the financial industry

Ability to get involved in the technical investigation of issues and proactively assume ownership

Experience in a "continuous deployment" environment including daily change control meetings

Strong ability to own side projects including building or improving in-house tools

Hands-on experience with infrastructure logging, monitoring, and alerting tools

Troubleshooting knowledge of network routing and protocols is beneficial, exposure to packet tracing tools such as tcpdump and Wireshark is ideal

Regards,

Nishant Kumar

Recruiter

RG Talent Inc

39120, Argonaut Way, Suite #157, Fremont, CA 94538

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