Infrastructure Engineering Senior Engineer

Minimum of 5 years of progressively growing responsibilities experience in Linux OS Engineering and automation, with firm understanding of two or more of the mainstream Linux distributions.

Work Requirements:

Requires knowledge of the following technologies:

• Working knowledge of

  Ansible

  and

  Ansible Automation Platform

  .

• Bourne Shell scripting

  .
• One or more higher-level languages, such as

  Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, Groovy

  , etc., to understand maintainability and other software engineering principles.
• Knowledge of at least

  2 different Linux distributions

  .
• Working knowledge of

  Kubernetes

  , with

  Openshift

  experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of at least one

  Pipeline tool

  , such as

  Tekton, Jenkins, CircleCI

  , etc.
• Understanding of

  code testing

  and

  test-driven development

  .
• Understanding of

  virtualization

  (such as VMware, Openshift, etc.) and server hardware (such as

  HPE, Dell, SuperMicro

  , etc.) manageability technologies.

Profile Description:

This Consultant-level Infrastructure Engineer would be responsible for automating, building, and operating IT hardware and software resources in on-prem, cloud, or hybrid scenarios in support of internal customer needs. Responsible for planning, configuring, and maintaining servers and the base operating systems, creating and optimizing virtualized environments, default agents, and providing observability and reliability metrics.

This consultant-level Infrastructure Engineer would be responsible for automating, building and operating IT hardware and software resources in on-prem, cloud, or hybrid scenarios in support of internal customer needs. They are responsible for a wide variety of activities that orchestrate operations of Linux-based IT Infrastructure development, such as automation of administrative tasks across large fleets of servers, capacity planning for workloads, configuring and securing the base operating systems, creating, improving, and providing metrics, observability analytics, installing and maintaining security and manageability agents, etc. They would also use cloud and other off-prem offerings to automate integration with cost-efficient solutions such as storage-as-a-service, containers, and Kubernetes that operate the required workloads.

Job Responsibilities:

• Automate the creation and testing of Linux Server templates for virtual machines and physical hardware using a

  Jenkins

  and

  Tekton CI/CD pipelines

  .
• Automate the installation, upgrade, and configuration of

  Linux Operating Systems

  (Suse, Redhat, Ubuntu) on on-prem and cloud infrastructure using tools such as

  Terraform, Ansible, Bourne Shell, and PowerShell

  .
• Automate manual processes associated with infrastructure deployment via

  GitOps

  and infrastructure-as-code.
• Manage

  security requirements

  , performance optimizations, and technical direction for the Linux Server Operating Systems.
• Provide

  L3 Engineering support

  to Operations teams for all aspects of the Linux Server Operating Systems.
• Provide

  cross-team support

  for deploying infrastructure to multiple target environments, including on-prem, plant, and cloud.