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Unix Engineer

Location:Bangalore (2 days a week in Office)

Duration:6+ months

The IT UNIX Sr engineer role delivers in depth technical DevOps expertise across the full life-cycle, both within IT and across the organization. The role has the project level expertise to plan, review, evaluate, guide and deliver all aspects UNIX/Linux life-cycle management across the enterprise. The role has the technical – hands-on – expertise to design, develop, build and test UNIX/Linux operating system management capabilities including owning incidents to satisfactory resolution. The role reports to the IT Architecture Sr Manager within the IT Infrastructure team.

The role will be operating within a brownfield environment, in parallel to working on projects that will instantiate greenfield solutions and be responsible for transitional activities. The UNIX/Linux operating systems include, but are not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Ubuntu and FreeBSD. It is a heterogeneous environment requiring broad knowledge of external identity providers, hybrid on-premises and cloud hosting (bare-metal, virtualization, Kubernetes, containers) as well as integrations with multiple third-party SaaS, automation, and management tools.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, maintain and support UNIX/Linux operating system CI/CD for bare-metal, ESX virtualization and AMIs.
- Network build and qualify RHEL9 on end-user desktop/workstation hardware including runtimes, modules and a full application stack.
- Physical onsite delivery and installations within labs, infrastructure build and staging environments.
- Engage with internal customers/engineers to seek agreement on operating system builds, deployment, installation, configuration, compliance and implementation.
- Coordinate & collaborate with engineers and subject matter experts across all areas of IT, including Network, Storage/Compute, Hypervisor, Windows, SRE, Application, Infosec, Lab and Project Management.
- Develop infrastructure as code using Unix shell, Python and Perl scripting in conjunction with GitHub.
- Manage automations using AWX, Red Hat Ansible Tower, Foreman and/or Jenkins.
- Research the best products and technologies to meet defined requirements and objectives.
- Produce high and low-level design, workflow, connectivity and procedural documentation.
- Perform in-depth troubleshooting and reverse engineering to support incident/problem tickets.

Qualifications:

- Minimum bachelor’s in a computer science/engineering degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 5+ years experience as a senior UNIX/Linux system administrator across the full life-cycle.
- Working with an outsourcing partner that operate and maintain the infrastructure.
- Strong CI/CD experience GitHub, AWX, Ansible Tower, Foreman and/or Jenkins.
- In-depth UNIX development with shell, python and perl scripting.
- Experience designing, developing, implementing and testing enterprise scale solutions.
- Hands-on implementing multiple infrastructure operational and management solutions.
- All rounded experience of distributed networks, segmentation/firewalls, IP services. (DNS,NTP,DHCP), NFSv3/4, IdM (Authentication/Authorization), SSH, LDAP, SSSD, Kerberos, SAML and Active Directory.
- Knowledge of AWS Cloud Compute, Storage, Networking, Database, Containers, Access Management.
- Knowledge of enterprise cybersecurity standards, frameworks and best practices including operating system hardening control sets.
- Ability to independently solve complex problems with the operating system.
- Taking ownership, being self-sufficient, ability to prioritize workloads and execute daily tasks.
- Strong communication skills – Written and oral.