Lead Engineer

About Land O'Lakes:

Land O'Lakes, Inc. is a 100-year-old farmer owned cooperative originally formed with the purpose of working together to create new market opportunities for dairy producers. Our journey began in 1921, when 320 dairy farmers met in St. Paul, Minnesota, to form the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Association. Their idea was simple: join together to effectively market and distribute members' dairy production across the country. Today, our four businesses give us a farmer-to-fork view of agriculture. Paired with our co-op ownership model, we're uniquely qualified to fulfill our purpose of feeding human progress.

Be a part of a Fortune 500, $17 billion farmer-owned cooperative that is actively shaping the food and agriculture industry for the better. Join us in solving some of the world's most important food challenges

• This position will be part of a talented team that is responsible for the growth, on going maintenance and development of a large-scale server farm running primarily on Linux infrastructure.
• Provide support for complex system and applications, Rolling out new systems, maintaining, migrating, upgrading and improving the long-term performance of the systems.
• Perform as a high level member of the systems administration team to support the installation, optimization, configuration, integration, troubleshooting, backup, recovery and upgrading of Linux infrastructure and components to provide services that enable customers to effectively apply IT to business requirements.
• The ideal candidate must be a self-starter with strong work habits and have high-level career experience in deploying and maintaining large numbers of UNIX/Linux servers.
• Have knowledge of tools and mechanisms for distributing new or upgraded software to ensure customers receive current versions of supported software, as they become available.
• Proven hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and maintaining Oracle Linux KVM hosts and clusters, including installation of Oracle Linux 8.x or later and enabling required repositories.
• AIX server and Legacy servers – configuration management, capacity management and BCP planning and execution and troubleshooting/maintenance and administration.
• Shall be able to work with other senior staff to recommend and design systems architecture and topology from both general and specific perspectives.
• Provide hands-on support during, major activities, Patch and Vulnerability management and high priority or critical cases (including weekends).
• Knowledge with storage administration (NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, NAS/SAN, etc.).
• Proven experience in VMWARE running large scale Virtualized environments. managing VMware virtual and container infrastructure.
• Extensive experience migrating virtual machines between hypervisors, including planning and executing migrations from VMware to KVM (preferably Oracle KVM)
• Support local and remote engineering teams with UNIX / Linux related issues & escalations.
• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, BIND, LDAP and other core technologies such as Sendmail, NTP, TCP/IP, FCIP, iSCSI, SAN, NAS etc.
• Demonstrate a high degree of proficiency with Ansible automating Linux system administration tasks, including configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration of services.
• Experience in resolving complex issues related to Break-fix Performance tuning and deployments.
• Extensive troubleshooting skills with Linux, network in complex App and DB environments (OEM).
• Strong understanding of network and server security/ Cisco / UCS etc.
• Creating and updating Runbooks, documentation.
• Good communication skills / positive attitude.
• Proficient in Word, Excel.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or equivalent experience in IT/DC management.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in engineering and design capacities.
• Deep Understanding of UNIX/Linux Fundamentals and concepts.
• In Depth knowledge of RHCE, VSphere ESXi, KVM, and AIX.
• Extensive System Administration experience with Red Hat and other Linux flavors.
• Knowledge of server log tools.
• Experience in Install, upgrade, maintain and troubleshooting of RedHat based servers.
• Strong scripting skills in Shell, Python and Perl scripting for automating admin roles.
• Knowledge of ServiceNow/ITSM to handle Incident/Change/Problem management.
• Practical experience evaluating vulnerability assessments and offering remediation recommendations in compliance with Land O'Lakes policy
• Experience managing vulnerability and patch processes for Linux/Unix systems.
• Experience deploying automation technologies like Ansible.
• Working experience with managing NIS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, NFS, AUTOFS, WEB and Database environments including Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Red Hat Certifications.
• Customer Service Experience.