Linux Administrator

Title: Linux Administrator

Type: Perm

Location: Los Angeles (Onsite 5 days a week)

Must Have: Tanzu and Kubernetes

Overall responsibilities are the following:

• Manage configurations, deployment, and support of Linux systems and containers in production and lower environments.
• Management, install, upgrade, and support server applications on Linux systems.
• Development of automation scripts for routine tasks.
• Deploy and maintain systems using state configuration tools such as Terraform and other tools.
• Perform infrastructure needs assessment and evaluate new technology to improve and maintain program infrastructure.
• Day-to-day analysis and support for troubleshooting applications and operating systems, general recurring maintenance, and server installations.
• Recommend appropriate actions to improve operations. Recommend and design new systems/software as appropriate.
• Implement server patches on a scheduled or as needed basis.
• Engage external vendors when needed to solve problems or bugs.
• Act as a member of the Infrastructure Team by providing monitoring, investigation, and ongoing support to help maintain the Google cloud environment, Linux systems, and storage.
• Ensure proper integration of vendor engineering solutions into the overall terminal engineering documentation.
• Ensure SLAs are met on a daily basis.
• Collaborate with the regional platform business analyst to identify opportunities to modernize, streamline and standardize the terminal tech portfolio.
• Participates in the development of root cause analysis for major incidents impacting the terminal operations and ensure identified countermeasures are deployed as planned.
• With the Terminal IT Infrastructure head, define the terminal Tech portfolio modernization, infrastructure simplification and applications rationalization

Preferred qualifications:

• Education – University or higher vocational degree and certification in Control Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline is preferred.
• Experience – Minimum five (5) years of Technology Infrastructure - Systems, experience is preferred.
• Operational Technology hardware and integration experience is preferred.
• Skills – the following are strongly recommended/critical:
• Experience with Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.)
• experience with Shell scripting, VMWare, VSphere administration.
• Experience with containerization.
• Experience with Hyperconverged infrastructure stack.
• Understanding of messaging frameworks, application stacks.
• Experience working with desired state configuration tools.
• Working experience with Kubernetes.
• Application lifecycle and IT Service Management concepts.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to effectively document technical designs and solutions.

A reasonable, good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum Pay Rate for this position is $140k/Annum to $160k/Annum.