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UNIX Engineer - 100% Remote

NEW YORK-10018, NY, US
02/23/2021

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Required Skills

VMware

Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

8 to 10 Year(s)

Job Description

This role will provide technical solutions, advanced administration, troubleshooting and operational excellence in a complex Unix environment comprised mostly of virtual Servers.

You must have the ability to jump into any problem and troubleshoot beginning to end, regardless of what the issue is. You’ll seek to automate wherever possible to improve efficiency and support Infrastructure as a Service, promote best practices, manage and maintain a complex Open Systems environment.

Responsibilities:

Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a global Unix team while maintaining Technology, Security and Control Standards.
Seek out continual improvements with current automation for long term support.
Build new Salt States as needs and requirements are presented.
Utilize GitLab for version control and storage of scripts/code and documentation.
Ability to analyze, determine root cause and resolve extensive range of complicated problems.
Follow-up and coordinate changes involving hardware, software, networking and applications.
Provision, configure and monitor servers via Foreman. Publish and promote content views.
Work with other systems engineers to define solutions that will best satisfy the business need.
Configure and support Foreman for Package management of Unix Systems.
Determine solutions for recurring and/or complex issues.
Work on new environment deployments, datacenter server consolidation, site decommission which includes server migration and virtualization of current environment.
Qualifications:

Computer science, engineering, or equivalent degree.
8-10 years of relevant experience supporting UNIX systems.
Extensive experience in open systems server hardware and software installation, configuration, troubleshooting, problem resolution and root cause analysis.
Great understanding of system log analysis, tcpdump, network traces and Wireshark review, etc
Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
Have a decent understanding of other domains such as network, storage, middleware, etc.
Knowledge of ITIL best practices (Incident, change, and problem management).
Strong expertise with production and application support in mixed environments.
In-depth knowledge of standard methodologies around Unix/VMware/Storage/Backup.
Experience with Unix scripting and automation with tools like Python, Ansible and Salt.
Familiar with system monitoring and telemetry. Ability to validate the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes, including reviewing system and application logs, and monitoring capacities.