Senior Linux Specialist

Job Title: Senior Linux Specialist

Location: 100% onsite (Houston, Texas)

Duration: 6 months

Responsibilities:

• Support the operation and maintenance of Linux servers, ensuring operational availability & performance, conducting health checks, managing software upgrades, patching (including testing and implementation), system optimization and administration.
• Monitor server health and performance to identify issues, bugs, or potential improvements
• Strict adherence to change management processes to ensure changes are properly planned, documented, and deployed
• Develop, review, and update existing operational documentation (SOPs, application checklists, playbooks, etc)
• Provide after-hours technical support
• Collaborate with the Security Operations Center (SOC) team for process optimization, tool tuning & integration, information sharing, playbook development and incident response
• Implement automated near real-time monitoring of all tools to ensure proper operation and collection of pertinent data
• Incident and Problem Management; including both during and post-incident, along with Root Cause Analysis
• Application support, issue management and escalation
• Perform incident investigation, diagnosis, and resolution
• Perform system monitoring and remediation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting container-based platforms
• SUSE Manager for patching Linux servers
• Red Hat Satellite for patching Linux servers
• Prometheus and Grafana for system performance monitoring
• 5+ yrs of experience

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience installing, administering, and maintaining Oracle or Red Hat Linux based servers
• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing redundant systems including data backups/recoveries, high availability, load balancing, and disaster recovery
• 5+ years of experience designing, analyzing, and repairing large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with deploying and maintaining AWS and on-premises Linux servers
• Experience in application deployment automation, modern DevOps practices, and infrastructure as code
• Experience with IT automation tools such as Ansible Automation Platform, Chef, Puppet, or Terraform
• Knowledgeable of core IT infrastructure technologies including virtualization, networking, and storage management
• Technical documentation skills
• Comfortable interacting with management at various levels in a professional manner
• Takes ownership of areas of responsibility and makes recommendations and decisions on the improvement and operation of those areas
• High level of organizational skills
• Knowledge of and experience with Security Design and Implementation
• Ability to participate in after-hours technical support
• Knowledge of backup and recovery methods and verification
• Knowledge of EMC PowerMax and Isilon storage, including snapshots
• Excellent written and verbal communications
• Ability to work in a fast paced, schedule-driven, and customer-oriented environment
• Experience with Bash, Perl, and Python scripting
• Experience with LVM including online expansion of file systems