Description
Sr. Linux Engineer
Skills: Linux, VMWare, Application Stacks such as Apache/Nginx, Ruby/Rails OR Python/Django, NTP, DNS, DHCP and TCP/IP a protocols and basic networking knowledge
Summary:
This is a 6 month+ contract opportunity! Become an integral part of an award-winning Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) shop headquartered in Midtown Atlanta. This company is dedicated to revolutionizing the way other companies are optimizing their financial supply chains, offering an exciting opportunity to work on products from the ground up in the financial services industry.
What makes this company most unique is the unwavering dedication to their employees. The company's benefits package, including 5 weeks PTO and highly competitive base salary, is just the beginning of the perks. Recognized as one of Atlanta's Best and Brightest Companies to Work For and winner of prestigious industry awards, our client offers a challenging, rewarding, and truly entrepreneurial working environment. They stay true to their unique Corporate Values, as it has bred a team of highly intelligent IT professionals with the desire to work with cutting edge technology, while enjoying a flexible work culture.
Our client is seeking a Sr. Linux Engineer who will be responsible for the configuration, management, maintenance and installation and support of both existing and new Servers, system upgrades, patch management and resolving software or hardware related problems.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain development and production environments using systems/network diagram, ie provision storage, VMs, network, deploy & configure OS, 3rd party software and applications
- Provide expert level support for network, storage, Linux and Windows environment in a physical, virtual and cloud (AWS) setting
- Support software releases through code deployment in production and development environments
- Implement IT goals such as HA via configuration of HA tools, monitoring and proactive resolution of issues, data availability by backups and restores etc.
- Patch systems and software on a regular basis including that of VMWare, Ubuntu, PostgreSQL and other software in-use
- Document standards, implementation procedures, and troubleshooting processes
- Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks
Qualifications:
- 10+ Experience in IT industry
- Expert level VMWare expertise, Amazon Web Services (AWS) exposure is a huge plus
- Enterprise & Expert level administration of Linux (any flavor) and related application such as Apache/Nginx, Ruby/Rails stack or Python/Django etc., basically any LAMP or LAMP-like stack is REQUIRED
- Expert knowledge on NTP, DNS, DHCP and TCP/IP
- Chef and/or Ruby knowledge is a huge plus
- Strong work ethic with the ability to complete tasks and deliverables under tight deadlines while maintaining flexibility
Benefits:
As an Agile consultant, you'll gain many of the advantages and benefits of being a direct hire, while experiencing the flexibility of consulting. It's the best of both worlds! Our IT consultants enjoy a wide array of benefits including: medical, dental, 401K, Employee Assistance Program and more.