Senior Linux Engineer

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Our client requires a Senior Linux Engineer to administer, maintain and develop future upgrades to the Linux infrastructure.

Summary about this job

Engineering - Software

Company: Exclaim IT

Location: ACT

Work type: Contract/Temp

Salary: n\a

Phone: +61-3-8889-9995

Fax: +61-2-4031-2346

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About the Client:

This government department aspires to be Australia's pre-eminent social policy agency. Their mission is to improve the lifetime wellbeing of people and families in Australia.

About the Role:

You will be required to perform duties including, but not limited to:

  • Building new SOE and supporting transition of applications to it where possible.
  • Deploy updates to Linux SOEs
  • Support configuration changes to Linux SOE to support new projects/application that are to be deployed on the Linux SOE.

Key Responsibilities

The successful applicant will have knowledge of and proven skills and experience in the following areas:

  • Experience managing Enterprise Linux servers in virtualized environments
  • Familiarity with the fundamentals of Linux scripting languages
  • Strong experience with Spacewalk
  • Strong grasp on configuration management and deployment tools, including Puppet and Ansible
  • Familiarity with version control, such as git
  • Familiarity with load balancing, firewalls, iptables, etc.
  • Experience with virtualization technologies, such as VMWare
  • Ability to build and monitor services on production servers
  • Knowledge of servers and switches
  • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with good attention to detailing enterprise Linux infrastructure to meet business requirements.

Mandatory Experience and Criteria:

  • You must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting Level 1 security clearance for this role.

You will also have:

  • Demonstrated experience in an enterprise environment working as a Senior Linux Engineer, particularly with RHEL/Oracle Linux 6+, along with integrated and underlying systems including, VMWare and SAN concepts (qualifications desirable, ie RHCE).
  • Demonstrated experience in Linux SOE development. Strategic direction of SOE administration and management improvements.
  • Demonstrated experience working work automation, orchestration and scripting tools such as: Puppet, Spacewalk, Ansible. Knowledge of Shell and/or Python scripting and version control (Git).
  • Demonstrated experience in building and administering database infrastructure running on Linux (Oracle DB and SQL).
  • Demonstrated troubleshooting skills across multiple infrastructure, ie operating system, network, disk, virtualisation.

How to Apply:

To be considered for this role please apply with a Microsoft Word version of your resume.

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