Senior Linux Engineer
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
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Phone: +61-3-8889-9995
Fax: +61-2-4031-2346
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Detail information about job Senior Linux Engineer. Terms and conditions vacancy
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.