Sysadmin DevOps

Introduction

The infrastructure running industries likes transportation, energy, insurance, banking or healthcare is quickly changing as the world’s relationship with technology evolves. Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. Our Infrastructure Specialists are responsible for keeping up with these latest and greatest of these changes and using their expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers and products.

Your Role and Responsibilities

We’re looking for a talented system administrator to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for the setup and maintenance of hundreds of servers. You’ll be working with intelligent, global distributed team. You will have an opportunity to see the whole lifecycle of providing services for a large community project. We expect you to be a careful person who notices important details.
- Create Ansible playbooks and maintain useful written information about our infrastructure
- Care and feeding of hundreds of physical machines including purchasing as we need to replace EOL machines
- Support internal customers by resolving incident and service requests
- Coordinate with members of the global Storage Engineering team
- Participate in continuous improvement
- Lead / Mentor other team members

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Great troubleshooting and debugging skills and a passion for problem solving
- Advanced experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, or Fedora
- Experience with hybrid cloud technologies, e.g., OpenShift, OpenStack, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Experience with tools like Ansible, Bash, Python, Git
- Experience with enterprise data center operations and monitoring
- Ability to work in a geographically distributed team
- Willingness to embrace challenge with a positive attitude and a solid customer focus
- Outstanding written and verbal English communication skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

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