Linux System Engineer in Constanţa

Linux (regular) Ansible (regular) Python (nice to have) ELK (nice to have) Grafana (nice to have) Description of the Position:The Linux engineering team is responsible for the Linux runtime environment. As a member of this global team, you will play a vital part in the strategy and operations of the firm. You will be heavily involved in the hardening of the OS, development and running of deployment tooling, and optimization of the platform for a low latency environment. In addition, you will also be asked to plan and execute the provisioning of new installations and manage the lifecycle/upgrade/patching of the current environment. The preferred candidate is a self-starter and well-rounded professional with strong knowledge in system administration, systems engineering, storage, security, and networking. The candidate should be passionate about technology and eager to work with team members in a fast-paced environment developing solutions supporting business objectives. Job Responsibilities:Engineer, Implement, and maintain the firm’s Linux platform across all business lines. Automate all aspects of the management of this platform.Build and deploy infrastructure, security, and application monitoring tooling. Define and monitor system SLAs, and ensure monitoring alerting and resolution. Recommend capacity management strategies and perform capacity management.Provide assistance to application teams to debug performance/availability issues and provide subject matter expertise to application support teams. Proactively monitor utilization and performance and recommend capacity management strategies. Operate in Infrastructure team config, deployment, software development lifecycle system, and tools.Accurately and completely document the environment and management processes. Plan DR and BCP strategies and participate in implementation. Participate in a weekly on-call rotation to support your environment. There are six people in the rotation, each on-call once every six weeks. What You’ll Bring:Detailed knowledge of the Linux platform, including regular system administration, kernel optimization, OS hardening, and the Linux networking stack. Solid networking skills, and ability to debug networking issues using standard Linux tooling. Good understanding of various storage technologies and SAN/NAS protocols. Demonstrated experience debugging OS issues in a complex business environment. Experience with OS virtualization technologies in a production setting. Strong sense of system hygiene and attention to detail, focused on driving projects to completion. Strong proclivity for automation, including demonstrated experience building automated configuration and deployment tooling for Linux. Experience with Ansible is a must. Demonstrated coding ability, especially in the area of system automation. The preferred language is Python. Detailed understanding of container runtimes, container orchestration experience along production experience, including production environments.Experience in a low latency environment, Kernel network bypass technologies, e.g. Solarflare OpenOnload.Experience with Infrastructure config, deployment, software development lifecycle practices, tools, and change management.Experience deploying and managing infrastructure and application monitoring tools and using those tools to make data-driven operational decisions. (The team uses Prom/Grafana, ELK, and Corologix. Some old installs of Zabbix and Nagios but those are to go away.) Nice-to-Haves: Strong written and oral communication skills.Experience with infrastructure as code preferred