Sr. Linux Engineer Jobs

Aqueduct Technologies is seeking a full time Senior Linux Engineer for their customer based in Quincy, MA. This position is responsible for assisting with the design, development, deployment, and architecture of the systems and storage infrastructure. The ideal candidate would consider Unix/Linux almost a native language. The core role of the position is ownership of key technical projects while delegating to team members as well as mentoring and assisting in the growth of the department.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Analysis of business and application requirements to determine operating system, storage, memory, and CPU needs for both physical and virtual servers.
• Partake in driving technology advancements and upgrade decisions through sound data and analysis
• Providing professional support to customers, both internal and external.
• Assist with the development, analysis, configuration, and implementation of storage technologies and architectures. This includes both gathering and analysis of the application and end-user storage requirements and IO performance needs to determine the proper RAID levels, storage layouts, and disaster recovery profiles as well as future hardware platforms and their integration into our data centers.
• Documentation of systems and application design and configuration.
• Participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Participate in the annual budgeting process helping to allocate funding for future needs and directions
• Design, development, and deployment of systems within HP Synergy and C7000 Blade Enclosures in addition to discrete server platforms.
• Analysis of performance and user experience metrics gathered by the operations groups to determine the proper application, memory, CPU, and cache optimizations and tuning.
• Assist with the management of all compute technologies including Blade Enclosure and Blade Server firmware, operating system, and application revisions, fault isolation and analysis. Participate with team in evaluation and analysis of new firmware, operating system, and applications revisions
• Help to mature the close relationship between Devops and systems advancing quick and efficient deployment and technology man
• Act as an engineering-level escalation resource to the Network Operations Center and other operations groups to assist with high-level fault analysis and isolation.
• Occasional night and weekend shifts are required to implement changes during designated downtime windows.
• Participation in a structured change management process.
• Maintain, enhance, and deploy new and existing technologies within our testing lab.
• Work closely with other team members on new technology and systems solutions.
• Analysis, configuration, and deployment of high availability
• Assist with the management and evolution of all backup solutions and methodologies such as Veritas NetBackup, database and application backups, storage replication and compute failover. This includes determining end-user and application requirements to analyze and develop backup policies, designing custom backup agent scripts and programs, and determination of backup windows that will effectively back up the necessary data during windows that will not adversely impact application performance during crucial production periods.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience of operating system software RAID (Linux MD, Linux LVM
• Solid grasp of Windows fundamentals.
• Knowledge of programming or scripting language desired.sh, bash, Python or Perl are preferred.
• Solid grasp of Linux/Unix systems.
• Experience with virtualization technologies, VMWare ESXi preferred
• General knowledge of networking protocols required.
• Experience with various block-level technologies such as FC, iSCSI, and SAS is a plus.
• Must be flexible with traveling when needed (3-4 weeks minimum/year)
• 4 - 7 years’ experience required as a Unix/Linux Systems Administrator.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or equivalent combination of training and/or experience required.
• Experience with LDAP preferred.

Aqueduct Technologies, Inc. assists customers in finding top talent for their diverse staffing augmentation needs and providing technical solutions including deployment and support of advanced networking, systems, storage, and collaboration solutions to enable better business results. Aqueduct is one of the fastest growing IT services organization in the US, powered by our relentless pursuit of customer satisfaction, corporate culture, and employing the top 10% in the industry.