Description

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, configure, and support Linux-based systems and environments.
• Build, manage, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Maintain and optimize Kubernetes clusters, including deployment, scaling, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Support system integration efforts across infrastructure, applications, and platform services.
• Configure and manage Linux networking, including routing, firewall rules, and related security controls.
• Administer and troubleshoot IPTables and other Linux firewall technologies.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure reliable and secure platform operations.
• Create and maintain clear, accurate technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and system diagrams.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Ensure systems follow operational, security, and compliance standards.

Required Skills:

• Bash/Python scripting – at least intermediate
• Configure/Install/Admin - Debian based (Ubuntu) systems and RHEL
• Hardware management – firmware, OOB (iLO), storage configuration (LVM)
• KVM Hypervisor virtualization
• Docker (EE & CE), create containers, docker-compose (Kubernetes, docker swarm is a plus)
• Linux Benchmarking, Performance Testing
• SystemD and Linux services (NTP, DNS, Squid, NFS, iptables)
• Linux middleware services Apache, MySQL
• Filesystem setup and management
• System Security i.e. MSB, security scanning tools (e.g. Qualys), firewall, PKI
• Working Knowledge of k3S (Kubernetes) clusters deployed in rancher/fleet environments at the edge and in cloud
• Strong technical documentation skills

Preferred Skills:

• CI/CD  - Jenkins pipeline, GIT
• Ansible
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools is a plus.
• Server Capacity Planning
• Experience implementing HA environments
• Experience with other Hypervisor hardware/software (Nutanix, Vmware Esxi)
• Experience in Hybrid Cloud Platforms i.e OpenShift, OpenStack

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree