Senior Linux Engineer at Content+Cloud

Description

Content + Cloud are looking for a Senior Linux Engineer with a passion for providing great customer service to join the team. The role will involve providing proactive and reactive Linux services to our customers.

A strong communicator with a flexible, positive outlook and willingness to learn will thrive in this fast paced and rewarding environment. Solid Linux Administration experience and understanding of Azure technologies is key for this role alongside a willingness to learn new technologies.

Requirements

• Take ownership of duties or requests allocated and professionally manage them through to completion or escalation

• Contribute fully as an active team member and ensure personal and team objectives are achieved

• Collaborate with other teams to maintain standards and functionality

• Maintain a professional relationship with clients

• Utilise excellent customer service skills and exceed customers’ expectations

• Report potential client facing risks

• Report customer feedback and potential product request

• Maintain your own personal development plan with support from your manager

• Collaborate with other teams to maintain standards and functionality

• Undertake any other tasks as assigned by management

• Availability during your shift hours (which may incur shift & desk rotation) if applicable

Duties and Responsibilities

• To be responsible for monitoring activity and ensuring that logs, storage growth, replication, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are in place and functioning correctly

• Monitor and manage the environment ensuring high availability is maintained at all times

• Ensure that any issues related to HA/DR processes (Clustering, log shipping and transactional replication) are investigated and resolved

• Assist with 2nd and 3rd line incidents and requests logged with the Linux and Azure team

• Investigate and resolve server and platform performance issues

• Liaise with external vendors in the planning, implementation and support of 3rd party software solutions

• Ensure that security and permissions are managed according to best practices

• Take an active role in improving the Linux and Azure estate

• Ensure that the documentation set is updated and expanded where necessary

• Perform Linux Server patching, upgrades and migrations

• Take an active role in developing and improving event and security monitoring capability

• Liaise, collaborate and actively contribute to Event and Security alerts on the Linux platform

Experience and qualifications

• Proven experience in development and production Linux Administration roles.

• Working experience with Azure

In-depth experience of the following technologies:

• LVM

• User Management / General 'guest administration'

• Apache / nginx

• Programming (e.g. Python, C, Bash)

• Principles of redundant networking (e.g. high-availability, NLB etc.)

• Principles of PAM / JIT

• Principles of cryptography (e.g. SSL / TLS offload, certificate chaining and P

• Azure Networking (management and provisioning of NSGs and ASGs)

• PowerShell

Sound exposure to the following technologies:

• Docker

• Elasticsearch

• Gluster FS

• Cassandra

• Apache Spark

• Distributed database (large / enterprise scale)

• Desirable knowledge of the following technologies:

• Promethesus

• Grafana

• Kubernetes

• Kibana

Skilled in problem resolution and management

Benefits

• Salary dependent on experience

• Role based out of our Century City offices (currently working remotely)

• 40 hours per week (Monday – Friday)

• 20 days’ annual leave

• Multiple HIIT, general fitness, yoga and meditation classes run virtually each week! (In addition to other wellness events and other social activities...)

• Continual professional development plans