Overview
ibex. is looking for a Principal Linux Administrator, with strong Linux, troubleshooting, network and scripting skills, to join our Global Server Operations team. GSO is responsible for developing tools to automate and support the deployment, management, and monitoring of infrastructure. The candidate in this position will take a lead role in supporting and building these highly available and highly scalable solutions that help empower IBEX Facilities to fulfill thousands of users globally!
The ideal candidate for this job has extensive IT knowledge, with previous experience as a Principle Linux Administrator, maintaining and developing solutions in a large-scale environment.
Responsibilities
- Infrastructure Support
- System Tuning and enhancements
- Automation of daily routines
- System Deployment
- Security and Audit Compliance
- Applications scalability
- Application redundancy
- Deep knowledge of Linux system
- Scripting
- Monitoring
- Public Cloud
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 7 to 10 years of Linux experience and minimum 5 years of experience in Private/Public Cloud
- Enterprise Linux - including understanding of kernel tuning and OS monitoring tools.
- Familiar with software project build automation ("make", Maven) and Build and Integration tools (Jenkins).
- Proficient with scripting in Shell (bash, ksh) and Python.
- Working knowledge in an orchestration and configuration management tool (preferably Ansible).
- In-depth knowledge in public cloud (preferably AWS).
- Good understanding in Infrastructure and security services like Load Balancing, Firewall, TLS encryption, disk encryption etc.
- Good architectural experience in component placement for a traditional 3-tier application and microservices-based applications.
- Working experience of Linux Containerized environments (one of "Open Contained Initiative", Docker, CoreOS).
- Extensive experience in "Infrastructure as Code" and automation tools (Terraform, Cloudformation, Azure Templates & DevOps)
- Extensive knowledge and experience in Application Containerization and Kubernetes Clusters. (EKS/AKS, ECS)
- Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques, including bulk application transfers into the cloud.
- Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the needs of the company.
- Lead organization through cloud adoption and establish best practices.
- Familiar with Networking concept on Public/Hybrid Clouds (DirectConnect/ExpressRoute /VPC/VNET,VPC Peering and etc.)
- Familiar with agile methodologies in Operations and Development.
- Able to demonstrate the ability to evaluate / measure work results in the Enterprise context.
- Familiarity with basic Project Management techniques to facilitate resource and workload management.
- Ability to manage difficult (or conflict) situations generated by daily interactions of a wide range of personalities.
- Strong interpersonal skills and team management proficiency.
- Clear vision on strategy, road to success and phases of delivery.
- Working in 24x7 environment.