Linux Engineer (Only W2)

Zyxware Technologies - Providence, RI

Full-time

Hybrid - Providence, RI

About the position

The Linux Engineer will serve as a subject matter expert in Linux engineering, responsible for managing projects and business support requests from initiation to completion. This role involves providing multiple solution approaches, performing engineering tasks, and driving development to implement selected options. The engineer will collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure project goals are met, provide regular status updates, and focus on continuous process improvement and customer satisfaction initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Act as a Linux engineering subject matter expert on various projects and business support requests.
• Provide multiple solution approaches and perform the engineering required to implement selected options.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure project goals are met.
• Provide regular status updates to Store Systems Management.
• Focus on continuous process improvement and customer satisfaction initiatives.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Linux configuration/engineering and scripting.
• Intermediate proficiency in Bash and Python scripting.
• Experience in configuring, installing, and administering Debian-based Ubuntu systems and RHEL.
• Knowledge of hardware management firmware, OOB (iLO), and storage configuration (LVM).
• Experience with KVM Hypervisor virtualization.
• Proficiency in Docker (EE & CE), creating containers, and using Docker-compose; knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker Swarm is a plus.
• Experience in Linux benchmarking and performance testing.
• Familiarity with SystemD and Linux services (NTP, DNS, Squid, NFS, iptables).
• Experience with Linux middleware services such as Apache and MySQL.
• Knowledge of filesystem setup and management.
• Understanding of system security, including MSB, security scanning tools (e.g., Qualys), firewall, and PKI.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with CI/CD using Jenkins pipeline and GIT.
• Familiarity with Ansible.
• Experience in Linux monitoring and alerting.
• Knowledge of server capacity planning.
• Experience implementing high availability (HA) environments.
• Experience with other hypervisor hardware/software.
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud platforms such as OpenShift and OpenStack.