Linux System Engineer....Only Full Time

Visionary Innovative Technology Solutions LLC; Texas; In loco; USD 140.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Visionary Innovative Technology Solutions LLC is seeking a senior Platform Reliability Engineer to lead Oracle Linux administration, monitoring, and performance tuning in a large-scale enterprise. You will oversee Linux server design, HA configurations, capacity planning, and automation initiatives to enhance reliability and efficiency.

The role focuses on building self-healing systems, implementing SRE principles with SLIs/SLOs, and mentoring SRE teams to improve deployment pipelines and

Competenze

• Extensive experience with Oracle Linux in enterprise environments.
• Strong automation and configuration management skills using Ansible and Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles including SLIs/SLOs.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading cross-functional teams.

Mansioni

• Lead the administration, monitoring, and performance tuning of Oracle Linux environments.
• Oversee design, build, and lifecycle management of Linux servers, including storage and virtualization.
• Manage high availability configurations, clustering, and load-balanced environments.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, and system scalability initiatives.
• Define and implement SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce enterprise security standards and patch management.

Conoscenze

Bash scripting

Shell scripting

Ansible

Azure DevOps

Linux administration

SRE

High availability

Performance tuning

Monitoring

Automation

Leadership

Strumenti

Oracle Linux

LVM

NFS

Descrizione del lavoro

Job Summary

Lead the administration monitoring and performance tuning of Oracle Linux environments with a focus on platform architecture automation and reliability engineering

Job Description

• Lead the administration, monitoring, and performance tuning of Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) environments in a large-scale enterprise ecosystem.
• Oversee the design, build, and lifecycle management of Linux servers, including storage, virtualization, and associated infrastructure.
• Manage high availability (HA) configurations, clustering, and load-balanced environments to ensure minimal downtime.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, and system scalability initiatives.
• Define and implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Lead infrastructure automation initiatives using tools such as Ansible and Azure DevOps.
• Build and maintain self-healing systems to reduce manual intervention and improve system resilience.
• Develop automation for system installation, configuration, and deployment pipelines.
• Install, configure, and maintain Oracle Enterprise Linux operating systems and related software stacks.
• Manage Logical Volume Manager (LVM) configurations, including volume groups and filesystem expansion.
• Administer distributed file systems, NFS servers/clients, and automount configurations.
• Maintain network services such as DNS, NTP, LDAP/Kerberos, SMTP, and OpenSSH.
• Troubleshoot and support network protocols, including TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, and RPC.
• Implement and enhance monitoring and observability frameworks for proactive issue detection.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortem reviews.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying systemic issues and implementing preventive solutions.
• Ensure systems are secure, hardened, and compliant with enterprise security standards.
• Manage patching, vulnerability remediation, and OS upgrades.
• Partner with security teams to implement best practices for access control, auditing, and encryption.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to SRE and infrastructure teams.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, and platform teams to improve system reliability and deployment processes.
• Define and enforce operational standards, runbooks, and best practices.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives to enhance platform stability and efficiency.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for architecture, processes, and operational procedures.
• Ensure adherence to change management and incident governance frameworks.
• Standardize operational workflows across environments.
• Utilize strong Bash/Shell scripting skills for automation and troubleshooting.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead platform architecture and implementation efforts for Oracle Linux environments.
• Administer and optimize Oracle Linux systems with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Implement automation and configuration management using Azure DevOps and Ansible.
• Develop and maintain scripts using Bash/Shell to automate routine tasks and deployments.
• Manage high availability setups, clustering, and load balancing to ensure system uptime.
• Monitor system health and respond promptly to incidents, performing root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance system reliability and deployment pipelines.
• Ensure compliance with security standards and participate in vulnerability management.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers on best practices and operational procedures.
• Document system architecture, processes, and incident reports to maintain knowledge base.