Linux Systems Engineer (MD)

Cedent; Maryland; On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions company is seeking a contractor with strong Linux skills to support their development community specializing in Linux Developer Desktop offerings. The role involves diagnosing complex issues, engineering automation solutions for efficient VDI rebuilds, and enhancing the overall developer experience. The ideal candidate will be fluent in Linux along with tools like Ansible and Docker, ensuring that they can manage effectively while providing a top-notch experience to developers.

Qualifications

• Fluent in Linux, Active Directory and Kerberos, and developer tooling.
• Knowledge of Docker, Ansible, and networking essentials.
• Experience managing and improving observability and reliability of VDI.

Responsibilities

• Support growing development community on Linux Developer Desktop offering.
• Engineer automation for single-click rebuilds and service discovery.
• Diagnose issues related to Kerberos, AD, or NFS.
• Update and test base image configurations for VDI roll-out.
• Write support documentation and FAQs for developer community.

Skills

Ansible

Linux

Automation/Orchestration through Software

CI/CD Pipelines

Git pipelines

Docker

Ubuntu knowledge

Networking knowledge

Citrix knowledge

VDIs

Job description

Top Skills

• Ansible
• Servers
• Linux
• Orchestration
• CI/CD Pipelines
• VDI
• Automation/Orchestration through Software
• Playbooks
• Azure/AWS Cloud – Preferred
• Terraform – Preferred
• Linux developer desktop – Familiar

Responsibilities

• Contractor with excellent Linux skills to help support our growing development community on a Linux Developer Desktop offering.
• Primary Skills: Fluent in Linux / Active Directory and Kerberos / Developer tooling / Citrix / Ansible / NFS and Prometheus and Grafana
• Focused on engineering away support, engineering automation: single click rebuilds, service discovery, improve observability and reliability of Linux VDI offering
• You need to know Linux really well to diagnose Kerberos, AD or NFS issues and you need to know developer tooling to know how best to design things so that the tools can be managed, yet still work as though they aren't being managed.
• You need to have an engineering mindset to fix issues with the developer desktop at source and bake config into the next VDI image ready for roll-out - updating base image config, testing and shipping.
• Write good support documentation, FAQs, populate Question2Answer type offerings so the dev community we support can self-serve.
• Providing an awesome developer experience is of paramount importance for this role.

Skills

• Ubuntu knowledge
• Citrix knowledge
• VDIs
• Networking knowledge
• Git pipelines
• CICD
• Docker