UNIX Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA

The Fountain Group; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

The Fountain Group in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a senior UNIX/Linux systems administrator to operate in a hybrid on-site role. You will design, implement and support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure across Red Hat family OS, virtualization, containers, and cloud integrations.

The position emphasizes hands-on engineering in a brownfield environment, collaboration with internal customers, rigorous security hardening, and delivering reliable, scalable systems with GitHub, AWX, Ansible Tower and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years as a senior UNIX/Linux sysadmin across the full life-cycle.
• Experience with outsourcing partner operations managing infrastructure.
• In-depth UNIX development with shell, Python and Perl scripting.
• Experience designing, developing, implementing and testing enterprise-scale solutions.
• Hands-on implementing multiple infrastructure operational and management solutions.
• Distributed networks, DNS/NTP/DHCP, LDAP/IdM, Kerberos, SAML and Active Directory.
• Knowledge of enterprise cybersecurity standards and OS hardening.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain and support UNIX/Linux CI/CD for bare-metal, ESX virtualization and AMIs.
• Network build and qualify RHEL9 on end-user hardware including runtimes and a full application stack.
• Physical onsite delivery and installations within labs, infrastructure build and staging environments.
• Engage with internal customers to seek agreement on operating system builds, deployment, installation, configuration, compliance and implementation.
• Develop infrastructure as code using Unix shell, Python and Perl scripting in conjunction with GitHub.
• Manage automations using AWX, Red Hat Ansible Tower, Foreman and/or Jenkins.
• Research the best products and technologies to meet defined requirements and objectives.
• Produce high and low-level design, workflow, connectivity and procedural documentation.
• Perform in-depth troubleshooting and reverse engineering to support incident/problem tickets.
• Integrate with network, storage, hypervisors and applications.

Skills

UNIX/Linux admin

CI/CD experience

GitHub

AWX

Ansible Tower

Foreman

Jenkins

Shell scripting

Python

Perl

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering

Tools

GitHub

AWX

Ansible Tower

Foreman

Jenkins

RHEL

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux virtualization

Job description

PAY: $85-95/hour W2. Our company offers our consultants a suite of benefits after a qualification period including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance. Hybrid Role in Sunnyvale, CA. Must work in office two days a week minimum.

Description

• The role will be operating within a brownfield environment, in parallel to working on projects that will instantiate greenfield solutions and be responsible for transitional activities.
• The UNIX/Linux operating systems include, but are not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Ubuntu and FreeBSD.
• It is a heterogeneous environment requiring broad knowledge of external identity providers, hybrid on-premises and cloud hosting (bare-metal, virtualization, Kubernetes, containers) as well as integrations with multiple third-party SaaS, automation, and management tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain and support UNIX/Linux operating system CI/CD for bare-metal, ESX virtualization and AMIs.
• Network build and qualify RHEL9 on end-user desktop/workstation hardware including runtimes, modules and a full application stack.
• Physical onsite delivery and installations within labs, infrastructure build and staging environments.
• Engage with internal customers to seek agreement on operating system builds, deployment, installation, configuration, compliance and implementation.
• Develop infrastructure as code using Unix shell, Python and Perl scripting in conjunction with GitHub.
• Manage automations using AWX, Red Hat Ansible Tower, Foreman and/or Jenkins.
• Research the best products and technologies to meet defined requirements and objectives.
• Produce high and low-level design, workflow, connectivity and procedural documentation.
• Perform in-depth troubleshooting and reverse engineering to support incident/problem tickets.
• Integrate with network, storage, hypervisors and applications.

Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor's in a computer science/engineering degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years experience as a senior UNIX/Linux system administrator across the full life-cycle.
• Working with an outsourcing partner that operate and maintain the infrastructure.Strong CI/CD experience GitHub, AWX, Ansible Tower, Foreman and/or Jenkins.
• In-depth UNIX development with shell, python and perl scripting.
• Experience designing, developing, implementing and testing enterprise scale solutions.
• Hands-on implementing multiple infrastructure operational and management solutions.
• All rounded experience of distributed networks, segmentation/firewalls, IP services. (DNS,NTP,DHCP), IdM (Authentication/Authorization), LDAP, SSSD, Kerberos, SAML and Active Directory.
• Knowledge of enterprise cybersecurity standards, frameworks and best practices including operating system hardening control sets.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) and supporting infrastructure.
• Experience with enterprise UNIX mail server migrations (sendmail, postfix, Exim).
• Experience of infrastructure deployments for manufacturing and supply chain operations.
• In depth knowledge of Kubernetes platform and Container/Docker implementations.
• Experience in end-to-end automated server builds and pipelines.
• Knowledge of enterprise patch management services.
• Understanding Infoblox would be desirable.

Who We Are

The Fountain Group is a nationwide staffing firm with over 80 Fortune 100-500 clients. Since 2001, TFG has maintained a consistent standard of excellence, and our work is broadly recognized every year through numerous industry performance awards. Our success is a team effort. Browse our website below for additional information on our company. The Fountain Group 3407 W Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Tampa, FL 33607

We work in Life Sciences, Clinical, Engineering, IT, and more. Above all, we specialize in people.

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