We are looking for a  Senior Linux Engineer  for SkyConsult  (https://www.skyconsult.com/).

The ideal candidate is a problem solver with work experience in enterprise or carrier infrastructure, well organized and team player. Candidate will have the opportunity to develop his/her consulting skills, business processes knowledge and technical expertise by being exposed to our client’s complex business environment (oil & gas).

Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as a point of expertise, advise others in the team on best practice and share knowledge;
• Act as lead for complex problem diagnosis and resolution and perform root cause analysis for service interruption issues;
• Good understanding of data privacy and security considerations;
• Perform Capacity forecasting and planning;
• Performance tuning and optimization and troubleshoot performance issues;
• Design and implement backup and recovery strategy;
• Ensure that system design complies with policies, standards, principles;
• Deliver quality project deliverables in engineering, support and/or consultation to other teams;
• Develop, display, and maintain metrics for performance or reporting purposes;
• Handle incidents and perform root cause analysis for service interruption issues;
• Work closely with other teams on troubleshooting issues as well as planning requirements for new service;
• Automate administrative tasks using scripting languages;
• Work with diverse technical and non-technical teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations, Customer Operations and Project Management teams
• reate and implement change requests as needed;
• Structure, draft and review technical documentation, document technical requirements and processes for technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience with different distributions of Linux (Red Hat/Debian/CentOS) environments;
• Experience in virtualization technologies (specifically VMware), IT Security Compliance, system management/monitoring tools (NAGIOS), backup technologies (EMC Networker) are a plus;
• Experience in managing network services such as NTP, DNS, SMTP, NFS, HTTP/HTTPS, proxy servers;
• Experience providing support in medium to large scale infrastructure environments;
• Experience with automation tools is a plus;
• Experience in using ticketing systems;
• Familiarity with RAID disk technologies & SAN infrastructure;
• Familiarity with network infrastructure;
• IT Industry certifications are a plus (ITIL, RHCE, LPIC-2);
• Proficient in at least 1 programming/scripting language – bash, perl, python, ruby, etc.;
• Excellent systems architect and design skills represent a plus;
• Experience using virtualized environments public/private clouds (VMware, Windows Hyper-V, Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud);
• Troubleshooting skills:

- Understanding and employing general methods for troubleshooting;
- Diagnosing and troubleshooting system start up issues;
- Diagnosing and troubleshooting file system issues;
- Resolving package management issues;
- Troubleshooting and fixing network connectivity issues;
- Diagnosing application issues;
- Identifying and fixing authentication issues;
- Gathering information to aid third party investigation of issues.

• High Availability and clustering:

- Configuring a high-availability cluster, using either physical or virtual systems;
- Managing logical volumes in a clustered environment;
- Configuring a GFS file system to meet specified size, layout, and performance objectives;
- Configuring iSCSI initiators;
- Utilizing multipath devices;
- Configuring cluster logging;
- Configuring cluster monitoring.

• Security:

- Configure intrusion detection;
- Configure encrypted storage;
- Restrict USB devices;
- Manage PAM authentication;
- Configure system auditing;
- Configure SELinux;
- Use OpenSCAP and other tools to audit security policy compliance.

• Fluent Romanian & Russian (spoken and written);
• English (spoken and written) is a plus.

Working conditions:

• Remote position;
• Shifts 7:00-19:00 / 19:00-7:00 (36 / 48 hours per week);
• Attractive salary conditions plus bonuses;
• Private medical insurance;
• Professional trainings/certifications;
• Career opportunities;
• IT Park.

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