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BlockTXM Inc lists this Unix Engineer opportunity in mclean, Virginia. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
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Job Description
Our rapidly evolving IT department is in search of a “Infrastructure Engineering/Unix Engineer with excellent technical/communication skills and a consistent track record of setting and reaching team goals! The position will also provide the planning, engineering, and delivery of business scalable infrastructure solutions to meet project timeline and needs while ensuring design compliance and enforcement of the latest best practices and technology standards.
Our Impact:
The UNIX engineering team is responsible for UNIX servers we have in our colocation facilities as well as the EC2 instances in the cloud. Our #1 goal is to maintain a stable, healthy, and scalable platform, providing resiliency and solid performance for all UNIX servers across our business units through automation, best practices, and SME support.
o We assure Stability, Availability and Reliability for thousands of servers to support a wide range of applications in a hybrid Cloud environment
o We strive to prevent service impacts in a wide-ranging and constantly evolving ecosystem, assure rapid recoverability from any impacts to business and services
o We strategize and transform IT with Automation and Process Engineering
Your Impact:
In this role, you will be an integral part of the Engineering team within the platform and Infrastructure services group and expected to perform in the following areas
o Flexibility to be onsite for issues and server builds. Need to live close to Mclean office
Qualifications:
o College Degree with 5 years demonstrated experience in Information Technology with in-depth knowledge of Linux and Infrastructure Engineering
o Physical server Builds, Linux security concepts and familiarity with firmware patching
o Prior experience with scripting and automation using (Python, Ansible, Jenkins and shell and bash scripting)
o Experience with CICD pipelines for code versioning and code deployments
o Should have an inclination for innovation and current trends and focus on implementation the latest trends in-house.
o Understanding of vulnerability management and risk remediation
o Understanding of HA and DR concepts as they apply to Infrastructure Designs
o Experience with Legacy to Current Infrastructure migrations
o Communicates well within the team to set clear goals and effectively relay the status and accomplishments to management
o An eye for automating common processes
Keys to Success in this Role:
o Communicates and influences very effectively.
o Demonstrates deep job specific knowledge and methodologies to drive effective change and transform how work is performed.
o Elevates team members via mentoring and knowledge sharing. Highly effective team member .
o Thinks beyond individual sphere."
Please describe your most recent experience supporting Linux server builds. What was the project? What was the size of the deployment? What was your specific contribution to the project? What tools did you use and what for?
Additional Notes:
Need a senior Linux Administrators with Security, migration, Scripting, 24/7 support. AWS preferred, Splunk preferred.
Linux Physical server builds experience
Patching firmware and Linux servers
Linux Security (CIS and NIST)
Migration within the versions
Bash scripting
Knowledge with Python
Open for 24/7 support
Prefer:
NIST remediation
Splunk
AWS
Seniority level
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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Worksite address
mclean, VA, 22107, US
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