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Jobsbridge

Build & Release Engineer

Chicago, IL

... XEN Familiarity with network monitoring tools like Nagios or Ganglia Qualifications CS/EE,Linux, OSX,Perl/Python,HTML, XML, Java Additional Information Only GC/Citizen, OPT,EAD,W2

Phenom People

Sr. Software QA Engineer

Naperville, IL · Hybrid

Knowledge (and experience if possible) of NFV (Network Function Virtualization), SDN, Virtualized Switching products and related virtualization technologies (KVM/QEMU, Xen, Vmware ESXi) is a big plus.

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CertificationsLinux Foundation, Citrix certifications, VMware certificationsVMware, Citrix, Linux certifications
Work EnvironmentData centers, cloud environments, server roomsData centers, cloud platforms, enterprise IT teams
Industry UsageOpen-source virtualization, cloud hosting, enterprise serversDesigning, implementing, managing virtual environments

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Linux Systems Engineer

Data Bridge Consultants

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement

Posted 11 days ago

Job description

Our client, one of the largest provider of independent stock, Mutual fund and ETF research in the US, is in need of Linux Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain physical and logical Linux-based infrastructure on a variety of hardware.

• Collaborate with development teams on solutions for products and features.

• Propose and test new solutions when needed (Proof Of Concept).

• Develop utilities to automate tasks.

Provide support (during and after business hours) for existing products and features, including:

• Notification of incident status to stakeholders.

• Incident diagnosis.

• Escalation to appropriate team members.

• Incident resolution.

• Incident report/root cause analysis.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience with RHEL (preferred) or Ubuntu derivatives,

Thorough understanding of:

• Virtualization concepts (level 1 & 2 hypervisors, OS containers, app containers).

• Basic distributed systems concepts (clustering, CAP, RAFT, erasure coding).

• Load balancing concepts, strategies, and technologies.

• Networking concepts (VLANs, LACP, OSI layers, VXLAN).

• Application design (tradeoffs in monolith vs services, state storage).

• Deployment design (CI/CD pipelines, 12 factor app concepts, dependency management).

• Service meshes (service discovery, integration with applications).

Proficient at:

• Using version control systems (Subversion, Git).

• Advanced Bash scripting (and knowing when to avoid it).

• Writing small apps in Python or Perl.

• Using configuration management tools, preferably Ansible (writing roles, writing/running playbooks).

• Verbal and written communication (emphasis on minimizing misunderstands).

• Reading and interpreting code in various languages.

Proficient at configuring:

• Apache / PHP (multiple named vhosts, TLS).

• BIND / NSD ( zone updates, BIND master / replicas).

• Mail services - Postfix / Deovecot / amavisd (SASL, mappings,).

• Administrating XenServer / Xen Hypervisors.

Pluses:

Familiarity with:

• Configuring Python or Perl stacks (uWSGI, supervisord).

• LDAP management (understanding of LDIF and complimentary commands).

• Mail services - Postfix / Deovecot / amavisd (SASL, mappings,).

• Administrating XenServer / Xen Hypervisors.

• working with Oracle Database environments.

• PHP programming.

• PCI compliant systems.