Company:

Our companies provide affordable wireless and network services nation-wide. Locally-owned and operated from headquarters in Covington, Georgia, Telrite’s growth is providing excellent career opportunities for talented individuals looking for new challenges. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package. Working from our convenient new Marietta office close the The Battery, near I-75 and I-285 in North Atlanta.

Opportunity:

This is a great opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Linux Engineer to join a dynamic IT team at Telrite and its brands specialized in the telecoms sector. The candidate will be a vital member of the Systems team reporting to the Director of Technology. The Senior Linux Engineer will work closely with teams across all departments to troubleshoot issues, and to build and maintain critical systems and IT infrastructure. The preferred candidate is expected to work under minimal supervision and take leadership in planning successful completion of projects.

Responsibilities:

• Build and configure rack-mounted and virtual servers, and prepare them for deployment.
• Develop scripts and programs to automate systems-related functions.
• Maintain solutions to automate the configuration, provisioning, deployment and monitoring of our core systems.
• Evaluates security updates and patches, and deploy updates to systems in a timely manner.
• Manage data center backup and disaster recovery process
• Work with our Developers to ensure robustness and scalability of deployed applications.
• Quickly become an expert of IT infrastructure, and actively research technologies to keep our environment secure and ready for future needs.
• Improve and document operating procedures and train staff.
• Assist our NOC in supporting IT needs of staff across multiple offices.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support when needed.

Qualification, Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years as a Systems Engineer in an enterprise environment.
• 3 years in supporting and maintaining production environments.
• Solid grasp of Linux-based systems such as Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, etc.
• Good knowledge of machine virtualization using VMware, Proxmox and kvm.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Puppet.
• Proficient shell scripting and/or programming skills.
• Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP protocols network diagnostics.
• Knowledge of infrastructure and application monitoring.
• Team player with ability to provide technical guidance to IT teams.
• Proactive in nature and ability to lead projects from start to finish.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail.

Desirable experience:

• Familiar with Cisco networking hardware.
• Knowledge of PBX phone systems.
• Basic PostgreSQL and SQL administration.
• Experience in fundamental Windows services such as AD and DNS.
• Working experience in containerization platforms (Docker and Kubernetes).
• Basic understanding of software deployment pipelines.