What are the responsibilities and job description for the Linux System Administrator position at Trinus Corporation?
Work Location:
We are looking for candidates who are local to either of the following locations: Downey, CA OR City of Industry, CA.
Position Description:
The Linux System Administrator will be responsible for applying Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu, CentOS, SUSE, and Debian best practices to resolve complex issues. The role includes managing daily operations of private and public cloud Linux server environments, maintaining detailed documentation of system configurations and procedures, evaluating technologies, and performing cost-benefit analysis to support solution selection and implementation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible to develop and manage the computing and infrastructure systems on private and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Provide creative problem solving, critical thinking, and advanced troubleshooting across a broad domain of secure computing systems and support activities.
- Manage data center computing operations while maintaining strict operational security requirements and directives - implement latest computer security policies and procedures.
- Responsible to manage availability of network, storage, computing, and software of multiple computing and storage systems.
- Develop technical specifications and maintain documentation for processes and technical guides.
- Patch planning, vulnerability assessment, patch policy preparation, patch testing and workflow design for quarterly security patch updates across RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, SUSE and Debian Linux systems.
- Research and resolve operating system problems efficiently and accurately, while adhering to organizational standards and practices.
- Perform proactive performance monitoring, analysis, alerting, reporting, and tuning as well as proactive capacity planning/analysis and provisioning solutions.
- Coordinate, facilitate, manage, and execute approved changes during maintenance windows in a 24×7 on-call environments.
Skills Required:
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes infrastructure platforms running on public cloud such as AWS, Azure and GCP.
- Expertise in designing, monitoring, performance tuning and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
Experience Required:
- 7 years of experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian Linux.
- 4 years of experience in developing Ansible playbooks, Shell, and Python scripts.
- Ability to author and implement automation for complex operational and administrative tasks.
- Experience with security tools and threat mitigation technologies such as McAfee, CISCO AMP, Nessus Tenable, Tanium, and Dell SecureWorks Red Cloak.
- Experience with VMware, vCenter, and ESXI.
Education Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field.