Datacom

Systems Engineer, Linux

Datacom

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇵🇭 Philippines

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AnsibleDockerLinuxOraclePythonUnixVMware

About the role

  • Our Purpose
  • Here at Datacom, we connect people and technology to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in whilst embodying a culture of trust and respect for employees and customers alike.
  • Our team
  • Our Unix Services teams support a whole range of organisations; providing IT support across a range of technologies and applications. The team is made up of 60 plus service professionals, and we’re continuously growing.
  • About the Role
  • As Systems Engineer - Linux, your role is to manage and maintain the Linux/Unix server environment and to provide proactive and reactive support services. The managed services team(s) are engaged by our customers to maintain the availability and reliability of a their core infrastructure. You will be using Automation tools such as Ansible on a day-to-day basis and may be required to assist customers with Application rollouts via Ansible at times.
  • In conjunction with the rest of the Managed Services team, you will be accountable for the timely action of customer service requests, within agreed service levels, whilst maintaining accurate and timely updates to technical documentation and ticket notes. You will also be required to operate under the guidelines of defined processes and procedures and are expected to ensure effective and professional communication with all relevant parties.
  • What you’ll do
  • As Systems Engineer - Linux, you will be responsible for, but not limited to the following:
  • Use Ansible to perform day to day activities
  • Use & modify existing Ansible playbooks to perform Application rollouts in customer environments
  • Meet client SLAs for system availability, uptime and reliability
  • Proactively manage and monitor the system environment for continuing business support
  • Perform role responsibilities and duties during business hours, with occasional after-hours and on-call as required
  • Perform regular Project Services work and work at a Design/Architecture level.

Requirements

  • You will bring at least three years’ experience in a complex, corporate, multi-server IT environment. You will have strong knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/8/9 and variants such as CentOS and Oracle Linux, knowledge of Debian, Ubuntu, and SUSE would also be advantageous.
  • Along with extensive experience configuring and deploying servers, developing scripts, developing Ansible playbooks and supporting systems infrastructure (virtualisation platforms such as VMWare, OLVM and Nutanix). You will be comfortable using Ansible in day-to-day operations. Plus, you will have experience with sever security initiatives including system hardening and security incident investigations.
  • You will possess exceptional customer, problem-solving and technical documentation skills, and be a team-player. Other skills you possess or technologies that you will have worked with include:
  • Configuration Management:
  • git, GitLab CI/CD
  • gitlab runners
  • Monitoring:
  • PRTG
  • Check_MK
  • Science Logic
  • Automation / Scripting:
  • Ansible
  • Python
  • Bash
  • PowerShell
  • Software Packaging / Deployment:
  • Red Hat Satellite
  • Docker / Buildah / Podman container development