
Linux Support Specialist
Nestle
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Ribeirão Preto • Brazil
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About the role
- Responsible for systems administration, infrastructure updates, storage and compute capacity optimization, and ensuring the ongoing reliability of the platform.
- Manage users, groups, permissions, system services, and resource allocation;
- Perform operating system hardening, apply patches, remediate vulnerabilities, and manage system lifecycle;
- Troubleshoot system, storage, network, and performance issues in production environments;
- Install, configure, and support Posit Workbench (RStudio Workbench) on Linux;
- Manage R and Python runtime environments, including multiple versions and virtual environments (e.g., venv, conda);
- Ensure reproducible, validated, and consistent analytical workflows across environments;
- Integrate Linux platforms with Azure Blob Storage and ADLS Gen2;
- Configure secure access using SAS tokens and lifecycle policies;
- Perform data transfers using azcopy;
- Mount cloud storage using NFS or FUSE, where applicable;
- Configure and maintain connectivity to Snowflake, including ODBC/JDBC drivers on Linux;
- Create and manage Docker containers to support reproducible analytical and scientific workloads;
- Provision and manage Linux environments using Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep;
- Automate configuration management and operational tasks using Ansible;
- Implement monitoring and observability using Azure Monitor, Prometheus, and Grafana;
- Operate Linux platforms in GxP or regulated environments;
- Support change control, validation activities, and participate in audits and compliance assessments;
- Manage SSL/TLS certificates, secure communications, and proxy configuration.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology/Systems, Business Administration, Economics, Applied Mathematics for Business, or a related field will be considered;
- Advanced English required;
- Experience administering Linux systems (RHEL / CentOS / Ubuntu): hands-on experience in production environments;
- Azure Virtual Machines: provisioning, resizing, disk management (Premium SSDs, managed disks, LVM);
- Storage administration: disk configuration, mount points, filesystem management, and performance tuning;
- User and session management: multi-user environments, SSH, PAM, resource limits (cgroups);
- Package and dependency management: yum/dnf, pip, conda; resolving library and version conflicts;
- Bash scripting and command-line troubleshooting;
- Basic networking knowledge: NSGs, firewalls, DNS, connectivity to Azure PaaS services (Blob Storage, ADLS Gen2).
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
Linux administrationR programmingPython programmingDockerAnsibleTerraformAzure Blob StorageSnowflakeBash scriptingOperating system hardening
Soft Skills
troubleshootingcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detail