Linux System Engineer

Position Overview

Contract - 6 months

Seeking a mid-level Linux Systems Engineer to join a Storage Engineering team. This role focuses on platform integration, compliance testing, and process documentation to ensure a high-performance storage system (part of a new HPC environment) meets operational and security standards ahead of go-live.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Integration & Readiness
• Integrate storage platforms with secure access, monitoring, and alerting systems.
• Collaborate with datacenter, network, Linux, and security teams to ensure seamless system integration.
• Liaise with the storage vendor to log and track defects, implementing remediations as required.
• Compliance Testing & Evidence
• Develop and execute test plans to benchmark and validate storage systems.
• Document compliance evidence for internal audit.
• Maintain testing frameworks and automate compliance monitoring.
• Process Documentation
• Create comprehensive technical documentation for storage procedures.
• Develop standard operating procedures for storage administration tasks.

Required Qualifications

• 3-5 years of Linux system administration experience (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu).
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform).
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Victoria Metrics/Logs).

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years’ experience with enterprise storage technologies.
• Linux certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, or equivalent).
• Experience with containerized storage solutions (Docker volumes, Kubernetes persistent volumes).
• Knowledge of cloud and cloud storage services (AWS S3).

Technical Skills

• Performance monitoring.
• Version control systems (Git).
• Virtualization technologies (VMware).

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Strategy/Planning

Industries

• Staffing and Recruiting

• 3-5 years of Linux system administration experience (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu).
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform).
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Victoria Metrics/Logs)., * 2+ years’ experience with enterprise storage technologies.
• Linux certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, or equivalent).
• Experience with containerized storage solutions (Docker volumes, Kubernetes persistent volumes).
• Knowledge of cloud and cloud storage services (AWS S3).

Technical Skills

• Performance monitoring.
• Version control systems (Git).
• Virtualization technologies (VMware).