Unix administrator

Are you a Platform Engineer with extensive Unix Administration acumen? Do you know what the correct technical infrastructure is for a high velocity agile and business focused organization? Have you successfully delivered the right foundation and platform that software development community thrives on? Do you have hands on experience with Ansible, Docker and Bash scripting? If you’ve designed, provisioned, and managed run-time platforms, or fully automated continuous integration and deployment solutions then we have a destination for you. Apply and learn why there’s #MoreatFreddieMac

Our Impact:

Our Capital Markets division’s well-established DevOps team is managing, operating, and extending its Agile (Nimble Development Methodology, aka “Nimble”) based platform for software developments. The Nimble DevOps:

• Owns releases and production integrity, enabling Capital Markets to manage Freddie Mac’s retained portfolio as well as debt funding, liquidity management, interest-rate hedging and securitization
• Provides a platform for the division’s software development community (300+ professionals), guaranteeing consistency between development, integration, pre-production and production environments
• Delivers automated tools and pipeline for continuous integration and development (CI/CD), meeting demanding and challenging business needs in a controlled yet efficient and timely manner

Your Impact:

You will own the entire Nimble tool chain. Through it, you support, directly and indirectly, various development teams to maximize Nimble’s value proposition. As the subject matter expert to the development community, you support providing a one-stop technical solution to anyone delivering products driven by business in a timely, efficient, and agile manner.

Our ideal candidate also collaborates with the internal community and empowers it to meet business needs economically and effectively - providing consultancy throughout the entire lifecycle, especially in:

• Application architecture and software containerization (Docker)
• Iterative and test-driven development
• Continuous integration and deployment
• Automated testing.

You will thrive on developing, maintaining, and extending Nimble’s automation fabric and enhancing tools for Project workflow, source code and artifacts management, development workflow, continuous build and integration, test automation, and continuous delivery and deployments.

• 5yrs+ experience of Unix Administration
• 5yrs experience of engineering automated software delivery toolchains
• Clear understanding of security practices and identity management in SDLC tools
• 5yrs+ experience of hands-on experience with Docker
• 5yrs+ experience developing solutions and managing environments that automate software deployment and configuration
• 5yrs+ experience in infrastructure engineering for both non-production and production environments
• 10+ years of relevant professional work experience
• Expert in Operating System Platform Configuration:
• Linux platforms (Red Hat)
• Automated configuration management (Ansible is a must)
• Expert in High Availability techniques:
• Failover techniques and load balancing (hot-cold implementation is a must)
• Business continuity - wide area resiliency
• Expert in scripting languages:
• Bash (must have 10+ years of hands-on experience)
• Knowledge of Application Software deployment and orchestration techniques (yum)
• 5yrs+ of Java application deployments and Java resource management
• Python
• Groovy, * Unix administrator with software developer’s acumen and drive to deliver automated solutions
• Intellectual agility and interpersonal flexibility
• Facilitate complete solutions meeting software developer, infrastructure and DevOps teams’ needs
• Develop fully automatic and lights-out implementations
• Strong consultation and communications skills
• Curiosity to learn and instill new paradigms in others

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Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $130,000 - $196,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.