Linux Engineer

$100,000 - $115,000/Yr

Request Technology - Lenexa, KS

Full-time

Hybrid - Lenexa, KS

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Linux Engineer role involves managing a large-scale enterprise environment with a focus on ensuring system health and performance. The position requires a deep understanding of Linux systems, configuration management, and collaboration with development teams to optimize capacity and performance. The engineer will play a key role in infrastructure projects and will be responsible for automating processes and monitoring system metrics.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all systems are healthy ahead of the next trading day.
• Represent the Linux Systems team and take ownership of our portion of large infrastructure projects.
• Gather, organize, document, and clearly communicate project requirements to relevant teams.
• Use the latest in systems management techniques to develop, test, and deploy configuration changes globally.
• Reduce administrative overhead wherever possible, an 'automate everything' attitude.
• Identify key performance and capacity metrics and build scalable monitoring systems.
• Play a lead role in several R&D efforts and evaluate emerging technologies.
• Work closely with development teams on capacity scaling and performance tuning.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience managing a large 24x7 enterprise environment (hundreds of servers, multiple sites)
• Deep understanding of the Linux command line (performance, storage, networking, hardware identification)
• Solid background in configuration management (puppet/salt, build RPMs, deploy updates)
• Exposure to software engineering methodologies (design, testing, version control) and experience in shell and Python.
• Experience in highly regulated environments.