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A prestigious financial firm is on the search for a Manager, Server Administration (Linux). This manager will lead a team of Linux engineers to support a large, complex Linux environment and will help the transition to infrastructure into the cloud. They will help drive infrastructure as a code and automation concepts. They will need heavy experience with Linux, AWS, RedHat, Ansible, Python, Jenkins, Terraform, CICD, etc.
Responsibilities
- Manage day to day operations of highly virtualized Linux compute infrastructure
- Provide status reporting (availability, performance capacity utilization)
- Create and maintain process & policy documentation
- Drive automation of Linux systems
- Develop Linux server team to align with the company future technology roadmap.
- Forecast System demands and recommend upgrades, expansions and reconfiguration
- Resource planning
- Provide input into strategic compute infrastructure plans and help drive alignment with application teams, security and business
- Collaborate with application support teams to drive improvements in communication, architecture, and performance
- Act as a liaison for customer relations and represent server teams
- Manage enterprise server environment related projects
- Lead audit and security responsibilities that include routine reviews and reporting of technology policies and security compliance
- Work with auditors to remediate and closeout all remediation, regulatory, and audit findings
- Draft proposals to tackle technology challenges and work with vendors to provide best solution at optimal cost
- Responsible for change management process for server infrastructure
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related discipline
- Minimum 7 years of experience in Compute (Linux) administration
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Cloud technologies and CI/CD technologies
- Minimum 3 years of experience in managing people and leading projects.
- Experience in a regulated/financial industry a plus
- Experience with disaster recovery testing and creating technical/process documentation
- Strong background in Compute (Linux) administration
- Working knowledge of Virtualization and Storage infrastructure
- Working knowledge and experience in Cloud Infrastructure
- Linux Systems (Redhat and Amazon linux)
- EMC storage
- VMWare virtualization
- Cloud technologies (AWS)
- CI/CD (Terraform, Jenkins, Artifactory, Github)
- Automation (Ansible, Python)