Senior Linux/UNIX Engineer

Job description

**Work Location : Bangalore or Mumbai** Join a team of skilled and experienced technologists tasked with maintaining and enhancing our large scale, globally deployed RedHat Linux-based platform. **Primary Responsibilities:** - Take ownership of components on a global level, working with operational counterparts and customers to prioritize and execute on enhancements, extensions and remediation in these critical components of our infrastructure. - Use declarative configuration-as-code principles and extensive automation across a mixture of strategic engineering and design projects. - Add features, manage, and tune configuration, and perform deep-level troubleshooting of the existing Linux platform management systems and Linux O/S configuration and builds. - Be involved in the architectural design and implementation of new solutions to support the fast-paced, dynamic needs of the business. - Lead the development of new ideas and policies at an inter-departmental level. **Required Qualifications / Skills :** - Expert knowledge of Linux, including familiarity with UNIX system calls, and low-level O/S and network protocols. - Experience of using any modern config management system (examples such as Salt Stack, Puppet, or Chef) to automate management of a large-scale Linux deployment. - Ability to write robust, maintainable code in Python and/or Perl. - Effective troubleshooting skills across hardware, O/S, network, and storage. - Ability to convey complex technical topics to a non-technical audience, identify and communicate the business risks or benefits of the projects you are working on, and form strategic relationships with key stakeholders. **Preferred Skills :** - Experience working in a large, multi-national enterprise in any industry vertical, showing experience of communicating and collaborating in globally distributed teams. - Enthusiasm for modern development tools and practices including Git, Jenkins, automated testing, and continuous integration. - Experience of designing, implementing and supporting large scale production IaaS platforms, working with virtualisation and other private cloud technologies - Knowledge of building and managing containerised software in a secure manner. - As a reference point, contributors to open source projects would be an ideal fit. - Knowledge of other programming languages, such as C or C++