Job Description

Linux DevOps Engineer
Location: India - Remote
Years of experience: 5+ years


We are expanding our team of motivated engineers with a proven track record of delivering a best in class DBaSS platform \xe2\x80\x93 ObjectRocket. You will have the opportunity to work with a strong team of engineers working on large-scale distributed enterprise systems. You will design, implement and support complex architectural design of hardware, software and networking systems.



You will
Implement and support the Linux infrastructure as code both on cloud and on-prem data centers
Provision, configure & support resilient hybrid cloud deployment architecture using the automation framework
Manage Linux infrastructure, CI/CD platform, work with other SREs in deploying and maintaining automation framework, capacity planning, create and review operational runbooks
Set up critical infrastructure, develop tools and framework to automate operational tasks, deployment of machines, services/apps
Manage scalability, capacity planning, redundancy, and resiliency
Maintain service availability and performance SLAs based on business and product requirements
Contribute to documentation related to design, deployment, validation and operations
Design proactive service monitoring, alerting and trend analysis of underlying infrastructure, and support the operations team in implementation
Initiate, lead scripting and automation to streamline system updates and upgrades


You Have

• 3+ Years of system engineering experience on mission-critical, enterprise level systems
• 4+ Years of Linux systems experience, ideally Ubuntu, SUSE and CentOS, Managing large scale complex applications
• Demonstrated Linux/Systems experience in hybrid (cloud, on-prem) environment
• Must have a strong foundation in Linux operating systems, Troubleshooting, Design and Implementation
• Experience with Ansible, Salt or similar configuration management tool to manage infrastructure as code
• Experience working with cloud environments, primarily AWS
• Experience using Infrastructure-As-Code to build large scale environments
• Must have programming knowledge in Python/Bash/Perl/Go languages to automate infrastructure workflow
• Understanding of software development methodologies and practices, including agile development, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Understanding of Network Firewalls, load balancers, and complex network designs
• Experience in monitoring technologies like Sensu, Nagios, Icinga, Grafana, Prometheus
• Understanding Kubernetes, container lifecycle and troubleshooting
• Hands-on knowledge of high-availability approaches such as load balancing, failover, clustering and disaster recovery

Nice to haves

• Linux kernel tunning experience
• Container management/orchestration experience
• Experience using LXD system containers

About Rackspace Technology
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