technologies.
Essential Skills and Qualifications:
o 5+ years Linux systems administration with knowledge of installations, security, performance tuning, shell scripting, and configuration management
o 3+ years experience with configuration management, automation, and deployment (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Jenkins, Maven, Packer, Artifactory, etc.)
o Thorough understanding of CI/CD and related concepts
o Experience with diverse Linux-based workloads (especially Hadoop, Cassandra, MySQL, Solr, ElasticSearch, BIND, memcached, Redis, JBoss, Jetty, messaging, etc.)
o Understanding of hardware and OS virtualization technologies and concepts (shared processing, storage, networking, security, etc.) demonstrated by experience managing compute platforms (VMware, KVM, EC2, GCE, Docker)
o Experience with load balancing technologies (Nginx, F5, Brocade, etc.)
o Experience supporting multiple data centers and/or hybrid clouds
o Thorough understanding of network infrastructure and concepts (Cisco Firewalls and Extreme switches, VPNs, routers and routing protocols, network layers, etc.)
o Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently.
o Strong technical, organizational and interpersonal skills.
o Strong written and verbal communication skills.
o Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, or work experience.