Juniper Cloud UNIX Engineer - MP1013025 

United States, CA, Sunnyvale 

783341945

IT Cloud UNIX Engineer

The role will be operating within a brownfield environment, in parallel to working on projects that will instantiate greenfield solutions and be responsible for transitional activities. The UNIX/Linux operating systems include, but are not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu and FreeBSD. It is a heterogeneous environment requiring broad knowledge of external identity providers, hybrid on-premises and cloud hosting (bare-metal, virtualization, Kubernetes, containers) as well as integrations with multiple third-party SaaS, automation, and management tools.

Responsibilities:

· Design, develop, maintain and support UNIX/Linux operating systems for bare-metal, ESX virtualization and AMIs.

· Network build and qualify RHEL9 on end-user desktop/workstation hardware including runtimes, modules and a full application stack.

· Physical onsite delivery and installations within labs, infrastructure build and staging environments.

· Coordinate & collaborate with engineers and subject matter experts across all areas of IT, including Network, Storage, Compute, Hypervisor, Windows, SRE, Application, InfoSec, Lab and Project Management.

· Create and manage KickStart scripts for zero-touch unattended ‘bare metal’ network builds.

· Develop infrastructure as code using Unix shell, Python and Perl scripting in conjunction with GitHub.

· Manage automations using AWX, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Foreman and/or Jenkins.

· Produce high and low-level design, workflow, connectivity and procedural documentation.

· Perform in-depth troubleshooting and reverse engineering to support incident/problem tickets.

· Integrate with network, storage, hypervisors and applications.

Basic Qualifications:

· Minimum bachelor’s in a computer science/engineering degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

· 6+ years experience as a UNIX/Linux system administrator across the full life-cycle.

· Working with an outsourcing partner that operate and maintain the infrastructure.

· In-depth UNIX development with shell, python and perl scripting.

· Experience of hybrid on-premises and cloud hosting environments.

· Hands-on implementing multiple infrastructure operational and management solutions.

· All rounded experience of distributed networks, segmentation/firewalls, IP services (DNS,NTP,DHCP,TFTP,BOOTP,HTTP), NFSv3/4, IdM (Authentication/Authorization), SSH, LDAP, SSSD, Kerberos, SAML and Active Directory.

· Knowledge of enterprise cybersecurity standards, frameworks and best practices including operating system hardening control sets.

· Knowledge of AWS Cloud Compute, Storage, Networking, Database, Containers, Access Management.

· Ability to independently solve complex problems with the operating system.

· Taking ownership, being self-sufficient, ability to prioritize workloads and execute daily tasks.

· Strong communication skills – Written and oral.

Preferred Qualifications:

`· Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) and supporting infrastructure.

· Experience with enterprise UNIX mail server migrations (sendmail, postfix, Exim).

· Experience of infrastructure deployments for manufacturing and supply chain operations.

· In depth knowledge of Kubernetes platform and Container/Docker implementations.

· Experience in end-to-end automated server builds and pipelines.

· Knowledge of enterprise patch management services.

· Understanding of Infoblox would be desirable.

· Experience with Configuration Management Database (CMDB) catalog services, workflows and automation.

· US role, office environment, three days a week minimum for accessing onsite labs, infrastructure build and staging environments.

Minimum Salary: $117,600.00

Maximum Salary:$169,050.00

The pay range for this position is expected to be between $117,600.00 and $169,050.00/year; however, the base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position also includes medical benefits, 401(k) eligibility, vacation, sick time, and parental leave. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

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