Linux Engineer

Position: Linux EngineerLocation: Onsite in Woonsocket, RI 3x/weekDuration: 6 month contract , potential extensionPay range: $45-55/hrThe Linux Engineer is responsible to act as Linux engineering subject matter expert on projects and business support requests of all sizes, from initiation through successful completion. You should be able to provide multiple solution approaches and be able to perform the engineering and drive the development required to implement any selected option. In alignment with Store Systems Management, problem resolution and collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure project goals are met. In addition, the Linux Engineer provides Store Systems Management with regular status updates, continuous process improvement, and completion of customer satisfaction initiatives.Required Skills:• 5+ years of experience as a Linux Engineer• Bash/Python scripting – at least intermediate• Configure/Install/Admin - Debian based Ubuntu systems and RHEL• Hardware management – firmware, OOB (iLO), storage configuration (LVM)• KVM Hypervisor virtualization• Docker (EE & CE), create containers, docker-compose (Kubernetes, docker swarm is a plus)• Linux Benchmarking, Performance Testing• SystemD and Linux Services (NTP, DNS, Squid, NFS, iptables)• Linux middleware services Apache, MySQL• Filesystem setup and management• System Security i.e., MSB, security scanning tools (e.g. Qualys), firewall, PKIPreferred Skills:• CI/CD - Jenkins pipeline, GIT• Ansible• Linux Monitoring & Alerting• Linux Benchmarking, Performance Testing• Server Capacity Planning• Experience implementing HA environments.• Experience with other Hypervisor hardware/software• Experience in Hybrid Cloud Platforms i.e OpenShift, OpenStack