This is regarding an excellent opening for the position of Senior Systems Engineer - Linux - AWS - VMWare with our direct client.
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Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer - Linux - AWS - VMWare
Contract Duration: 6+ months
Location: Marlborough, MA
Description:
This individual, as part of the Corporate Platform Services, will be responsible for supporting Red Hat Linux, VMware and AWS platform. The individual will be responsible for system build, backup, recovery, replication, high availability, upgrade and migration; the individual will also automate infrastructure operational processes
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Daily activities and responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited to:
Provisioning Linux based application infrastructure in AWS
Developing automation code for reducing operational support
Standardizing build, monitoring, patching, health checks, diagnostics and support
Performing failover testing, performance benchmark, security reviews, advance diagnostics, and troubleshooting
Performing server stability and risk assessments
Implementing back-up, recovery, cloning, archiving and conversion strategies
Supporting Linux virtual servers
Participating in 24X7 production support
Minimum Requirements:
Keys to the Position:
1. 5+ years experience on Red Hat Linux and VMware - They are both a requirement
2. 2+ years experience on AWS VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53,ELB, CloudFormation and CloudWatch - AWS experience is a must
3. Candidate must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
4. Knowledge of storage platform XtremeIO and VNX this is a plus should have some knowledge of storage plafforms we are using these systes
5. Knowledge of tomcat, apache web server, load balancer is a plus
6. Maintain, patch, ensure stability of the system, upgrade and move the environments to AWS.
7. Experience on developing automation code in SaltStack or Chef this is a plus prefer solid automation background
8. Having a coding background would be helpful
9. This person will be on call once every 3 weeks and it will be from 9am - 9pm.