Linux System Engineer

Job Description

Linux System Engineer for RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Service, Ubuntu Server Service and Cloud Service of Bosch worldwide.

• Installation and maintenance of Linux Operating System and related components in a Large-scale RHEL/Ubuntu/Debian Server infrastructure via Automations. Ensure stable, secure and efficient service and operations.

• Ansible playbooks development, scripting, programming for Automation. Continuously improve the automation status (CI/CD).

• Follow the latest Security Standards and Requirements, conduct Security and Cybersecurity implementations.

• Develop API driven automation.

• Coordinate and collaborate with 1st & 2nd level support, Analyze, troubleshoot, and provide solutions for escalated technical issues.

• Incident, Problem, Change, and Configuration Management. Continuously improve the process where needed.

• Ensure hardening, patch management and upgrades of Linux Servers is properly done.

• Address audit findings and IT risks including remediation, progress tracking, status reporting and evidence documentation.

• Maintain high-availability of systems.

• Improve monitoring systems (Icinga/nagios/Grafana).

• Prepare and maintain SOP documentations.

• Consult and collaborate with IT and DevOps teams on security best practices and requirements for Linux/Unix Operating systems in On-Prem/Cloud environments.

• Perform Host management, Golden image management and Automation for cloud platforms.

• Hardware maintenance of x86 and Sparc Hardware.

• Coordinate storage, backup and ESX administration.

• Continuously improve the visibility of the security status of the environment.

• Participate in Agile meetings.

Qualifications

Educational qualification:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering or similar specialization/technical discipline

Experience :

• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience and knowledge in the field of RHEL/Ubuntu/Debian Operations and System engineering with Automation.

• Experience in managing Linux Servers in a large scale Ubuntu/Debian/RHEL environment with good administration skills.

• Experience and in integrating Ubuntu/RHEL infrastructure with Identity providers such as AD, PAM. Good knowledge in SSSD and KERBEROS (Modern Authentications).

• Experience in Ansible Automation platform (formally Tower) and CI/CD, good in developing/scripting Ansible playbooks/roles to automate tasks in large IT infrastructure.

• Experience and comprehensive knowledge in IT security and Cybersecurity.

• Good communication and coordination skill to ensure client requests and escalations are handled well with high level of customer satisfactions.

• Knowledge and experience of monitoring systems (Icinga/nagios/Grafana/Zabbix).

• Good understanding of DevOps, SRE and Agile principles.

• Good understanding of CI/CD Pipelines.

• Experience with IT Service Management based on ITIL and industry established quality standards.

• Must be able to perform work independently in accordance with defined organization standards.

• Experience using different patch management solutions (Eg: Satellite, Suse manager, BMC, Big Fix) to handle patch management for large infrastructure at a scale of 10,000+ systems

• Knowledge of patch management, reporting, and automation technologies.

Mandatory/requires Skills :

Linux Server operation and administration

Preferred Skills :

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