Engineering Tech, R&D

Summary

The R&D Tech Engineer will support On-premises infrastructure and applications and needs to have deep Linux administration expertise, strong documentation and a reliability-first mindset. The candidate will closely interact with application development, cybersecurity, networking, and operations teams to improve product and development environment reliability, deployment efficiency, and platform resilience.

Responsibilities

• Perform Linux OS provisioning, patching, upgrades, kernel updates, and lifecycle management.
• Create and maintain dependency diagrams, data-flow diagrams, and sequence diagrams.
• Manage monitoring tools including Syslog, Splunk, and ELK.
• Administer network filers with NFSv4 and Kerberos-based ACL for file shares and network storage devices.
• Handle database backups and configuration.
• Manage virtualization platforms including Proxmox and RedHat virt-who.
• Administer, maintain, and optimize RHEL environments.
• Support audit, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to address risks and maintain security baselines.
• Participate in an on-call schedule and respond to infrastructure related incidents and service disruptions.

Required Skills

• Deep Linux administration expertise
• Linux OS provisioning, patching, upgrades, kernel updates, and lifecycle management
• Dependency diagram, data-flow diagrams, sequence diagrams
• Monitoring with Syslog, Splunk, ELK
• Network filers - NFSv4 and Kerberos based ACL for file shares and network storage device
• DB Backups and config
• Virtualization with Proxmox and RedHat virt-who

Preferred Skills

• Nagios / Zabbix / Grafana - Develop dashboards, alerts, and operational runbooks
• CIFS and SMB and network mounting of folders across windows and Linux
• DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP Networking
• GPU passthrough on virtual machines to allow GPU specific applications
• Perforce, Git

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Excellent written and verbal communication – Documentation and diagrams (preferred)
• Continuous improvement and automation mindset with root-cause remediation
• Ability to follow documentation and record steps for validation
• Excellent team player

Benefits

Consultants eligible upon waiting period:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account (for High-Deductible Health Plans)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, Dependent Care, Commuter Parking and Commuter Transit)
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability (coverage varies by state)
• Long Term Disability
• Critical Illness, Hospital coverage, Accident Insurance
• MetLife Legal, MetLife ID Fraud, and MetLife Pet Insurance
• 401(k)