Linux & Infrastructure Engineer
Select Source International · St Paul, MN · 1 mo ago
On-siteInformation TechnologyContract
Key Responsibilities
- Perform Linux OS provisioning, patching, upgrades, kernel updates, and complete lifecycle management.
- Create and maintain detailed technical documentation, including dependency, data-flow, and sequence diagrams.
- Implement, manage, and optimize infrastructure monitoring using Syslog, Splunk, and ELK stack.
- Manage network filers, including NFSv4 and Kerberos-based Access Control Lists (ACLs) for shared file storage.
- Deploy, configure, and maintain enterprise virtualization environments, including Proxmox and Red Hat virt-who.
- Ensure system resilience through consistent database configuration, maintenance, and backup management.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to enforce security baselines, address risks, and support compliance and governance audits.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to rapidly respond to infrastructure-related incidents and service disruptions.
Qualifications & Requirements
- High-level proficiency in Linux OS administration (provisioning, patching, kernel updates, lifecycle management).
- Hands-on experience creating architecture artifacts (Data-flow, Sequence, and Dependency diagrams).
- Experience configuring and maintaining monitoring solutions (Syslog, Splunk, ELK).
- Strong knowledge of network storage protocols, specifically NFSv4 and Kerberos-based ACLs.
- Experience with database backup procedures and configuration management.
- Enterprise virtualization experience using Proxmox and Red Hat virt-who.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills
- Hands-on experience with telemetry tools (Nagios, Zabbix, Grafana) to create dashboards, alerts, and operational runbooks.
- Cross-platform storage integration (CIFS/SMB) and network folder mounting across Windows and Linux environments.
- Deep understanding of core networking services (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration.
- Virtualization engineering techniques such as GPU passthrough for virtualized workloads.
- Experience with Version Control Systems (Perforce, Git).