Linux Systems Engineer

Portland, OR

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Job Description

Smarsh is looking for a Linux Systems Engineer to join our Technical Operations team. The ideal candidate should have the right mix of technical support skills, customer urgency and passion for deploying the right solutions to solve changing business needs.

This role will drive operational agenda for Linux Systems platforms for the company and work collaboratively across numerous cross functional teams.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage and own all production and non-production Linux, SOLR, and Open Stack infrastructure environments.
  • Systems planning, configuring systems, installing software, providing guidance in technical meetings, defining standards, assisting with research and design for architectural issues, assisting/providing status updates, attending project meetings and implementation support of new applications.
  • Data Center design for new hardware to be installed.
  • Acting as a key member (support/consult/lead) on various application projects.
  • Manage infrastructure deliverables for all application releases.
  • Managing capacity, designing systems architecture and performing technology refreshes
  • Automating and improving existing processes

Skills & Requirements

  • 7+ years of Linux administration experience.
  • Experience and proven success working in a fast paced Technology environment.
  • Mastery of Linux (Redhat/CentOS), expertise with Logical Volume Managers, network troubleshooting, bash, Python and/or Perl programming.
  • Strong customer service attitude with superior people skills.
  • Superior Puppet skills. Experience writing manifests is required.  PuppetDB, and Puppet 3 experience are a plus.
  • Strong experience with the VMware and KVM hypervisors.
  • Strong knowledge of developing, managing, automating OpenStack environments.
  • Highly self-motivated. Willingness to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion.
  • Able to lead troubleshooting, optimization, and performance tuning of applications, databases, and Unix systems
  • Strong knowledge of Internet services, systems monitoring and management, and open source tools with emphasis on Syslog, SMTP, HTTP, LDAP, Radius, SQL, and DNS.
  • Strong documentation skills
  • Understanding of Systems design and Open Systems models
  • Strong general automation skills. This includes scripting, automated monitoring, and automated VM deployments
  • Strong Subversion and/or Git VCS skills
  • Load balancer experience (F5, Zeus, A10) a plus
  • Dell hardware experience and knowledge highly desirable.
  • Experience with Solarwinds, Pingdom monitoring software, specifically writing scripts to extend monitoring capabilities is key.
  • Linux cluster (heartbeat, pacemaker, corosync) experience a MUST.
  • Ability to perform 24x7x365 on-call duty with other systems team members

Why Smarsh?

Ready to join a thriving tech company that’s redefining digital archiving and business intelligence? Smarsh is the leading comprehensive archiving platform. Recognized as one of today’s fastest growing companies in the U.S., Smarsh delivers innovative cloud-based solutions that help organizations manage and enforce flexible and secure records retention and compliance strategies for electronic communications, including social media and enterprise social networks (Yammer, Chatter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more).

Our motto is ‘People First. Inspire Confidence. Embrace the Impossible.’ We hire lifelong learners who have a passion for their discipline and a track record of excellence. To learn more about us, visit www.smarsh.com/careers.
Smarsh is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants and employees. That means we do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, termination, compensation or benefits decisions, or any other employment opportunities or practices on the basis of any legally protected characteristic including race, color, creed, religion or belief, sex, gender (including gender identity, transgender and transsexualism), national origin, alien or citizenship status, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other classification which is protected by applicable law. Smarsh also provides Equal Employment Opportunity for individuals serving in the Military, the National Guard and Reserves, and veterans of the U.S. military.  In addition, Smarsh complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please follow this link: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf.

Smarsh is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants and employees. That means we do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, termination, compensation or benefits decisions, or any other employment opportunities or practices on the basis of any legally protected characteristic including race, color, creed, religion or belief, sex, gender (including gender identity, transgender and transsexualism), national origin, alien or citizenship status, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other classification which is protected by applicable law. Smarsh also provides Equal Employment Opportunity for individuals serving in the Military, the National Guard and Reserves, and veterans of the U.S. military.  In addition, Smarsh complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here—http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf.