Position title: IT Senior Engineer

Position #: JR100721

As a senior member of the Linux Administration team, the Senior Linux Engineer is responsible for all aspects of the University Linux environment, ensuring they are managed in a secure and modern fashion.  Working collaboratively with other Linux Administration staff, Platform Engineering, and other operational units, this role functions as a forward-thinking engineer and administrator who can also solve complex day-to-day IT problems. This person will need strong DevOps principles, automation, and system architecture background.  Utilizing tools such as Puppet, Red Hat Satellite, and AWS CloudFormation, this person will deploy OS patches, provision new machines, manage configuration states, deploy new AWS solutions, and troubleshoot existing on-prem and cloud deployments, ensuring system security, maximum uptime, and service stability.   

This position is considered essential and may be required to work at the normal work location or an alternative location during a major catastrophic event, weather emergency, or other operational emergency to help maintain the continuity of University services.

Physical Demands:

The employee is also occasionally required to lift and carry materials up to 50 pounds in weight. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk and listen. The employee is occasionally required to walk and use hands to operate computers, objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee may need to work evenings, weekends, and after-hours on occasion. 

This position is considered an essential position and may be required to work at the normal work location or an alternative location during a major catastrophic event, weather emergency, or other operational emergencies to help maintain continuity of University services.

Preferences:

* Four (4) years of professional experience supporting the operations, maintenance, and administration of information technology infrastructure.

* Experience, including administration and management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or greater, including installation, configuration, optimization, backup, and recovery.

* In-depth knowledge of Unix/Linux (RedHat) operating system internals, client/server computing techniques, distributed systems management concepts, server virtualization, and all aspects of computer communications.

* Administration of Linux in both virtualized (Hyper-V) and cloud (AWS) environments.

Ability to work concurrently on multiple projects, adjust to changes in priorities, and respond efficiently and effectively to emergencies.

* Excellent problem-solving, attention to detail, multitasking, communication, and complex troubleshooting skills.

* Experience with automating system configuration and management with Puppet. 

* Ability to gather project requirements, develop detailed project plans, schedule and execute the project tasks.

* Ability to create and deliver a clear and effective presentation to small groups (5-20 people).

* Effective written and verbal communication skills. Must assist, guide, and share information with technical and non-technical personnel.

* Ability to work well with others in a cooperative work environment.

* RHCSA/RHCE or equivalent industry-standard certifications.

* AWS Management experience (I.E., Instance deployment, Cloud formation development, Stack updates/change-sets, AMI creation, etc.) with AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

* Experience with programming in at least one (1)  high-level language such as Perl, Nodejs, Ruby, or Python.

* Administration of application middleware servers (I.E., JBoss, Tomcat, Apache).

* Ability to install, modify, integrate, and configure commercial and open-source software applications and utilities.

* Experience creating Splunk search queries and utilizing Splunk in the troubleshooting process.

* Strong understanding of network security, firewall configurations, and securing applications in cloud and on-premises environments.

* Experience with automation workflows using CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab CI/CD.

* Working experience in administering containerization technologies, particularly Docker, in support of maintaining critical enterprise applications.  AWS ECS experience preferred.

* Familiarity with setting up and managing Kerberos, networked file systems, and services.

* Strong understanding of Linux shell scripting.

* AWS Management experience (I.E., Instance deployment, Cloud Formation template development, * Stack updates/change-sets, AMI creation, etc.)

* In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP, and other core technologies such as NTP, iSCSI, SAN, NAS, etc.

Minimum Qualifications:

* Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university. 

* Experience: Four (4) years of professional experience supporting the operations, maintenance, and administration of information technology infrastructure.

Other: 

* Additional work experience as defined above may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for up to four (4) years of the required education.

* Strong written and oral communication skills.

* Ability to lead presentations with small to medium-sized groups

* Able to organize and provide direction to junior staff members

* A demonstrated commitment to customer service

* Provides leadership and helps bridge the gap between team manager and team members on technical topics

* Ability to effectively manage workload and delivery assignments on time

* Skilled in the use of office productivity software such as Office 365 or Google Workspaces

Additional Job Details:

* Required Application Materials: Resume, Cover Letter, List of References

* Best Consideration Date: 02/19/2024 

* Open Until Filled: Yes

Please apply at: https://umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/details/IT-Senior-Engineer_JR100721?q=JR100721

Essential Position:

This position is considered essential and may be required to work at the normal work location or an alternative location during a major catastrophic event, weather emergency, or other operational emergency to help maintain the continuity of University services.

Non-Regular Hours:

Ability to participate in a 7/24/365 on-call rotation, working evenings and/or weekends outside of regular business hours.

Visa Sponsorship Information:

* DIT will not sponsor the successful candidate for work authorization in the United States now or in the future.

* F1 STEM OPT support is not available for this position.

Job Risks:

Not Applicable to This Position

Salary Range: $137,000 - $145,000

Benefits Summary: For more information on Regular Exempt benefits, select this link.

Background Checks:

Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information reported by the background check will not automatically disqualify anyone from employment. Before any adverse decision, the finalist will have an opportunity to provide information to the University regarding disclosable background check information. The University reserves the right to rescind the offer of employment or otherwise decline or terminate employment if the information reported by the background check is deemed incompatible with the position, regardless of when the background check is completed.

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