Linux Application Engineer from ALTA IT Services

If interested reach out directly to kspicer@altaits.com or call/text 301-252-8762

HOW A LINUX APPLICATION ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

Configuring and supporting daily application management tasks, such as troubleshooting issues, deploying changes, installing and configuring new custom and third-party applications, remediating application security vulnerabilities, and optimizing performance settings
Monitoring the health of applications and responding to alerts, such as service down, failed backup, slow response time, and full file systems
Working closely with application owners and software engineers to identify requirements
Planning and implementing projects, such as installing new custom applications with web services, database components, data hosting, load balancing, and advanced web application firewall (AWAF)
Automating daily processes and creating self-service capabilities to empower software developers and application owners to perform routine maintenance tasks, such as renewing TLS certificates, changing service account passwords, and rebooting application servers
Researching and recommending innovative approaches for application hosting to modernize our customers hosting environment and speed up delivery times
Documenting daily administrative processes and configuration information about our customers applications

Minimum of five years’ hands-on experience with Linux/Unix variants, especially RedHat/RHEL version 7.x/8.x/9.x and its derivatives, including best practices for deploying LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) applications and supporting variants of LAMP such as Tomcat, Java, Python, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.
Required Technical Skills:

Expert knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x/8.x & 9.x to include troubleshooting complex issues, configuration best practices, security hardening, and automated provisioning.
Experience in managing hardware load balanced applications
Experience in creating, applying and troubleshooting TLS certificates for web servers such as Tomcat, Apache, or nginx
Experience with Puppet configuration management system and writing Puppet manifests or equivalent experience with Ansible or Chef
Experience installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting MySQL, MariaDB, and Postgres databases
Required Skills and Abilities:

Experience designing and implementing technologies following NIST standards, such as SP 800-53, SP 800-190, and SP 500-291
Strong scripting experience with Python, Bash, Java, or Ruby
Experience developing and implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to deploy infrastructure and applications using tools such as GoCD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions
Experience breaking down monolithic applications into microservices and Docker containers
Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with access and authentication technologies, such as LDAP, SimpleSAML, or Kerberos
Experience managing EC2 instances, containers, applications deployment and troubleshooting on AWS
Knowledge of layer 3 networking technologies, such as switching and routing
Knowledge of enterprise storage protocols, such as NFS v4, CIFS, and SMB
Experience with content management and learning frameworks such as Drupal 7.x & 8.x or Moodle on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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