Linux Engineer - Analytic Search Group, Princeton NJ

Linux engineer accustomed to working closely with development and qa teams during the development, 

deployment and support of in-house built applications. Also experienced with the installation, 

maintenance and upgrade of COTS (commercial off the shelf) applications. An example might be an 

accounting system or a document management system. Must be collaborative with ability to participate 

in system architecture, integration and documentation process. Ability to produce 

implementation/change management plans, concise documentation, diagrams, KB articles and FAQs. 

Candidate thrives in a fast paced environment requiring server build, package and application deploys 

and updates. Strong system and application debug and tuning skills. Experience provisioning linux 

servers in physical, virtual and containerized environments. Networking, packet capture/analysis, 

firewall, route, switch experience is a plus. Service monitor and alert development and implementation. 

Respond to, triage and remediate system alerts. Perform routine system maintenance and participate in 

on-call rotation. 

Technical Experience in the following areas 

OS: RedHat/CentOS/RockyLinux/Debian required - system deploy (container/vm/physical), hardening, 

firewall-cmd/iptables, patching (yum/dnf, SpaceWalk/Uyuni), compile and build package from source, 

user management, sudoers 

Packages: Bind, OpenLDAP, freeRadius, Sendmail, SNMP, NRPE, OCSInv, Samba, NFS, PAM, SSSD, 

Apache, NGINX, Tomcat, Jetty, Java, Solr, OpenSSL, Let's Encrypt, ssh, rsync, syslog/rsyslog, logrotate, 

dirvish 

Virtualization: QEMU/KVM, ProxMox, Docker, K8s 

Storage & File Services: LVM, ZFS, NFS, Samba 

Database: Postgresql, MySQL, SQLServer, odbc, freetds, jdbc 

Scripting: Bourne, Bash, C shells, Perl 

Version Control: Gitlab, Github, git 

Language/Package/Module Mgmt: Perl, Python, R, Java 

DevOps: Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab, NPM/PM2, etc… 

Monitoring: Nagios/Naemon, NRPE, SNMP, Cacti, Netdata 

Networking: switch, route, firewall, iptables, linux networking (bridge, vlan, bond, nic), haproxy