Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Mindgadget Inc. has years of experience in integrating ERP Systems with EDI and Web Services. The company has a team of highly talented engineers,technical support professionals,customer service reps,business analysts and project managers with extensive expertise on various integration technologies. Typical projects involve integrating EDI with SAP, Oracle, Netsuite, Salesforce and other ERP & CRM system.

We need a Senior Linux Systems Administrator who will spend his/her time on 25% Plan, 45% Build, 30% Run activities for a mid-size (less than 300) environment consisting of clients/servers/specialized vehicle hardware. These activities involve stakeholders internal and external to Mercedes-Benz and across the US and in Germany. A variety of experience with Operations and Infrastructure will be helpful, but we emphasize Linux expertise coupled with Automation experience and a DevOps mindset. This role will be the Linux subject matter expert on the MBRDNA IT team but will work with highly skilled developers and vendors.

Non-technical skills & experience:

• Ability to work with service architects/designers to establish an enterprise level Linux Service, with an emphasis on client work stations
• Manage environment to ensure baseline standards for availability and security
• Comfortable in a rapidly changing, complex environment with fast moving user/dev base
• Communication with technical/non-technical stakeholders
• Collaboration with international partners inside and outside of Mercedes
• Collaboration with peer sysadmins, junior Linux support personnel, and developers
• Demonstrated interest in continuous learning and experimentation
• Evaluating new technology, coordinate implementation of new services, support
• Lead process Design and Improvements 
• Creating and updating process documentation to facilitate knowledge sharing
• Experience in working in DevOps/Agile environment

Technical skills & experience:

• Configuration Management (Ansible)
• Automation to reduce cost and increase speed, giving developers more autonomy
• Monitoring, Alerting
• Patching
• Troubleshooting
• Backup/Recovery
• Implement new software releases, kernel upgrades, patches
• Resolve hardware and software problems
• PKI to facilitate IAM
• VMWare on Linux
• Active Directory
• Scripting (Python, Bash)
• Integration of Linux Service in larger enterprise environment (AD, LDAP, Network, etc.)
• Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD environment
• Work with support personnel/stakeholders to improve Linux Operations

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