Unix Engineer and SRE

About the role

This role combines Unix system administration with SRE duties, covering RHEL systems, OpenShift containers and JBoss application servers. It involves day-to-day system management, collaboration with development teams and on-call support.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and maintain RHEL systems across development, testing and production environments
• Design, implement and support OpenShift container platforms
• Administer and troubleshoot JBoss application servers
• Use Red Hat Satellite for system provisioning, patching and configuration management
• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards
• Perform system upgrades, patches and maintenance tasks
• Maintain documentation for system configurations and processes
• Collaborate with development teams on application deployment and operations
• Take part in on-call rotations for critical system support

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in Unix/Linux administration, focused on RHEL system administration and troubleshooting
• Experience supporting messaging queue platforms such as IBM MQ or ActiveMQ

Required skills

• Strong knowledge of OpenShift container administration
• Proficiency with Red Hat Satellite and shell scripting (Bash)
• At least one programming language, e.g. Python
• Networking concepts and protocols
• Configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet
• Monitoring and logging solutions such as Zabbix or the ELK stack