Linux Engineer (12-hour shifts)

About the role

Lenovo is hiring a Linux Engineer working 12-hour shifts. The role covers administering and optimizing servers, providing 24x7 standby support for critical production systems, and managing storage, security and backups.

Key responsibilities

• Administer and optimize server performance
• Perform 24x7 stand-by for service contract and maintenance on critical production systems in rotation
• Coordinate with vendors and the support team on problem resolution, implementation issues and upgrades
• Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions
• Deliver technical assistance for application and hardware issues
• Manage storage provisioning and expansion
• Apply security patches and OS updates on time
• Handle user administration tasks
• Support backup and disaster recovery operations with the enterprise backup system
• Provision and manage LUNs using Pure Storage

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience in Wintel/Linux server administration, implementation and troubleshooting
• Preferred: Wintel/Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
• Preferred: AWS/Azure cloud certification experience
• Preferred: experience with Linux VM-level clustering
• Experience installing, configuring, tuning, hardening and auditing operating systems
• Experience with ITIL processes (incident, change and configuration management)
• Good written and verbal communication, able to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences

Required skills

• Enterprise OS management (Windows/Linux), including system configuration, file system management and directory services (LDAP/Kerberos)
• Patch update management with tools such as Red Hat Satellite
• OS security compliance based on CIS benchmarks
• System monitoring agents and performance monitoring
• Shell scripting and Ansible for automation
• Virtualization and cloud knowledge (hypervisors, Microsoft Azure, load balancers, firewalls, OS clustering)
• OS-level backup and disaster recovery planning and testing
• Familiarity with Pure Storage LUN provisioning