Linux and Virtualization Engineer

US-NJ-Jersey City

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Job Description

Job Summary & Responsibilities

An engineer within the OS Platform Engineering team will be responsible for evaluating, designing, implementing and making production-ready the products which comprise the Firm’s Linux and Virtualization environments. This role also requires providing 3rd level support (prior to the vendor) for these platforms. You’ll be working within a global team on cutting edge hardware, operating systems, hypervisors, networks and storage to build out our next generation compute platform. This is a hands-on role with an emphasis on testing, optimizing the performance and value of solutions, and providing advice and guidance to other teams. We are looking for a result oriented, self-starter who will be able to dive deep into problems and think outside of the box to create production ready solutions.

 

Skills & Requirements

Basic Qualifications

-CS Degree or equivalent 
-Minimum of 3 years of experience with either Linux operating systems (Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc. ) and/or hardware virtualization / hypervisor / VM technologies from VMware, Microsoft and/or Linux (Xen or KVM) 
-Solid understanding of operating systems (Linux and Windows) and x86 hardware 
-Minimum 2 years of scripting using Perl, Python or Ruby 
-Attention to detail and excellent troubleshooting skills

Preferred Qualifications

-Strong written and verbal skills 
-Knowledge of Web Services / RESTful API creation and integration 
-Knowledge of related storage and IP network technologies 
-Experience with public cloud technologies – Amazon AWS, OpenStack, CloudStack or Microsoft Azure 
-Experience with UNIX configuration management solutions – CFEngine, Puppet, Chef, Ansible or Salt