What are the responsibilities and job description for the Linux Engineer position at Analytic Search Group, Princeton NJ?
Job Description
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
