Linux System Engineer

Encore Talent Solutions has partnered with a client in search of a Platform Engineer on a contract-to-hire basis.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to join our Financial Crimes IT Agile Squad. The ideal candidate will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our systems infrastructure, supporting application development, and ensuring the smooth operation of processing jobs. This role requires a strong background in both Windows and Linux server environments, application development and support, as well as experience with scripting, monitoring, and vendor management.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability

• Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and processing with others

• Work with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added features

• Work with DBA to optimize data handling

• Work with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability

• Closely monitor all platform related production systems

• Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tool systems.

• Continual improvement and fine-tuning of various alerting and monitoring systems.

Qualifications:

• Strong background in Linux administration.

• Strong understanding of IT security best practices.

• Understanding of computer networks.

• Experience with application administration of at production scale.

Must Have:

• Application Administration
• Application monitoring and troubleshooting
• Change Management Practitioner
• extensive application support
• IT Governance
• IT Vendor Management
• Platform Engineering
• Technical Documentation
• Technical Documentation Management

Nice to have:

• administration of Red Hat Linux servers and support
• Analyzing ETL Jobs
• Application Testing
• Data movement, data integration, ETL and testing
• Linux Scripting
• Microsoft Windows Server
• SQL Query Development