Senior Data Center Linux Engineer
Overview:
Corporate Tools is hiring a Senior Data Center Linux Engineer for $150,000/year. You will be a traditional company employee. This is a full time 40 hour/week position with company benefits.
You will be part of a dynamic technical team responsible for designing, building, and delivering key technical solutions such as: servers, containers, storage, networking, data centers, security solutions, and monitoring tools. Our job is to ensure that our customers have the best experience possible, utilizing the vast number of technical solutions that we provide. Our vision is to enhance the quality, resiliency and scalability of the technology services delivered to our clients and our customer service teams.
In this role, you will participate in the overall design, deployment and feature roadmap for the architecture of our network and systems environment. You will work with other engineers to deliver performance and service standards and capacity planning models.
Wage:
Up to $150,000
Benefits:
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
- Annual review with raise option
- 22 days Paid Time Off accrued annually, and 4 holidays
- After 3 years, PTO increases to 29 days. Employees transition to flexible time off after 5 years with the company—not accrued, not capped, take time off when you want
- The 4 holidays are: New Year’s Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Up to 5% company matching 401(k) with no vesting period
- Quarterly allowance
- Use to make your remote work set up more comfortable, for continuing education classes, a plant for your desk, coffee for your coworker, a massage for yourself... really, whatever
- Open concept office with friendly coworkers
- Creative environment where you can make a difference
- No dumb benefits like free dog walking on the weekends that snobby hipster places have to make you feel cool, but mathematically won't cost the company much money because you won't use it
- Trail Mix Bar --- oh yeah
Responsibilities:
- Manage, configure, and maintain Linux servers
- Troubleshoot performance issues, hardware failures, and software bugs
- Develop automation scripts
- Ensure secure system configurations
- Deploy and maintain containerized applications
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field or related work experience.
- 5+ years of experience in Linux server design and administration
- 5+ year of experience in Networking
- Experience of networking services consisting of Virtual and Physical network functions
- Professional experience with BGP, VXLAN and other WAN technologies
- Experience with Identity Management tools, i.e., FreeIPA, Keycloak
- Proven experience in designing virtualized compute environments, i.e, Kubernettes, Docker, LXC, KVM
- Knowledge of Proxmox, KVM, Nginx, Apache, Exim and Postfix
- Hands-on experience in one or more of the following: Linux scripting, Firewall, DNS.
- Programming aptitude in one or more of the following: Python, Java, GO, Ruby, PHP
- Experience with cloud related tools, products, i.e., Docker Swarm, Open vSwitch, Ceph
- Experience in hosting
- Experience with Pterodactyl
- Familiarity with network device configuration and management (Arista, Cisco, Juniper)
- Proven success record of working with internet organizations to set industry direction
Why you might like this job:
Are you the type who speaks fluent Bash, treats servers like beloved pets (but automates them like a pro), and finds joy in making Linux systems hum like a perfectly tuned orchestra? Do you get a thrill from fixing things before anyone even knows they’re broken? If so, this might just be your dream job.
As a Senior Data Center Linux Engineer, you’ll be the behind-the-scenes mastermind keeping mission-critical systems alive and kicking. You’ll automate the boring stuff, battle rogue processes, and ensure that downtime remains nothing more than a scary bedtime story.