Eir evo talent are currently seeking applicants for a Linux Systems Engineer. This is a fixed term contract (12 month duration)position located with our client in Dublin 8. This is a hybrid role requiring3 days a week in the office (Monday, Tuesday and Friday). Role Purpose and Context Our client is looking is progressing a new initiative to migrate computing workloads to a flexible open-source platform based on Openstack & Kubernetes. As a result, a role is available for a Systems Engineer with Linux experience to assist in the design, development, and maintenance of this platform. The Systems Engineer will work collaboratively with internal teams through development, deployment, and operation of new microservice-based services, as well as the migration of other services compatible with the platform. You will also be part of the team responsible for continuing design, development, and maintenance of the environment itself. The ideal candidate should have a broad range of hands-on technical skills with strong design and implementation skills, and at least one successfully completed design/build project. Key Responsibilities Day-to-day management of the infrastructure stack Hardware specification and maintenance Ensuring that existing software and services are updated and patched as required Help improve our metrics and logs gathering capabilities Document and refine internal policies and procedures Automate as many policies and procedures as possible Working with development and network teams to troubleshoot issues. Some on-call duties as required Knowledge and Experience Requirements Three years or more experience with Linux/Unix Administration Three years or more experience with scripting languages such as Python or Bash Strong Experience with OVirt from a virtualisation owner/provider perspective Strong Experience with Gluster from a storage owner/provider perspective Strong Experience with debugging hardware issues Strong Networking One years or more experience with version control technologies such as Git or SVN Strong communication skills: verbal and/or written Experience building and operating online services and fault-tolerant distributed systems Familiarity with a wide range of open-source technologies Solid analytical, conceptual and problem-solving abilities Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in a public-facing always-available environment Familiarity with Networked and Software defined storage technologies -- NFS, RAID, Ceph Desired Skills Strong experience with Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or CentOS One year or more experience with automation tooling such as Ansible, Chef or Jenkins One year or more experience with deploying, administrating or configuring Kubernetes deployed services Experience with on-premises deployed infrastructure Some familiarity with Agile and Continuous Delivery methodologies Strong experience with SQL and DBA on open-source databases Some experience with Monitoring Systems such as Prometheus, Alertmanager Some experience with Visualisation tools such as Grafana OpenStack experience a plus Some experience with Juju a plus For more information please apply here or contact Niall Moloney/ niall(dot) Ref: EET7619 Candidates must be eligible to work full time and long term in the location specified or currently hold a valid appropriate long term work Visa to apply. eir evo talent, eir evo and our clients are equal opportunity employers who seeks to recruit and appoint the best available person for a job regardless of marital / civil partnership status, sex (including pregnancy), age, religion, belief, race, nationality and ethnic or national origin, colour, sexual orientation or disability. eir evo talent, eir evo and our clients apply all relevant Data Protection laws when processing your Personal Data. If you choose to apply to this opportunity and share your CV or other personal information with eir evo talent, eir evo and our clients, these details will be held by us in accordance with our privacy policy used by our recruitment team to contact you regarding this or other relevant opportunities at eir evo talent and eir evo Skills: Linux Ovirt Gluster