Linux Operations Engineer

Job description / Role

Aspire MENA are looking for an Linux Operations Engineer to join one of their global clients in Abu Dhabi, who will be responsible for the operational support maintenance of their cloud platform. The Linux Operations Engineer ensures maximum uptime of private and public clouds. He or she is also part of the escalation, issue triage and technical support processes. He or she will assist with prioritization of technical issues, escalations to engineering team, and coordinating resolutions.

Requirements

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Minimum 5 years proven work experience as a Linux Engineer, Technical Support Engineer or similar in a Linux production environment;
• Expert level experience with server-level operating systems Unix/Linux, facilitating high-level engineering;
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex technical issues;
• Identifying opportunities that can improve efficiency of operations and IT processes.
• Responsible for monitoring, supporting, and administering production environment with initial onboarding, upgrades and recovery;
• Understanding of distributed storage systems such as, CEPH, EMC ECS, HDFS and protocols like FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS etc.;
• Support our 24/7/365
• You are knowledgeable of networks, routers, switches, firewalls with and deep understanding TCP/IP stack;
• Knowledge and experience of OpenStack production design, operations and troubleshooting
• Experience with shell, Python etc.;
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or Ansible;
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills;
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or relevant field.

About the Company

Aspire prides itself on its relationships with the MENA regions most accomplished professionals and we thrive on supporting the growth of local and multinational companies.

We believe in partnerships based upon a transparent and personable approach, enabling our clients access to the very best talent not available on the open market and our candidates with challenging and long lasting career opportunities.