EchoStar has an exciting opportunity for
Linux/UNIX Engineer. This position can be located in
Germantown, MD or Denver, CO. We are looking for a collaborator to work within the Corporate IT team supporting Linux servers in a predominately virtual environment.
Responsibilities: - Develop and adhere to standards and procedures and provide day-to-day operational support of development, test, and production server and storage environments
- Responsible for project commitments, development of overall project specifications and schedules
- Provide customer service by assessing performance problems and resolving issues in the areas of performance tuning, availability, integrity, recoverability and documentation
- Participate in an on-call rotation
- Provide support for security, network and operational issues
- Use the ticketing system to schedule and maintain workflow on approved requests
- Patching and upgrading of server operating systems
- Provide monthly reports to Internal Audit and respond to ad-hoc requests
- Manage user account provisioning and timely termination
Basic Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, information systems , related field or combination of education and experience
- 10+ years' experience installing, configuring, and supporting Linux operating systems; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, 8.x and 9.x .
- Hands-on experience administering virtual servers in VMware environments including vCenter and ESXi.
Preferred Qualifications: - Red Hat (RHCSA, RHCE)
- Cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure certification)
- Use of Ansible to query, report on, and manage large numbers of servers
- Strong Linux skills and knowledge of protocols including LDAP, SFTP, CUPS, NFS, TCP/IP networks
- Experience in scripting in ksh, bash, Perl, Python, PowerShell, etc.
- Experience in problem resolution and root cause analysis along with recommending and implementing preventive techniques.
- Knowledge of Commvault backup and recovery
- C ritical thinking/debugging skills from application to network layer
- A bility to multitask/context switch in a fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with both on-premise and cloud-based (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services) server virtualization.
- Knowledge of OpenShift a plus
Will be eligible for discretionary bonus, with funding based on company performance.
