Principal Linux Systems Administrator Position Available In [Unknown county], Maine

Principal Linux Systems Administrator
locations
Virtual Maine
Virtual United States
US-NH-Virtual
US-United States-Virtual
Virtual New Hampshire
time type
Full time
posted on
Posted 19 Days Ago
job requisition id

J-047305

IT accelerates the success of IDEXX employees and customers by providing scalable and innovative solutions and leadership. We are a global organization that supports all technology needed to deliver products and solutions to customers enabling them to focus on delivering high quality patient care. We strive to provide exceptional customer service and experience in the most efficient means possible, requiring alignment and cross-functional communication.
Be a part of our IT Core Engineering Infrastructure as a Senior Linux Systems Administrator! We are the IT Core Engineering infrastructure team, responsible for delivering Backup, Storage, Compute and Cloud Service solutions enabling IDEXX to provide quality products and services to our customers. Be a part of a team and culture within IT at IDEXX, w we embrace new technologies and we are often on the cutting edge of new things, always investigating and looking at new capabilities.

In This Role you will:

Be part of a small collaborative team that designs, deploys, manages, and monitors Linux systems in on prem and cloud environments
Leverage your AWS skills deploying and supporting services such as WAF, Load Balancing, VPC’s, CloudFront, etc.
Proactively monitor and maintain services to ensure 24x7x365 availability
Regularly provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
Collaborate to develop automation strategies and deployment processes
Be responsible for designing and implementing systems administration solutions to support IT projects and operational needs
Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments
Be responsible for identifying and analyzing faults, logging relevant information, and reporting performance exceptions or failures
Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks
Proactively monitor system performance and capacity planning
Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, and hot fixes on servers
What You Will Need to

Succeed:

8 to 10+ years or more of Linux systems administration experience preferred
Red Hat, Suse, or Ubuntu experience required
Experience with AWS EC2, Storage, networking, and security is a plus
Skills with monitoring and alerting system, DataDog is a nice to have, or experience with other related systems
Familiarity and experience with Linux shell scripting required
Red Hat Satellite experience is a plus
Suse HA/pacemaker skills is a plus
Terraform experience is a plus
Familiarity and/or experience using code repository tools such as Git
What you can expect from us:

• Base annual salary target: $120000 – $140000 (yes, we do have flexibility if needed)
• Opportunity for annual cash bonus
• Health / Dental / Vision Benefits Day-One
• 5% matching 401k
• Additional benefits including but not limited to financial support, pet insurance, mental health resources, volunteer paid days off, employee stock program, foundation donation matching, and much more!