Senior Linux Engineer

Requisition Id 10559 

Purpose:

The Information Technology Services Directorate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is seeking qualified applicants for a Senior Linux Engineer for the Research & Development Systems Engineering (RDSE) Group. The RDSE group exists to solve complex IT problems with advanced hardware, R&D software applications, and tools; while accounting for the different needs, preferences, and requirements within the research community at ORNL. We make science happen with technology.

Our Stack and Workflow:

• Work planning and documentation - Jira/Confluence
• Version Control Software - Gitlab/Github
• Virtualization - Openstack
• Configuration Management – Ansible
• Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization - InfluxDB, Grafana, Telegraf
• Other technologies utilized/supported include, but aren’t limited to Ceph, Python/Shell scripting, SLURM, and Containers

Major Duties/Responsibilities:

Primary duties include:

• Create observability metrics and dashboards and assist in ongoing documentation efforts.
• Build and customize containers for both operations and scientific research needs.
• Install, configure, customize, and maintain Linux software including building software from source.
• Hardware, software and Linux performance tuning and optimization.
• Leverage process improvement and configuration management to drive and enforce policy standards.
• Collaborate with researchers, developers, and other engineers to develop creative solutions and solve complex challenges.
• Provide technical consulting in the selection and purchase of hardware and software.
• Collaborate with security and policy teams to ensure our ability to keep pace with an evolving technological landscape.
• Deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility by fostering a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success.

We optimize our workflows and monitoring solutions to take advantage of our 24/7 operations staff, which significantly reduces the need for off-hours support. We also offer a flexible work schedule utilizing enterprise communication tools and collaboration solutions to stay in contact.

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor of science degree and 8 years of relevant experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Experience managing a virtualized environment including tuning and maintenance.
• Strong knowledge of Enterprise Linux distributions.
• Experience with on premises cloud native platforms (OpenStack, VMware, or others).
• Knowledge of enterprise class server/storage hardware.
• Moderate fluency in at least one scripting language such as Shell or Python.
• Excellent interpersonal skills suitable for user support and ability to work well with peer system administrators.
• Experience managing Ansible or Salt in a production environment.
• Strong working knowledge of system design.
• Experience in an environment requiring change control processes.
• Proven track record leading the implementation of technical efforts.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance is required.

Qualifications Desired:

• Previous experience working in a government, scientific, or other highly technical environment.
• Working knowledge of system out of band management (Idrac, BMC, Ilo, etc.).
• Running or supporting a production OpenStack environment.
• Experience working with metrics collection agents (Telegraf, check_mk, Zabbix, etc.).

This position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days after which it will close when a qualified candidate is identified and/or hired.

We accept Word (.doc, .docx), Adobe (unsecured .pdf), Rich Text Format (.rtf), and HTML (.htm, .html) up to 5MB in size. Resumes from third party vendors will not be accepted; these resumes will be deleted and the candidates submitted will not be considered for employment.

If you have trouble applying for a position, please email ORNLRecruiting@ornl.gov.

ORNL is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply.  UT-Battelle is an E-Verify employer.