Linux Operations Engineer

Company Description Artech is the 10th Largest IT Staffing Company in the US, according to Staffing Industry Analysts' 2012 annual report. Artech provides technical expertise to fill gaps in clients' immediate skill-sets availability, deliver emerging technology skill-sets, refresh existing skill base, allow for flexibility in project planning and execution phases, and provide budgeting/financial flexibility by offering contingent labor as a variable cost.

Job Description We are looking for a candidate with a strong background in infrastructure automation to help us design, implement, and maintain software build engineering processes, product testing and staging environments, and a Linux-based infrastructure.  We're looking for someone that is enthusiastic about new technologies, who's excited about working closely with a small group of engineers and developers, who enjoys taking ownership of their work, who wants to help us think about and design new infrastructure solutions, who wants to introduce new technology ideas, and who wants to learn.

Responsibilities Primarily responsible for the day to day creation, deployment, support and maintenance of development software stacks, overseeing build frameworks, repackaging RPM dependencies, improving OS distributions, writing configuration management code, and building software tools to support infrastructure provisioning.

Required Experience The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 1 year, direct and hands-on experience in a medium to large Linux based environment supporting development activities.  Specific required experience includes:

Linux systems administration – (CentOS, Redhat)
Storage (preferably NAS)
Configuration management and automation using tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible.

Virtualization platforms (VMWare and Open Stack) Networking (primarily layers 1 –
3), protocols and standard tools such as tcpdump and trace route

Python or Ruby software development

Shell scripting (bash/sed/awk/etc.)RPM packaging and package management

Git source code management

Continuous Integration Frameworks (e.g. Jenkins)
Development technology (e.g. PHP, RoR, Python, Java, Groovy, etc.)Cassandra Database Administration Familiarity with SOA, SOLR, Splunk, Spark, Nagios, Docker We are really looking for a Junior-Mid level Linux Systems Administrator that has had experience with GIT and Command Line.

They have to be flexible with their availability as there is an on-call requirement and a couple evenings a week that are needed.

Currently the on-call is 1 week out of 8 and it is typically very light and the evening work is on Tuesday/Thursday evenings.

If any on-call requirements happen he will work with the resource to provide comp time.

Currently the team consists of 6 Senior members and they are looking for more Junior level to take a lot of the day to day operational functions. There is potential this assignment will be extended past 2016 as  connection with the Project, Consultant shall provide the Resource to perform the following Services:

Deploying, Supporting, and Configuring code in support of CloudTV, TVEverywhere, and IPVOD programs.

Build and rebuild of various operating environments in support for video delivery systems.

Delivering and assuring the performance of technically advanced; highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems.

Diagnose problems with both proprietary and open source application.

Working with virtual networks (VMware), Web Services, and streaming media

Application support, e.g. Unix and Web middleware development and/or QAEnd to end systems administration of clusters of CentOS Linux dev/test/prod servers.

Troubleshoot infrastructure and network issues as possible causes of poor service performance.

Takes the lead on defining the…