Systems Engineer - Linux (12-month contract)
$218,400–$218,400 year
HybridToronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Design, implement, and maintain operating systems, application software, and system management tools to ensure high availability and strict adherence to operational standards. Drive the adoption of an Infrastructure as Code approach by translating business requirements into scalable, programmatic solutions using Terraform and Ansible. Develop and optimize high-quality code for complex systems tasks, leveraging Generative AI tools to accelerate engineering velocity. Proactively monitor, identify, and resolve infrastructure resource bottlenecks, performing low-level system performance tuning in high-throughput environments. Provide advanced 2nd and 3rd level systems support alongside rotational on-call coverage, liaising directly with external vendors and internal technical groups for rapid problem resolution. Author, update, and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, infrastructure design standards, and procedural deployment guides. Research, evaluate, and recommend emerging datacenter and infrastructure technologies that directly align with global team objectives. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Infrastructure Systems Engineering.
Required Qualifications
- A post-secondary degree or equivalent relevant experience in Computer Science or Engineering
- 5+ years of progressive system administration experience
- Deep expertise supporting self-hosted physical datacenters
- Deep expertise with RedHat Linux (versions 8, 9, 10)
- Solid mastery of core networking fundamentals (PXE, DHCP, DNS, LDAP)
- Solid mastery of LVM/XFS storage management
- Solid mastery of host-based firewall/SSH configurations
- Solid mastery of low-level system tuning within high-throughput environments
- Proven experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks
- Specific experience with Terraform
- Specific experience with Ansible Automation Platform
- Hands-on experience with containerization and virtualization platforms (such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Virtualization)
- Experience with enterprise OS deployment engines (RedHat Satellite)
- Familiarity with managing on-premise storage environments, including PURE Storage, NetApp, and container-native configurations (Portworx)
- Practical experience working with centralized monitoring and logging platforms (Splunk Observability/Cloud, Grafana)
- Conceptual awareness and use of Generative AI productivity tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude) to augment code development workflows and daily operations
- Excellent analytical, collaborative problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills
- Must be authorized to work in the country where this position is located
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with virtualization platforms like VMWare or Nutanix
- Public cloud infrastructure experience, ideally AWS
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