SSUSA Job #902: DevOps Linux Engineer

Job Description

DevOps Linux ENGINEER

One of our financial clients in the Livingston, NJ area is seeking a DevOps Linux Engineer with experience in a Red Hat Linux environment. This position requires strong troubleshooting skills, working on test cases as well as scripting and automation. Experience with mainting a Lab environment is helpful and DevOps experience is also a plus.

The responsibilies of the position are as follows:

RESPONSIBILITIES  
•    Create and maintain our large-scale, distributed test environment
•    Serve as the principal system engineer for major test efforts, lead the effort of other system engineers and application testers as required
•    Determine and execute appropriate system-side testing for each project outside of requirements
•    Write advanced tools and scripts to aid certification efforts and simplify operations procedures 
•    Estimate certification effort for projects and ad-hoc testing requests
•    Create status and test result reports for management and represent the group in status meetings
•    Support UAT activities 
•    Certify operational deployment and end-user documentation.
•    Deploy Linux and Windows systems – physical and VM 
•    Troubleshoot issues encountered during testing and assist groups in problem analysis
•    Conduct the entire Application certification effort for a project with minimal supervision
•    Certify operational deployment and end-user documentation
       Create, modify and execute test plans and cases to verify published business requirements and functional specifications
•    Assist in training other personnel as necessary.
•    Support operations personnel for critical production issues as needed
•    Create test plan, test inventories and maintain in Quality Center
•    Conduct GUI, Database and API tests
       Minimum 5+ years working with Linux (RedHat) 
•    Minimum 3+ years testing applications on VMWare guests or equivalent
•    Experience with ESX Server and creating VM guests
•    Able to install and configure new hardware and software with minimal assistance
•    Able to troubleshoot basic network issues
•    Ability to work independently or with a team as required
•    Strong verbal and written communication skills – can articulate clear objectives and statuses with project stakeholders
•    Defines scope and objectives of all levels of QA testing
•    Track and report defects using appropriate tools such as Jira
•    Working knowledge of QA and SDLC (Agile/Scrum/Waterfall) methodologies 
•    Experience testing with Client/Server and Web based environments
•    Working knowledge of SQL – can create ad-hoc queries to verify test results or troubleshoot issues.
•    Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite of products
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE 
•    Knowledge of Ansible, Docker, JIRA are a plus.  
•    Experience with Java, Perl, Python or shell scripting 
•    Experience troubleshooting networks or knowledge of Wireshark/tcpdump 
•    Experience with messaging applications (AMQ, IBM MQ, Redis, Solace) is a plus
•    Experience with IDM system is a plus
•    Knowledge of support systems (DNS, LDAP, A/D) is a plus
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Job Location
Livingston, New Jersey

Position Type
Consulting

Salary Range
TBD