Linux (DevOps) Engineer| Information Technology

Reporting to the Director of Infrastructure, we seek a hands-on Linux (DevOps) Engineer to lead automation, configuration management, and infrastructure modernization efforts at The Rockefeller University.

This is a technical, individual contributor role.

You will collaborate with a small team and be expected to drive and implement DevOps best practices.

include but are not limited to:

• Maintaining and advancing Ansible-based configuration management used to support the team’s systems and roles used across multiple teams
• Improving GitLab CI/CD pipelines and supporting the migration to GitLab SaaS
• Managing Docker Swarm clusters and assisting in architecting a replacement.
• Implementing infrastructure automation and improving provisioning processes for physical, virtual, and cloud servers
• Monitoring system health and performance (CheckMK) and advocating for observability best practices
• Other duties and special projects, as needed
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Must have 2 plus years of demonstrated experience using Linux operating system, working knowledge of provisioning and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm), and experience managing CI/CD environments
• Ability to build and maintain code repositories with Git, required. E
• xperience with large-scale monitoring and reporting tools (e.g. Nagios, checkmk, ELK, Splunk, Grafana), required
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies and related tools, network principles, and protocols (e.g. VMware, Vagrant, Packer.io, TCP/IP, SSH, HTTP(S), DNS, DHCP, SNMP) necessary
• Experience building and installing open-source software with complex dependencies, strong shell scripting, and programming skills for systems administration purposes (two or more of BASH, Python or similar) required
• Excellent organizational skills, prioritize management, Problem-solving skills, and interpersonal skills, are required