Senior Linux Systems Engineer/ Charter Communications

Senior Linux Systems EngineerThis is a 6–12-month Contract opportunity and is located in Englewood, CO (Hybrid).Ideal candidate will lead in the planning, design, development, implementation, and execution Linux systems engineering for the Client Data centre. Drives identification and adoption of best-in-class development. Designs, develops and implements platform enhancements and makes recommendations for improvements.Required:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, and / or equivalent work experienceMinimum eight years of experience in UNIX/Linux engineering/administrationSolid (RPM and Debian) Linux engineering, troubleshooting, testing and hardening experienceExperience using new RPM tools like ip, dnf, nmcli ...Experience using apt, ubiquity, debian installer, ufwFamiliar writing, reading and understanding yaml, and json filesAutomation/Scripting skills: perl, bash and pythonHands-on experience designing, implementing and optimizing Linux file-systemsExperience with vcenter, VMware ovftool, and hashicorp vault and packer toolsKnowledge of CIS Workbench hardening, Linux Test Project and eliciting test cases; experience with Linux troubleshooting, hardening, and performance tuningGitlab experience creating workflows, CI/CD pipelines, setting variablesDesired:Familiar with Test Driven Development (TDD)Experience with LDAP mandatoryExperience with API-driven configurationWrite and review pull/merge requests in GitHands-on experience with creating Linux system images and publishing to a repository system such as Artifactory, etc.Red Hat Certified System Administrator certification