Senior Director of Unix Linux Engineering Operations

The Sr. Director of UNIX/Linux Engineering & Operations  responsible for managing a team to provide maintenance, security, disaster recovery, and operational support for all the UNIX/Linux environments.  Additionally, the IT UNIX team acts as technical resources for the other IT/User teams on UNIX/Linux issues from an infrastructure, operating system, and/or application standpoint.  The Sr. Director of UNIX/Linux Engineering & operations will head a team of UNIX/Linux engineers responsible for the implementation of new Linux technologies, and working with other teams that require a UNIX/Linux backend.  The Sr. Director of UNIX/Linux Engineering & Operations will report directly to the Vice President of IT Operations.

Description

 General Responsibilities:

·   Manage a team of dedicated UNIX/Linux Administrators and Engineers

·   Provide Project Management/Planning for all UNIX/Linux related projects in association with Engineering Department

·   Interface with the IT Operations group, VMware group, IT applications, Network Operations, our software development, and our Security group

·   Full responsibility for the Company’s UNIX/Linux infrastructure

·   Full responsibility for day-to-day issues on our UNIX/Linux platforms

·   Maintain service level standards

·         Keep all devices up to date with Security and operations patching

·   Provide leadership in streamlining day-to-day operations including improvements and streamlining monitoring and alerting for all UNIX/Linus systems

·   Responsible for engineering and maintaining project timelines while deploying systems with industry accepted standards that meet the customers’ requirements

·   Responsible for overseeing design of new service requests running on Unix/Linux and identifying all security, redundancy, and monitoring needs of the service.

·   Build and maintain an IT service library of all Unix/Linux platforms.

·   Providing and maintaining data flow diagrams for all systems coming through engineering

·   Providing handoff documentation and training the operations team on all newly deployed systems

·   Reviewing outages with the Linux Team and implement proactive outage prevention / alerting.

·   Provide leadership in implementing new technologies

·   Provide team members with opportunities and growth

·   Produce weekly status reports for management

·   Manage and maintain 24/7 servers and services which provide critical internet infrastructure in the US.

Requirements:

·   Bachelor’s Degree in a job-related discipline (or equivalent work experience)

·   4+ years of management experience in an enterprise UNIX/Linux environment

·   Must have strong organizational/project management skills

·   Must have strong inter-personal and communication skills

·   Must be able to motivate and lead

·   Must be able to perform independent problem solving

·   Must be able to mentor Unix/Linux admins in Scripting & server/service troubleshooting

·   A strong understanding of and 6+ years of experience with UNIX/Linux related environments (RedHat Linux, Ubuntu, Centos, Storage, hardware, etc).

·   Familiarity with Change Control and migration of Applications

·   Fundamental understanding of security and highly availability systems

·   Fundamental understanding of network protocol, packets, ports and subnets as related to Unix/Linux environment.

·         Be a full part of management for Data Centers

·         Must be able to understand Audit reporting and produce management reports

Preferred Experience/Skills

• Cisco UCS experience is a large plus
• Zimbra, DHCP, LDAP, Nginx, and BIND/DNS experience a large plus
• Oracle/MySQL experience a plus
• VMware and NAS/SAN technologies
• Cloud Technologies and VMware alternative, RHEL, KVM
• Any relevant industry standard certifications
• Basic networking knowledge of DMZ’s, firewalls and the network protocols; Anycast, Broadcast, Kafka, Unicast and multicast.
• Scripting - BaSH, Perl, Python, Korn

Work Conditions   

• Additional working hours as required, to include during the maintenance window 12:00 AM – 6:00 AM CST. 
• Sitting for extended periods of time. 

• Some travel may be required.     

The Sr. Director of UNIX/Linux Operations & Engineering role is fluid, and additional responsibilities may be added or removed based on the needs of the business, any changes to this job description is at executive management’s discretion.