Linux DevOps Engineer
by Virtusa in Information Technology (IT)
Linux DevOps role based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, requiring strong knowledge of Linux internals (preferable RHEL / Ubuntu) and essential knowledge of Windows internals, with comprehensive understanding of DevOps / SRE, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and 12 Factor Principles. The role requires excellent hands-on experience in configuration management, orchestration and IaC tools including Ansible, Jenkins, and Terraform; strong understanding of virtualization technologies including KVM, Libvirt, oVirt, KubeVirt, OVM, and OpenStack; software defined storage technologies including CEPH and GlusterFS; repository and artifact management tools including Red Hat Satellite, Spacewalk, and Nexus; container technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and Openshift; ELK and its beats including Auditbeat and FileBeat; and OS compliance policies such as CIS Benchmark. Responsibilities include architecting, writing and implementing software to improve stability, scalability, and availability of products; owning multiple services; solving recurring problems through automation and reliability planning across multi datacenter/environment and outages; DNS capabilities including Authoritive and Non-Authoritive DNS, Dynamic and bind DNS, and Forwarder; SSL communication concepts including SSL handshake, cipher suites, and encryption algorithms; Active Directory including Security OUs and policies; certificates including SAN, client-authentication, keystores, and mutual ssl; load balancers, site selectors, and firewall; vault tools including Cyberark and Hashicorp; high availability; API communications including Rest/Soap and developing consumer/publisher for any API; scripting including Groovy (writing Jenkins Files), Bash, Powershell, and Python; GITOPS driven configuration management and deployment; and troubleshooting through log analysis and deep dives into issues.