Senior Linux Engineer

As a member of the Infrastructure Shared Services Center, the Senior Linux Engineer will represent his/her department

towards the Business Units and project teams and will assure a determining role in the management, support, maintenance,

implementation, administration and lifecycle management of Linux platforms

He/she will be positioned as a level 3 in the organization, using his/her expertise for the ultimate level of escalation in case

of incidents and for the contribution in the qualification of new solutions, assisting in the deployment. The role is broadly

split between providing day to day operational support for existing infrastructure services and users of those services, and

project-based work leading to the Implementation and integration of exciting cutting-edge technologies into EssilorLuxottica

IT environment based on Linux.

This person must have deep knowledge in various Linux technologies and must be able to lead, operate and continuously

improve the environments distributed across across thousands of instances in the EssilorLuxottica Asia Pacific region.

Senior Linux Engineer

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Maintain under operational conditions the current EssilorLuxottica retail systems in the Asia Pacific and associated

hardware solutions in respect of the Support processes.

2. Build, deploy and administer/manage new systems, predominantly Linux-based

3. Pro-active in ensuring stability, response time, operational consistency and life cycle over the platforms.

4. Contribute to continuous-improvement cycle for all functional/operational matters relating to all Linux platforms.

SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Contribute to search and qualification to new solutions

2. Provide monthly reports on activity, quality and performance of the platforms

3. Ensure appropriate documentation, including procedures for lower levels of support

PRIMARY TECHNICAL ABILITIES:

1. Deep technical subject matter expertise and practical experience in Linux technologies: Minimum RHCE certified

2. Experience working with high-density HPE Enterprise Hardware – (E.g HPE MoonShot and Proliant Servers)

3. Extensive experience working with Linux automation in large scale in IaC format. (E.g., Ansible, Azure/AWS APIs,

Terraform)

4. Experience in managing Microsoft Azure based cloud platform.

5. Extensive experience with Linux deployment in large scale

6. Extensive knowledge in at least one of the major UNIX/Linux scripting languages (Shell/Perl/Python).

7. Experience creating Linux binary packages from source (RPM/DPKG)

8. Enterprise Linux administration skills, preferably based on RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu LTS.

9. Experience with Linux virtualization, especially QEMU (Linux KVM)

10. Extensive experience in automation of Linux system monitoring (E.g. Zabbix/Nagios/Prometheus/Icinga/Cacti)

11. Extensive experience with automated Linux OS and application installation. (e.g. Kickstart)

12. Exposure to FreeBSD preferrable.

13. Exposure to Enterprise SIEM (E.g., Splunk) preferrable.

14. Exposure with embedded Linux preferrable.

15. Working knowledge with Microsoft Active Directory.

16. Working knowledge with Azure AD and SAML based Single Sign-On solutions.

17. Working knowledge with VMWare.

18. Working knowledge with Microsoft Windows Server and desktop operating systems.

19. Exposure with IT security concepts.

20. Detailed understanding of TCP/IP networking concepts

21. High level understanding of Web Services / SOA architecture, SaaS and PaaS in Microsoft Azure desirable.

Requirements

1. Minimum 5 years of Senior Enterprise Linux experience

2. Excellent communication skills, verbal and written. English speaking mandatory

3. Strong technical documentation and coaching skills.

4. Follows through Enterprise IT change management.

5. Attention to detail.

6. Self-motivated, eager to learn in the IT profession

7. Experience in International scope

8. Team player must be able to work with people within and outside of the IT department.

9. Customer service oriented

10. Ability to analyze and synthesize situations and understand the business constraints

11. Willing to do some traveling