Senior Linux Administrator

Join Absolute’s Cloud Engineering & Hosting Operations team and be part of our new core infrastructure and cloud initiatives. Our team is building the foundation for the next generation of the company services on top of Kubernetes and AWS. This is a global high throughput set of services that process data for hundreds of millions of devices per day. Be part of architecting the core application stack for throughput and resilience at Absolute.

Do you have a passion for our core mission?

• Solve challenges of scalability, efficiency and security at scale in cloud environments
• Building high availability, high resilience networks and infrastructure.
• Security best practices through continuous monitoring, architecture, networking, and automation

Responsibilities:

• Build and manage secure and scalable environments on-prem and within the cloud.
• Troubleshoot and improve the performance of our environments on a continual basis.
• Work with the security team to review, triage, assess, and remediate security scan results.
• Ensure systems are kept continually up to date through automation and best practice.
• Write automation and implement tooling to lifecycle manage systems.
• Take part in rotating on-call for production systems.
• Perform root cause analysis for production issues.
• Maintain and contribute to our operations documentation.

Technologies we’d like you to have senior level familiarity with:

• Writing scripts with BASH or Python
• Cloud infrastructure platforms and their caveats
• Kubernetes administration
• Infrastructure automation – we use Terraform + Ansible.
• Linux administration
• Development tools like git, and its associated CICD workflows
• Windows admin skills are an asset.

The other things we’d like you to bring:

• At least 8 years of experience in the field.
• Great documentation skills that you regularly use to write documents others can follow.
• Experience mentoring and supporting junior and intermediate level colleagues.
• A data-driven and pragmatic approach to investigating issues when problem solving.
• A deep understanding of what ties infrastructure together.
• A desire to visualize and monitor everything.