Linux Platform Engineer with IOT Experience

The Platform Engineering group within Enterprise IOT supports the reliability security scalability and efficiency of our applications infrastructure and devices in cloud and retail environments.
This role is new on our team. It is being added to help build highly automated capabilities for hands-off operation of a large distributed fleet of Linux OS instances in advance of initiatives that will result in tens of thousands of new devices in our retail stores.
The Linux Platform Engineer will play a significant role in defining needs choosing technical approaches (utilities libraries etc.) and implementing tooling & automation. This will include ongoing collaboration with other Plat Eng and Product Dev engineers to collect input review designs and contribute requirements for scripting or development efforts by others in support of this work.

Required Skills -

Linux Web Services Containerization Scripting

Job Duties -

Key areas of focus for this role include:
OS standard build & image configuration hardening baked-in software image
packaging
Headless recovery capability self-testing automated reimage/rebuild
Observability health & performance monitoring logging integration with existing SaaS
platform
No-touch management script common admin maintenance reporting and
troubleshooting tasks that can be scheduled or wired into existing remote-trigger
mechanisms with success/failure events and harvested information pushed into
logging/monitoring
Certificate / key distribution and management contribute to overall system design
build necessary OS-side tooling for the overall system.
The role also includes documentation tasks as well as a small amount of day-to-day production support
and break-fix work particularly in earlier phases before operations are fully automated.

Job Requirements -

5 years of experience supporting Linux OS instances at scale (both cloud and bare metal / physical server experience a big plus) including:
o Deep knowledge of Linux fundamentals and troubleshooting including process
execution & threads memory usage kernel & userland system calls signals / signal
handlers storage authentication
o Imaging boot / partition management and unattended build/rebuild
approaches and tools
o Automation of day-to-day configuration maintenance information gathering
problem detection and resolution
o Performance monitoring tuning and troubleshooting for base OS functionality
and installed applications
o Experience with enterprise-grade IoT device management platforms OTA
software update solutions and secure device provisioning and authentication.
o Network fundamentals configuration and troubleshooting (wireless
networking a plus)
o Patch / vulnerability management security best practices and tools
o Application of zero touch provisioning and zero trust processes or
methodologies.
Experience supporting modern web services & architectures understanding of layered
protocol model IP addressing and flows for common services like DHCP DNS SSH
HTTP/HTTPS etc.
Experience with containerized Linux environments including:
o Docker - image builds runtime support segmentation/sharing between
container & host
o Kubernetes - network concepts pod deployment resource allocation
monitoring troubleshooting.
Expert level shell scripting

Desired Skills & Experience -

Python
Monitoring platforms like New Relic or Datadog

Required Skills : PythonLinux

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills : Systems EngineerSoftware Developer

Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No