Cloud Linux Engineer

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“Join us on the interesting and challenging journey to extend our SAP platform hosted on clustered Linux systems on AWS to China. You will part of a dynamic infrastructure system engineering team and help build stable, performant and highly automated solutions for the company’s most important systems.”

CONTEXT

As a Cloud Linux Engineer you are part of the Linux/SAP engineering team within the Hosting Services department. You are in charge of designing, improving, deploying and supporting Linux infrastructure for SAP hosted on AWS and Alibaba Cloud. You also oversee the external L2 operational team making sure they receive the documentation and training from engineering to perform their day-to-day operational tasks and supervise their activities.

HOW WILL YOU MAKE AN IMPACT?

• Evaluate new technological trends, make recommendations and advise management on major evolutions in Linux environments
• Design and build new solutions for evolving business requirements, implement them using infrastructure-as-code concepts and a high degree of automation
• Manage, support and evolve Linux infrastructure in an international environment and act as the layer-3 expert support
• Oversee the L2 operational team activities. Write and handover engineering documentation, train and consult the operations team so that they can autonomously manage day-to-day operations. Supervise the L2 team and ensure SLA are upheld
• Analyze, manage and resolve technical incidents and communicate efficiently with other technical teams involved in the incident management and resolution.
• Work in multinational teams/projects in collaboration with engineers and architects from the SAP and Hosting teams. Participate in the engineering activities of the wider cloud hosting teams, ensuring reuse and standardization of developed code and processes
  
  

HOW WILL YOU EXPERIENCE SUCESS WITH US?

• Demonstrated experience in Linux systems administration in a SAP infrastructure environment
• Demonstrated experience in the usage and administration of provisioning and config management tools like Terraform, Gitlab, Ansible, Suse Manager, …
• Previous mandatory experience with public cloud technology (AWS). Alibaba knowledge is an plus
• Demonstrated experience on Clustered environments and management/configuration of cluster software (Pacemaker)
• Comfortable and confident when speaking with clients as a technical expert and able to translate technical concepts into simple terminology for clients of various levels.
• Ability to lead and complete projects independently, as well as to be able to delegate tasks to others. Be proactive and manage expectations. Adjust to shifting priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage effective working relationships within an organization and across multiple clients and/or stakeholders.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to automate tasks (shell, bash, python, …)
• Demonstrated experience in performance troubleshooting in Linux environment.
• 5 years of experience in a production data center environment/cloud environment administrating linux distribution (Suse) . Work experience in a multinational IT organization.
• Graduated in an Engineering School, Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Fluent in English and French
• Ready to participate in On-Call processes for important planned activities.
  
  

HOW DO WE KEEP YOU SMILING?

You will work in a dynamic and exciting environment. You will be asked to challenge yourself every week and challenge the status quo. We value the adoption automation in all our processes to avoid repetitive work and human error. In collaboration with our architects, you will be asked to develop, maintain, and operate advanced Linux solutions for our group that help sustain and grow Richemont’s business worldwide.

YOUR JOURNEY WITH US:

• If your application is selected, we will reach out to you ASAP for an informal introductory call.
• The next step from there would be a first Technical interview with Hosting team member; and if there is a match, you will have a personal meeting with him/her and our HR Business Partner.