Senior Linux Systems Administrator – Andover Full Time

Your Role

Are you an analytical thinker? You enjoy delivering innovative solutions? A Linux Cloud infrastructure engineer is required to support the Hosting and Cloud infrastructure engineering function. This role within the Linux Solutions Delivery organization is responsible for all delivery, configuration, and optimization of the company hosting and cloud, platforms and services, prior to operational hand over. You will contribute and make an impact towards automating and delivering IHSMarkit customer facing products and partner with the business on delivering world class solutions.

Your Team

You will be working as part of the global Linux Solutions Delivery Team. The global team works with product and development teams to deliver robust, stable, and supportable infrastructure solutions in a hybrid cloud environment. The scope of the team is very much focused in an agile operating model covering all infrastructure delivery services; including physical servers and virtual machines in our globally dispersed datacenters, as well as both private and public cloud platforms and service offerings, and the evolving Cloud product set. We use flexible working practices to facilitate collaborating with colleagues globally and embrace diversity within the organization.

Your Responsibilities

• You will use Agile methodologies, tools, and processes within cloud based environments to deliver best in class solutions.
• You will evangelise delivering hybrid cloud solutions; and bring innovative ideas to the table.
• You will expand the automation capabilities within our service catalog to improve the time to market of the solutions that we deploy.
• You will have excellent troubleshooting skills, and be able to assist with low level investigations, performance tuning, and diagnostics.
• You will design and implement product features and tools for the infrastructure layer of a solution, and tools for the deployment.
• Site reliability engineering skills. Experience supporting green field software projects and creating environments with strong monitoring, alerting and support solutions.

Your Expertise

• Advanced expertise in Linux operating systems, specifically experience with RedHat Enterprise.
• Where required complete system administration tasks including with Linux operating systems, RDBMS, web servers, and other middleware (Tomcat, JBoss, etc.).
• Experience with configuration management automation tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, etc.
• Familiarity with traditional Enterprise infrastructure, virtualization hypervisors (eg. VMware), and working knowledge/experience with Cloud architectures – Public (AWS, Azure) and Private Cloud solutions.
• Experience with Veritas/Infoscale clustering and replication.
• A background in infrastructure management and design, with proven experience of best of breed solutions for security, scalability and cost management.
• Implement and deliver key projects and customer hybrid cloud solutions.
• Support customers in delivering word class technical solutions.
• Understanding of the network and data transport layers, common protocols, and storage subsystems.
• Experience/familiarity with Agile working models and Cloud-based environments, tools and processes.

It’s a bonus if you also have

• Some DevOps experience, and knowledge of building/integrating CI/CD pipelines, or deploying infrastructure as code.
• Excellent written, communication and documentation skills, with the ability to produce low level operational and support documentation.
• Certifications in technical disciplines pertaining to the required skillset.

You are

• An effective communicator and collaborator.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent with high levels of attention to detail and taking pride in outstanding work.
• High degree of initiative and maintain discretion with sensitive and/or confidential information.

What We Offer

• Competitive base salary, bonus plans and equity.
• A comprehensive, benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance plans, paid time off, a generous 401k match with no vesting period, parental leave and 3 volunteering days each year. For more information on benefits, please access the benefits page on our careers site: https://careers.ihsmarkit.com/benefits.php.
• For work locations in the state of Colorado, the anticipated minimum base salary for this role would be $85,800. Compensation will be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the applicant.

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Compensation/Benefits Information:

S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $70,300 – $195,800 . Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location.

This role is eligible to receive S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, visit https://www.spgbenefitessentials.com/newhires .

Equal Opportunity Employer :

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.

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Equal Opportunity Employer:

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.

US Candidates Only:

The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.