Senior Linux Systems Specialist - Culture Core Group

Crafty Penguins is growing our team! We are hiring a full-time Linux Systems Specialist - Seniorto collaborate with our growing team and serve our growing customer base.

This role requires you to creatively solve technical problems but to also develop and maintain strong relationships with customers. In this role, the willingness to learn and be adaptable is absolutely essential.

We are a Linux, Open Source, DevOps, and Kubernetes consulting company that utilizes a variety of tools to help clients in many industries in the areas of: server support, infrastructure design, cloud management, data backups, network security, disaster recovery, and more. We’re a team united by our daily habits of building trust, looking at the bigger picture, leaning into challenges, and being better today than yesterday.

Crafty Penguins is based in Lethbridge, Alberta, however, this job posting is fully remote.

If you’re a person who is driven by creativity and getting results, then this role is made for you.

You’re good at

• Rising to challenges and solving technical problems with a client’s business in mind
• Thinking and working independently while collaborating with others to reach creative solutions
• Following existing processes while suggesting ways to improve them
• Communicating in a number of ways (writing and speaking) to both get things done and honour people
• Constantly learning – keeping your technology skills up to date with the industry norms, best practices, and upcoming technologies.
• Attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, and superior time management skills
• Ability to meet deadlines and self-manage your workload

You have:

• Advancedknowledge of Linux-based operating systems
• Advanced knowledge of Networking
• Experience using various cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCloud, Digital Ocean)
• Debugging problems with Unix based operating systems and IP based networking at a very low level.
• No problems working in either RHEL or Debian based linux distributions
• Debugging container based workloads, and their runtime tooling (LXC/D, Docker, Podman)
• Container orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.)
• Linux based hypervisor systems and related tooling (KVM, Xen/XCP-ng, Proxmox, etc.)
• Good scripting skills with Bash and Python
• 5+ years experience doing the items above

Extra awesome

• You’ve worked at a company that does Linux consulting, or you’ve done this as a contractor
• You’ve used a ticketing system like ConnectWise or some other tool to manage tickets and track time
• Performance tuning, debugging, and clustering of Linux based Database Systems (MySQL, Postgresql, SQLite) and SQL in general
• High level networking skills - Campus / Enterprise networking, VLANS, VPNS, Manage