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Position Summary:
The Director of Product Development at Perforce is searching for a Enterprise Architect (Linux System Solutions) to join the team. We are looking for an individual who loves Linux, views technology as a lifestyle, and has a passion for open source software. In this position, you’ll get hands on experience building, validating and publishing packages, and deploying Enterprise Linux distributions, and you’ll contribute to our most strategic product offerings.
At OpenLogic we do open source right, and our people make it happen. We provide the technical expertise required for maintaining healthy implementations of hundreds of integrated open source software packages. If your skills meet any of the specs below, now is the time to apply to be a part of our passionate team.
Responsibilities:
- Troubleshoot and conduct root cause analysis on Enterprise Linux systems operated by third-party clients. Assisting them in resolving complex issues in mission critical environments.
- Design, build, validate, package, and publish packages and images for world class Enterprise Linux distributions
- Evaluate existing Enterprise Linux systems operated by third-party clients and identify areas for improvement.
- Administer automation for provisioning and updating product distributions repositories.
Requirements:
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
- Strong command of Linux concepts, commands, and principles with experience managing OS installs, updates, upgrades, and migrations
- Demonstrable experience designing or testing disaster recovery plans, including backup and recovery
- Must have a firm understanding of the Enterprise Linux landscape, including the hierarchy of upstream/downstream repositories and communities, as well as an appreciation for the turmoil and turf wars that have transpired over the past few years
- Must understand the unique use cases and requirements for platform specific deployments, including on-premises vs cloud vs hybrid, as well as bare metal vs virtualization
- Demonstrable experience in one or more cloud-based technologies (AWS or Azure preferred)
- Experience with virtualization (Vagrant, VirtualBox, libvirt, kvm, qemu, etc) and containerization (Docker, Podman, etc), both small- and large-scale
- Experience creating architectural blueprints and best practices for Linux systems
- Ability to describe the purpose of CVSS scoring and relationship among various sources (e.g. NVD, Mitre, Red Hat)
- Solid hands-on C programming knowledge with special attention on experience reproducing issues, conducting code/style reviews, and validating patches
- Strong bash shell and Python (2 and 3) scripting knowledge and experience
- In depth experience in systems and networking engineering / administration (preference to those with good understanding of troubleshooting issues down to Layer 2)
- Experience with Linux kernel development
- Experience compiling software and building images with open-source tool chains (rpmbuild, mock, koji, kickstart, packer, etc)
- Experience security hardening Linux systems and containers (openscap, PCI-DSS, CIS, STIGs, etc)
- Experience with Git-based version control
- Be flexible and willing to support occasional after-hours and weekend work
- Experience working with a geographically dispersed virtual team
- Preference given to candidates with implementation and troubleshooting experience on other broadly adopted open source technologies and CNCF technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Kafka, Nifi, Elasticsearch, Vault, InfluxDB, Keycloak, ActiveMQ, Redis, Tomcat, RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/Alma/Debian/SLES, Docker/Podman, etc.)
- Preference given to candidates with experience in DevOps automation tools like Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Nexus/Artifactory, GitLab/GitHub
Come work with us! Our team members are valued for their contributions, introduced to new opportunities, and rewarded well. Perforce combines the experience and rewards of a start-up with the security of an established and privately held profitable company.
If you are passionate about the technology that impacts our day-to-day lives and want to work with talented and dedicated people across the globe, apply today!
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