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Job Summary:
Highly skilled Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in Shell scripting, Linux system administration, Kickstart, Cobbler, VMware, and multi-cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading and guiding a team of engineers while managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of cloud infrastructure engineers, providing technical guidance and support.
- Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions across AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- Automate system administration tasks using Shell scripting to enhance efficiency and reduce manual efforts.
- Manage and optimize Linux systems administration, including provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and security hardening.
- Configure and deploy servers using Kickstart and Cobbler for automated installations.
- Maintain and enhance virtualization environments with VMware, ensuring performance optimization and fault tolerance.
- Implement best practices for cloud security, backup, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements.
- Collaborate with development, security, and networking teams to ensure seamless integration of cloud services.
- Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues proactively, ensuring high availability and reliability.
- Stay updated with emerging cloud technologies and recommend enhancements for continuous improvement.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering and Linux system administration.
- Proficiency in Shell scripting for automation and system administration tasks.
- Expertise in Linux administration (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu) including security, networking, and performance tuning.
- Hands-on experience with Kickstart and Cobbler for Linux provisioning and deployment.
- Deep understanding and expertise in VMware virtualization technologies.
- Proven experience working with AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including services like EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Load Balancers, and Monitoring tools.
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking, storage, and security best practices.
- Experience in infrastructure automation, configuration management, and monitoring tools.
- Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or Cloudformation for infrastructure automation.
- Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.
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Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings.
The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com
