Job Description:

Title: Linux Systems Engineer

Location: Dallas, TX

Position Type: Full Time

The client is looking for a Systems Engineer to support, troubleshoot, automate, and

maintain Copart’s hybrid cloud Infrastructure. This includes the integration,

management, and troubleshooting of Linux servers, enterprise storage,

virtualization, and other core systems infrastructure that supports all Copart’s

environments. The ideal candidate is one with the desire to innovate, learn new

technologies, utilize their excitement of technology to mentor others, and will have

in-depth knowledge of Linux with skills in tuning, troubleshooting, and automating

the environment.

Provide design, integration, support, and management of Copart’s systems

infrastructure.

Engineer and architect high performing, resilient, and easily recoverable

infrastructure.

Develop and maintain documentation of the systems and environments.

Plan, implement, and manage projects and solutions within the environment.

Explore new technologies, methods, and processes which would improve

efficiencies, performance, and reliability of existing infrastructure.

Continuously explore means to automate operational tasks and develop self-

service tools for the Systems Engineering team’s customers.

Coordinate and work with other teams such as Network Engineering, DEVOPS,

developers, and Security on projects and initiatives.

Research incidents to provide root-cause-analysis reports and improvement

action items.

Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations.

Required Skills

Excellent expertise with Linux administration, tuning, and troubleshooting.

Preferably Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS/Rocky families.

Good understanding of networking concepts and technologies such as but not

limited to: OSI layers, routing, address translation, DNS, SMTP, HTTP/HTTPS,

ssh, LDAP, etc.

Good experience with Python and bash shell scripting.

Good experience creating and supporting Ansible playbooks.

Good experience utilizing Github.

Desired Skills

Supporting public cloud-based environments such as Google Compute, AWS,

and Azure.

Supporting and troubleshooting Vmware vSphere v7 environment.

Supporting and troubleshooting SAN storage arrays

Supporting enterprise configuration management tools such as Puppet,

Saltstack, or Chef.

Supporting and creating docker containers

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