The Lead Linux Platform Engineer will be a critical member of the Global Linux Server Platform team at Ecolab, Inc. This position is in a high-paced and demanding environment which requires clear time management skills, self-directed organizational skills, and attention to detail. Additionally, the ideal candidate is a self-starter, self-disciplined with their work, and often going above and beyond what is needed/requested. Furthermore, as a global company, this role will work alongside many IT associates with a multi-cultural and multi-lingual background with English as a second language.

What You Will Do:

• Technical lead for our Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). Create and maintain AAP playbooks for automated disaster recovery and Linux operational work.
• Provide operational support of the companies ~600 Linux based servers. This includes both OnPrem and Cloud based servers. Including
• Provide server admin support related to resolving break/fix type incidents in the team queue
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch and maintain Linux servers, ensuring high availability and scalability.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize resource utilization.
• Work closely with network engineers, SAP engineers, database administrators, and application developers.
• Participate in major IT projects related to the Linux platform.
• Participating in Security, Vulnerability and Patching related initiatives for Linux Platform

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 8 years of IT experience
• 5 years of UNIX (SLES and RHEL Linux, AIX a plus) Server experience
• 5 years of Ansible experience.
• Flexibility to work nights and weekends, participating in on-call rotations
• Expertise in Creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks.
• Expertise in SLES, RHEL and AIX OS support
• Proficiency in shell scripting and automation.
• Experience with Azure
• No Immigration Sponsorship available

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SUSE Multi-Linux Management
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes
• Experience with supporting SLES for SAP.
• GCP and AWS Cloud experience.

Benefits 

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- Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.

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