* Extensive knowledge of building, configuring, and administering production Linux computer systems
* Experience programming in Bash, Perl, Python, or similar scripting languages
* Hands-on experience with CFEngine, Cobbler, PXE, Kickstart, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, or similar configuration and automation tools and practices
* Advanced knowledge of networking concepts and practices
* Expert skills with most Linux operating system commands and utilities,
* Linux storage administration experience including file systems, LVM and RAID adapters
* Virtualization environments and tools such as VMWare, vCenter, vCenter Orchestrator
* Solid understanding of automated deployments
* Strong understanding of networking technologies (routing, switching, firewalls, iptables, etc)
* Experience with source code management tools (git)
* Experience with high speed interconnects (InfiniBand, 10GigE, 40GigE)
* Experience with scale-out/scale-up NFS file systems; specifically Isilon S, X, NL, HD
* Hands-on experience with performance analysis tools, benchmarks and applications
* Proficient software skills for light programming and scripting, operating system administration, and hardware administration.
* Deep expertise with Linux operating systems including operations in a large scale production environment.
* Deep experience with system and application monitoring, software distribution, patching and maintenance in a Linux environment
* Significant experience with common internet protocols and services including TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, SSH, TFTP, LDAP & AD
* Robust troubleshooting and analytical skills
* Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills for technical and business audiences
**Nice To Have:**
* RHCE, VCP, CCIE, CCNA
* High performance compute cluster administration in an EDA environment
* Managing server and infrastructure within a semiconductor design engineering EDA environment
* Current Dell CMC, iDRAC, Force 10, MXL, RACADM
* Dell OME, OMSA, OMPC, OMNM
* Jira, Jira Project Management, Confluence, MediaWiki
* ITDB, ITSM, ITIL