Xactware, a Verisk business, specializes in technologies for the property insurance, remodeling, restoration, and mortgage and lending industries. Xactware’s tools provide claims estimating, contents replacement, claims management, and property maintenance solutions for desktop, mobile, and online platforms. Xactware’s services include repair cost research and reports, aerial imagery, and real-time business intelligence. Xactware has been providing cloud services for customers since 1995. To learn more about Xactware please visit us at: Xactware.com. We are proud to be a part of the Verisk family of companies!

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Verisk is a leading data analytics provider serving customers in insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services. Using advanced technologies to collect and analyze billions of records, Verisk draws on unique data assets and deep domain expertise to provide first-to-market innovations integrated into customer workflows. We’ve been delivering predictive analytics and decision support solutions to our customers for nearly 50 years, helping them protect people, property, and financial assets. At Verisk, you’ll be part of an organization that’s committed to serving the long-term interests of our stakeholders, including the communities where we operate.

At Verisk, you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create a positive and lasting impact on the business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. Our culture of innovation means your ideas on how to improve our business will be heard. As key contributors to our success, our team members enjoy working in a business-casual, collaborative environment that offers state-of-the-art resources, advanced technologies, and an excellent benefits package.

Senior Linux Systems Engineer

This Senior Linux Systems Engineer will assist in driving innovation and automation in our global environment. We will work on many exciting and challenging projects together as we develop and create some amazing automation technology. You will be joining our company at a pivotal time as we bring automation and new technologies to our operations and infrastructure groups. We are looking for you to have a genuine interest and enthusiasm for automation and embracing new technologies. A blend of strong Unix skills and automation is the ideal balance. You will work collaboratively with architects, infrastructure engineers, and application teams across the organization. Responsible for supporting a variety of production environments. We will look to you to assist with the deepest levels of support and will serve as an escalation point for other team members. 

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the day to day administration, engineering, architecture, and support services for Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu and Solaris server environments
• Key contributor to driving automation of the compute stack, server provisioning, and configuration management
• Automate infrastructure tasks that are done manually today.
• Mentor team members as necessary
• Perform day-to-day operations that protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of IT assets and technology infrastructures of the organization
• Implement and maintain security on Linux/Unix systems utilizing CIS/NIST standards.
• Analyze business requirements to determine appropriate system infrastructure needs

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, engineering or a related technical discipline or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of experience as a Linux and Solaris administrator in a large enterprise environment
• Solid working knowledge of configuration management tools. Expertise in Ansible. Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc. also a plus.
• Experience using distributed source code control such as Git
• Strong bash scripting skills
• A working understanding of code and scripts (Ruby and Python)
• Experience with supporting Oracle database, MongoDB and MySQL
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Certification a plus
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite preferred
• Strong working knowledge of RHEL 6.x/7.x/8.x, Ubuntu 16.04/18.04. or Solaris 11
• Easy to work with and the ability to integrate into an existing team culture. Able to see co-worker’s perspective and support viewpoints other than your own.
• Understanding of backup and restoration practices

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