Canadian Pacific - Senior Linux Administrator

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• 10 to 15 years Infrastructure experience
• 1 to 3 years virtual infrastructure experience

Knowledge in the following preferred:

• Virtualization Technologies using VMware/Nutanix/Hyper V (MS suite)
• Provide direction and advice pertaining to design and configuration of converged infrastructure
• Cluster experience (SLES, RH would be good)
• Vcenter or Nutanix tools
• Storage Technologies using Dell/EMC and Netapp
• Dell/EMC and Netapp replication technologies
• Protocols including CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC
• Cisco Networking Products
• Networking technologies including, but not limited to TCP/IP, DNS, Routing Protocols, Switching
• Cisco UCS Servers
• VMWare Hypervisor as well as some UCS bare-metal)
• Knowledge and use of containerization platforms
• Strong Communications Skills, both verbal and written
• Demonstrated experience documenting environments, runbooks, etc.
• Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and automation technologies
• Infrastructure as Code platforms: Terraform, Packer, Azure Resource Manager/CloudFormation templates
• Enterprise service bus platforms

Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) are now CPKC. As the only truly North American railway, we are making big moves! Drawing on our strong foundations and heritage, CPKC moves essential goods across our 20,000-mile network to support economic growth throughout Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Be a part of history as we connect a continent and create exciting career opportunities across our new transnational network. Visit cpkcr.com to learn about the CPKC advantage, our purpose and culture.

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

As a Senior Linux Administrator (internally called Specialist, IS Infra Platforms Linux) responsible for Linux operational support, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades and expansion, on-call rotation. In addition, they will provide support to provisioning/operational staff, as well as work closely with the architecture group in design support and validation of new designs and installations.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Provide direction and advice pertaining to capacity planning
• Provide direction and advice pertaining to future installations and design
• Provide direction to automate and orchestrate future use of Linux environments (Tanium, Orchestrator, automation suites)
• Configuration management utilizing Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• Scripting languages (PowerShell, bash, python)