Linux Software Engineer

AYR Global IT Solutions is a national staffing firm focused on cloud, cyber security, web application services, ERP, and BI implementations by providing proven and experienced consultants to our clients. Our competitive, transparent pricing model and industry experience make us a top choice of Global System Integrators and enterprise customers with federal and commercial projects supported nationwide.

Job Description

The platform engineering team is looking for Software Engineers that have domain expertise in Linux Internals, change management, and release engineer software development (NOT operations). This is an exciting opportunity to build software that manages the entire fleet of Linux systems.

Software Engineers need to be fluent in software development methodology. These team members must understand Structured Programming techniques and be comfortable in large scale C-like development environments. This is a Software Engineering position with domain expertise in C99 and OpenSSL.

All Candidates must have the following:

1. Experience using Git and Gerrit distributed source code control. Must understand, at minimum, the difference between git pull and git fetch.
2. Software Development experience in C, Python, or Golang.
3. Comfortable developing with a Linux tool chain (gcc, make, rpm).
4. Development experience with OpenSSL.
5. Knowledge of systemd and sysv init process on Linux.
6. Knowledge of AIX init process is a plus.

Qualifications

2-5 years of experience is required in the following areas:

1. Operating Systems (Redhat, OEL or other RPM based distros).
2. Niche Technologies (at least 1 year of Golang is nice to have).
3. Server and Storage Administration (at least 1 year of systemd is required).
4. Niche Technologies (2-5 years of C99 language is required).
5. Server and Storage Administration (2-5 years of sysv init is required).
6. Niche Technologies (2-5 years of OpenSSL development is required).
7. Niche Technologies (at least 1 year of cross-platform development is nice to have).