Multi Cloud Linux Engineer
at NTT DATA
Location:
Employment Type: full_time
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<div class="jd-info au-target phw-g-i-DQrJpq" data-ph-at-id="jobdescription-text" data-ph-id="ph-page-element-page8-ISe7oT" data-ps="a0c9a920-div-4" v-phw-setting="" au-target-id="216"><p style="margin-bottom:11.0px"><strong>Req ID:</strong> <span contenteditable="false">350557</span> </p><p style="margin-bottom:11.0px"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:11.0px"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">We are currently seeking a Multi Cloud Linux Engineer to join our team in Plano, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).</span></span></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;background-color:white">Prior to Applying, please review and comply accordingly:</span></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:'Noto Sans';font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="background-color:white">** Must be a US citizen or Green card holder to proceed with applying.</span></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="background-color:white">** Please know, an FBI CJIS Background check is administered every 12 months.</span></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="background-color:white">**This position aligns with supporting a 24*7 operations production support model.</span></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </p><p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> ** Looking to hire in April 2026 timeframe. Appreciate your time and patience.</span></em></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span style="font-weight:bold;background-color:white">Summary of the position:</span></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span style="background-color:white">The Cloud Linux Engineer is responsible for advanced technical support, administration, and optimization of managed customer cloud environments spanning AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This position demands Linux OS expertise, experience in public cloud, a strong understanding of managed services operations, and a proactive, problem-solving outlook. The Linux Cloud Engineer will also participate in automation initiatives, incident and change management.</span></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:72.0;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span style="font-weight:bold;background-color:white">Key Responsibilities:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Cloud Linux Operations & Support</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Provide support for Linux-based systems across on-premises and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI).</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Support Customer Self-Provision cloud instances across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI with security guardrail and backend deployment.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Implement and maintain system monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to ensure high availability and reliability.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Lead root cause analysis and document post-incident reviews for major Linux-related issues.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Execute patch management, OS and kernel upgrades, and regular system maintenance.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Develop and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and failover strategies for Linux infrastructure.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Participate in on-call rotation and after-hours support as required.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Automation & Infrastructure Management</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Develop and maintain automation scripts using PowerShell, Python, or Ansible to streamline system administration tasks.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Manage infrastructure using tools like Azure Automation.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, or OCI Resource Manager is a plus.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Recommend and implement system optimization strategies for performance, and resource utilization.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Security & Compliance</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Enforce Linux system security best practices, including access control, encryption, and secure configurations.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Manage user access, sudo privileges, and SSH key policies in line with IAM standards.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Monitor, identify, and remediate security vulnerabilities reported by scanning tools or external advisories.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Support compliance initiatives by maintaining secure and auditable Linux environments.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Collaboration & Documentation</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Work closely with application, security, and network teams for solution delivery and support.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance as needed.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Create and update technical documentation, runbooks, and SOPs.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Participate in client calls to provide technical input when required.</span></li></ul><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:72.0;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span style="font-weight:bold;background-color:white">Basic Requirements:</span></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span style="background-color:white">Experience</span></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span style="font-style:italic;background-color:white">Primary skill:</span><span style="background-color:white"> Linux</span></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span style="font-style:italic;background-color:white">Secondary skill:</span><span style="background-color:white"> Public cloud</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">5 + years of minimum experience</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">5+ years of hands-on experience in Public Cloud Linux engineering, operations in a 24*7 production support model</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">3+ years multi-cloud experience (preferred to have hands-on in at least 2 of AWS/Azure/GCP/or OCI)</span></li></ul><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span style="font-style:italic;background-color:white">At least one of the following certifications (or equivalent experience):</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate or Solutions Architect Expert</span></li></ul><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span style="font-weight:bold;background-color:white">Highly Preferred Skills/ Experience:</span></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span style="font-style:italic;background-color:white">Education & Certifications</span></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span style="background-color:white">Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field.</span></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span style="font-style:italic;background-color:white">Technical Skills:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Direct experience in managed services/NOC/SOC/MSP environments is a plus.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">In-depth expertise in provisioning, configuring, securing, supporting, and optimizing Linux-based systems (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.) in enterprise environments.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Basic expertise with cloud-native and hybrid workloads in AWS, Azure, GCP, and/or OCI.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Strong experience in managing compute, storage, networking, and system services on Linux platforms.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Proficient in system architecture, deployment, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of Linux servers.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Skilled in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, and Perl for automation and system management.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Proficient in using ServiceNow ITSM for incident, change, and problem management.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Strong understanding of Linux-based backup strategies, disaster recovery planning, and high-availability configurations (e.g., Pacemaker, DRBD).</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Familiar with security tools and practices including SELinux, iptables, auditd, and fail2ban.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Experience with vulnerability assessment and patch management using tools like Qualys, OpenSCAP, or Lynis.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Proficient in log analysis and system monitoring using tools such as Syslog, Logrotate, Nagios, Prometheus, and Grafana.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Familiar with endpoint protection and threat detection tools such as CrowdStrike and OSSEC.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Strong knowledge of user access control, SSH key management, and secure file transfer protocols.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Ability to troubleshoot Linux services such as Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Samba..</span></li><li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10.5pt;background-color:white">Be able to support customer self-provision cloud instances with required security (guardrail) via Azure Blueprints, AWS Control Tower, etc.</span></li></ul><p style="margin-top:0.0px;margin-bottom:0.0px;vertical-align:middle;color:black"> </p><p style="margin-top:0.0px;margin-bottom:0.0px;vertical-align:middle;color:black"> </p><p>Where required by law, NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for specific roles. The starting pay range for this role will depend on the nature of the role offered and will either be $68,000- $78,202, or $62.95/hr if the role is hired as a temporary position. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.</p><p> </p><p>This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance. If the position offered in temporary, the position will not be eligible for incentive compensation.</p><p> </p><p>This position is eligible for company benefits that will depend on the nature of the role offered. Company benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending or health savings account, life and AD&D insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits<em>.</em></p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"> </p><p style="margin:0.0in;margin-left:0.375in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><u>About NTT DATA</u></strong></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:11.0px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">NTT DATA is a $30 + billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:11.0px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Whenever possible, we hire locally to NTT DATA offices or client sites. This ensures we can provide timely and effective support tailored to each client’s needs. While many positions offer remote or hybrid work options, these arrangements are subject to change based on client requirements. 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