Senior Software Engineer I - OL (MA)

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Position Summary:  

Perforce is searching for a Senior Systems Engineer to produce hardened Enterprise Linux images by managing and extending workflows, automations, and operations to configure Linux packages, services, users/groups to produce distributable secure Enterprise Linux VMs and Containers. 

Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams 
• Design and develop distributed systems, ensuring fault tolerance, scalability, and performance. 
• Integrate various components to ensure seamless operation. 
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of practices within the team 
• May be required to support additional products/brands as needed. 

Requirements: 

• Extensive experience configuring Linux distributions for use in VMs and Containers  
• Familiar with Linux package management and configuration  
• Understand service configuration, user configuration and group management  
• Understand Linux network facing service configuration, and sudo and ssh configuration  
• Knowledge about Packer for VM configuration  
• Docker experience and thorough understanding of configuration Linux configurations through Dockerfiles 
• Strong experience with automation using shell scripting / Python / Perl, etc  
• Experience automating processes and workflows, and using CI systems  
• C Programming on Linux
• Beneficial, not required:  
• Experience using Comply from Puppet for configuration  
• Jenkins pipeline experience  
• Experience with hardening Linux images  
• Familiarity with CIS Benchmarks  
• Experience with Scrum

Come work with us! Our team members are valued for their contributions, introduced to new opportunities, and rewarded well. Perforce combines the experience and rewards of a start-up with the security of an established and privately held profitable company.

If you are passionate about the technology that impacts our day-to-day lives and want to work with talented and dedicated people across the globe, apply today!

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