Senior Linux Systems Engineer

Fluence is the leading global energy storage technology and services company, created and backed by Siemens and AES, two industry powerhouses and pioneers in energy storage. Fluence unites the scale, experience, breadth, and financial backing of the two most experienced icons in energy storage.

Our mission is to create a more sustainable future by transforming the way we power our world. Energy storage is critical to this transformation, yet today the market is fragmented and customers face the challenge of finding a trusted technology partner amidst conflicting technical claims, inexperienced vendors and installers, and new market entrants with limited power sector knowledge.

Fluence brings the proven technology solutions and services that overcome the commercial and regulatory barriers that stand in the way of modernizing our energy networks. We are the partner that can deliver at a global scale with the most experienced and knowledgeable team in the world.

About Fluence: Fluence Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader in energy storage products and services, and optimization software for renewables and storage. With a presence in over 47 markets globally, Fluence provides an ecosystem of offerings to drive the clean energy transition, including modular, scalable energy storage products, comprehensive service offerings, and the Fluence IQ Platform, which delivers AI-enabled SaaS products for managing and optimizing renewables and storage from any provider. Fluence is transforming the way we power our world by helping customers create more resilient and sustainable electric grids.

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We are guided by our passion to transform the way we power our world. Achieving our goals requires creativity, diversity of ideas and backgrounds, and building trust to effect change and move with speed.

Fluence currently has thousands of MW of energy storage projects operated or awarded worldwide in addition to the thousands of MW of projects managed by our trading platform—and we are growing every day.

Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity.

We achieve our goals and meet our customer’s needs by cultivating curiosity, adaptability, and self-reflection in our teams.

We value the diversity in thought and experience of our coworkers and customers. Through honest, forthcoming, and respectful communications we work to ensure that Fluence is an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. 

The Senior Linux System Engineer will work with other Information Systems team colleagues within Fluence to monitor, service and troubleshooting the Fluence global fleet of deployed energy storage systems.

Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity. We take personal ownership in what we do, developing trust in our relationships with internal and external stakeholders. We firmly believe in having honest, forthcoming, and fair communications. The Linux Systems Engineer will:

•Develop integrations with popular solutions to monitor various services including both network and software applications.

•Create user-friendly technical documentation

•Perform software deployment, configuration, update, patches and other software lifecycle activities.

•Work closely with the development and Technical Support teams.

•Work with both external vendors, customers and other groups to coordinate and conduct schedule and ad-hoc testing

•Complete initialization and configuration of project DAS (SCADA) systems for each project.

•Work with other team members to drive team achievement of KPI-centered goals and objectives.

•Develop new tools, implement processes, provide feedback, and work with other stakeholders to ensure continuous improvement of project handover.

•Complete requisite training and professional development activities to stay abreast of industry state-of-the-art tools and best practices.

•Ability to work in a manner consistent with the Fluence values of Leading, Agile, Responsible, and Fun.

•8+ years of Linux operating system experience for system administration, preferably using Red Hat/Fedora, Ubuntu, or Debian.

•Fundamental understanding of Networking.

•Experience with security - hardening of Linux systems.

•Experience with DAS(SCADA) Applications like Mango DAS.

•Experience with taking backups of the OS, configurations and restoring from them.

•Experience with AWS Cloud Infrastructure Maintenance, Configuration and backups.

•Experience with orchestration tools like Ansible, Salt or Puppet.

•Experience with Agile development methodologies (Scrum).

•Experience in the following programming languages: Javascript, Ruby.

•Experience capturing day to day activities in JIRA.

•Strong knowledge of Git.

•Proven success on challenging projects where you made key contributions while demonstrating ownership, creativity, and initiative.

•Competence in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

•BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Mathematics from an accredited university is preferred.

•Strong bash scripting required (Python/Ruby is a plus).

•Familiarity with monitoring tools like Zabbix is preferred.