Sr Linux Administrator

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent

Skills

linux

Job Details

Job Duties:

  • Individuals are 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. This position will lead the containerization effort for Datacenter services.
  • 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)
  • Knowledge and use of containerization platforms (Docker, OpenShift)
  • Scripting languages (PowerShell, bash, python)

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of Linux Administration experience
  • 2+ year of experience in 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
  • Strong Communications Skills, both verbal and written
  • Ability to work independently to achieve goals
  • Ability to work as part of a strong technical delivery team to deliver computing needs

Nice to have:

  • 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)
  • 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
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