| Duties: | Position Length: Contract 6 months and hire after that Key technologies: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Administration, Automation using Ansible, OS and Server Life cycle management Nice to haves: Experience with patching technologies using Satellite, Tanium Interview process: Video Interview with team Location: Phoenix AZ Option for Remote?: Yes |
| Skills: | We are seeking an experienced Linux Administrator to join our Operations Team. The Linux Administrator needs to have a deep and broad knowledge of computer software, hardware, and networks and will be responsible for designing, organizing, modifying, and supporting our systems. Essential Responsibilities: - Linux systems implementation
- Full IT system lifecycle administration from installation to decommissioning of systems in both physical data center and cloud
- Perform end to end management of on-premise and cloud based Linux systems
- Responsible for ensuring uptime of critical business systems and infrastructure through monitoring and timely remediation of critical infrastructure issues
- Measurement, optimization, and tuning of system performance and ensuring that systems will run reliably and are highly available in a 24/7 production environment
- Proactively monitor the health and utilization of systems
- Install, harden and patch Linux operating systems
- Plan, coordinate, and execute installation of new releases and upgrades of hardware/software
- Develop automation with Ansible, bash, python, or related technologies
- Serve on a rotating 24/7 on-call support team
- Embrace Infrastructure-as-Code
- Support incident management resolution and root cause analysis
- Assist in defining and designing system specifications and procedures
- Ensures adherence to all regulatory compliance processes and requirements
- Support security audits, accreditation, and certification processes
- Partner with GRC teams to lead deployment of secure and compliant systems and services on-prem and in the cloud
- Partner with application teams to understand performance and capacity requirements of solutions and services
- Create procedure documentation and develop SOPs and run books
- Update existing documentation and identify and draft new documentation where appropriate
- Stay up to date on best practices involving Linux based systems and recommend changes to keep systems and infrastructure secure and robust
What would make us excited about you? - Information Systems, Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree or equivalent experience
- Intimate and extensive knowledge of Linux Administration and Engineering
- 4+ years of hands-on IT systems or relevant experience in a commercial production environment
- 4+ years of experience in Linux Administration
- 4+ years of experience troubleshooting skills in a multi-user high availability environment.
- Working knowledge of RedHat Satellite
- Experience with Veritas Infoscale preferred.
- Experience with compliance and patch management tools like Tanium & Qualys
- Familiar with DevOps toolchain, i.e. BitBucket, JIRA, Jenkins Pipeline
- Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work alternative coverage schedules.
- Strong initiative and passionate about learning new technologies.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- AWS configuration, deployment and support experience
- Exposure to distributed systems networking concepts & protocols
- Experience with monitoring tools
- Fundamental Understanding of Networking & Security
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