Senior Linux Administrator

Date Posted: 05/14/2025

Hiring Organization: Rose International

Position Number: 482676

Job Title: Senior Linux Administrator

Job Location: Kansas City, MO, USA, 64108

Work Model: Onsite

Employment Type: Temporary

Estimated Duration (In months): 7

Min Hourly Rate($): 54.66

Max Hourly Rate($): 58.87

Must Have Skills/Attributes: Azure, PowerShell, Python, VMWare

Job Description
Education:
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Knowledge in the following is preferred:
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
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
Strong Communications Skills, both verbal and written
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
Ability to work independently to achieve goals
Ability to work as part of a strong technical delivery team to deliver computing needs

Role Overview:
Middle to Senior Linux Administrator with VMware and/or Nutanix Hypervisor knowledge and experience.
Linux (SUSE, RHEL, CentOS, BSD)
VMware
Ansible is a plus
Linux based security would be a plus as well
10 to 15 years Infrastructure experience
1 to 3 years virtual infrastructure experience

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
Individuals are responsible for Linux operational support, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades and expansion, and 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)

• **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

• **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client's business needs and requirements.**

Benefits:
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Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.

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Rose International has an official agreement (ID #132522), effective June 30, 2008, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Employment Verification Program (E-Verify). (Posting required by OCGA 13/10-91.).