System Administrator { Cloud Platform Engineer

Role:System Administrator 

 Skills / Technology :  OS/Infrastructure (OS, Load Balancer, DNS, Storage, Firewall)

  Location: San Jose CA 

The Challenge

 Client  is seeking as UNIX Administrator with excellent technical, process and automation skills to be part of High-Performance Cloud Operations Team.  As an Infrastructure Administrator, this person is responsible for the daily administration of Linux and Unix servers in a business application environment. This includes general system administration tasks, software and hardware support, system configuration, system monitoring. This person must have excellent Linux/Unix administration experience, with customer relation skills. Candidate should be able to work with business application administrators, helping troubleshoot their applications and guide them with standard methodologies. Candidate must be able to express thoughts clearly and capable of working in a team or as a sole contributor. Individual should be self-motivated with very good communication skills. Main point responsible for the overall operability, resiliency, performance, and capacity of owned production services.

 What you’ll do

• System Administration - This person would be responsible for the day-to-day administration of all Linux based servers. This includes monitoring the trouble ticket queue, system troubleshooting, hardware and software system changes, scripting, patching, system performance monitoring, system sizing, system integration, upgrade implementation, and hardware diagnostics.
• Application support – This person would work with application administrators to help fix and fine-tune applications and also if required guide application administrators in standard processes related to using the underlying UNIX infrastructure.
• Documentation – Maintain all system documentation.

What you need to succeed

• Unix/Linux System Administration: In-depth experience with Unix/Linux servers (especially Suse, AIX, RHEL, CentOS) for installation, configuration, patching, and troubleshooting.
• Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python) and automation tools (Ansible, etc.) to streamline deployments and manage configurations.
• Demonstrable ability to perform UNIX builds, 
• Understanding of RedHat Satellite, IBM NIM, or SUSE Manager for patch management. 
• Networking Knowledge: Strong grasp of networking (TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, etc.) and system connectivity for effective troubleshooting in distributed environments.
• Working knowledge of Virtual machine management (VmWare, OpenShift) TCP/IP functionality, networking, Remote administration, cloning, migration, etc.
• Security Best Practices: Expertise in system security – user access controls, OS hardening, patch management, and compliance. 
• Soft Skills: Strong communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills to collaborate across teams and resolve complex issues efficiently.
• Operational experience with Ansible and Terraform are beneficial.