Linux Systems Engineer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Linux Systems Engineer for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Alpharetta, GA.

Responsibilities:

• Managing the system platforms, including build and upgrade, query review and tuning, and production support, and related infrastructure and administration services for mission-critical systems in a fast-paced environment for brokerage, banking, and related financial and other business/enterprise applications.
• Report to the VP manager of Systems Engineering / Hybrid Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Group and will require strong team interaction with Systems, application and development staff/peers, other engineering, and operations group members within the IT organization, as well as with application and business development teams.
• Plans upgrades of hardware and applications / systems enhancements / OS patches / HW patches, firmware.
• Develops and conducts tests to ensure solutions meet documented user requirements.
• Identifies, analyzes, and resolves system problems.
• Performing hardware maintenance and repair activities using DRAC/ILOM.
• Respond, investigate, and resolve technical incidents requiring advanced problem-solving analysis and use of advanced diagnostic tools to troubleshoot issues.
• Work with Facilities to troubleshoot server related network and SAN issues.
• Initiate server problems with Vendors and coordinate with Facilities for onsite repair.

Required Skills:

• 5 Years Linux experience
• 5 Hardware Server experience
• 5 Red Hat / CentOS experience
• Strong Linux skill set across provisioning, supporting, securing, and troubleshooting Linux. Strong Server hardware trouble shooting skills (Dell Servers preferred).
• Practical understanding of networking such as network bonding, routing, subnets, UDP, TCP, IP, & VLANs
• Understanding of basic disk configuration work for Linux servers (file system creation, expansion, migration, and troubleshooting).
• Working knowledge of VMware virtualization using vCenter.
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) support experience.

Preferred Skills:

• Provides support for Linux/Centos/RHEL Servers and Infrastructure, both on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and on-site.
• Scripting, automation, and familiarity with Puppet/Ansible is preferred.

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