Sr. Linux Administrator

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 6 Month(s)

Skills

Ansible
Bash
Capacity Management
Cisco
Cisco UCS
Computer Networking
DNS
DSC
Dell
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
EMC
Enterprise Service Bus
FC
Hyper-V
Hypervisor
IaaS
Linux
Management
Marketing Operations
Microsoft Azure
NFS
NetApp
PaaS
Progress Chef
Provisioning
Puppet
Servers
Python
Replication
Routing Protocols
SLES
Scripting
Server Message Block
Storage
Switches
TCP/IP
Terraform
VMware
Virtualization
Windows PowerShell
iSCSI

Job Details

Sr. Linux Administrator
Summary
The Sr. Linux Administrator (Specialist, IS Infra Platforms Linux) will be responsible for Linux operational support, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, and expansion, as well as 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.
Responsibilities

  • Provide direction and advice pertaining to capacity planning.
  • Provide directions and advice pertaining to future installations and design.
  • Provide direction to automate and orchestrate future use of Linux environments (Tanium, Orchestrator, automation suites).
  • Manage configurations utilizing Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Desired State Configuration (DSC), scripting languages (PowerShell, BASH, Python).

Requirements

  • Bachelor s Degree or equivalent experience.
  • 10 to 15 years of infrastructure experience.
  • 1 to 3 years virtual infrastructure experience.

Preferred

  • Experienced with the following technologies:
    • Virtualization technologies using VMware/Nutanix/Hyper-V (MS suite);
    • Cluster (SLES, RH);
    • 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);
    • 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.


This is a 6 month Contract for Hire opportunity with our Kanas City, MO client. 100% Paid employee Medical/Dental Benefits, Paid time off, Paid Holidays, and 401(k) (with immediately vested company match) available with TriCom during the contract period. No third-parties, please.

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