Unix Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Unix Engineer. This is a 06+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Roseville, MN(Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 26-24211

Pay Range: $70/hr - $75/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer and optimize enterprise Linux/Unix infrastructure across hybrid environments.
• Support private and public cloud infrastructure while maintaining high availability and operational resilience.
• Build and improve automated deployment, configuration, and operational workflows.
• Perform infrastructure upgrades, migrations, patching, and lifecycle management activities.
• Monitor system health, investigate incidents, and proactively improve platform stability.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, networking, and application teams to deliver reliable enterprise solutions.
• Maintain technical documentation and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to modernize operational workflows through automation, intelligent tooling, and emerging infrastructure technologies.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience administering enterprise Linux/Unix infrastructure.
• Strong experience deploying, maintaining, and optimizing both physical (bare metal) and virtualized server environments.
• Experience building, configuring, and supporting private cloud platforms using OpenStack or similar infrastructure technologies.
• Ability to perform platform upgrades, migrations, lifecycle management, and environment modernization with minimal downtime.
• Experience provisioning and managing enterprise storage services, block storage, and distributed storage platforms.
• Strong background administering Linux servers, with working knowledge of Windows Server environments.
• Experience monitoring infrastructure health, identifying system bottlenecks, and resolving performance issues before they impact production.
• Hands-on experience supporting cloud infrastructure across one or more public cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with virtualization and container technologies including VMware, KVM, Kubernetes, OpenShift Virtualization, or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security best practices including operating system hardening, patch governance, vulnerability remediation, and access controls.
• Solid knowledge of enterprise networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SSH, HTTP/HTTPS, routing, and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Experience working with enterprise-grade compute and storage infrastructure, including SAN technologies, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, and storage platforms such as NetApp, Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with authentication and identity management technologies including Active Directory, LDAP, and centralized authentication services.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management using tools such as Ansible, AWX, or similar orchestration platforms.
• Working knowledge of scripting languages such as Bash or Shell for automating operational tasks.
• Ability to create and maintain technical documentation, implementation guides, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional infrastructure, networking, security, and application teams.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Comfortable working independently while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced enterprise environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Industry certifications such as RHCSA, RHCE, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA), or equivalent.
• Exposure to Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD practices, or DevOps methodologies.
• Experience evaluating and implementing intelligent automation solutions that streamline operational processes, reduce repetitive administrative work, and improve infrastructure efficiency through modern AI-driven technologies.
• Familiarity with observability, infrastructure monitoring, and operational analytics platforms.

Our client is a leading IT Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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