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- Works with leadership to set priorities, goals, and tasks
- Works independently on tasks with minimal supervision
- Provides assistance to junior team members
- Design, implement, and manage Linux systems
- Participate weekly in change and patch management meetings and windows
- Manage operating system security in accordance with industry best practices and company policy
- Manage patches, system maintenance, and maintain patching schedule with stakeholders
- Plan hardware capacity based on the scope, use, and projected growth
- Collaborate with other team members and management to deliver customized and scalable solutions
- Create, maintain, and follow technical documentation detailing system configurations, procedures, and standards
- Participate in team meetings and other meetings as required
- Develop and implement tools, processes, and automation where possible to increase efficiency, reliability, scalability, availability, and security
- Proactively analyze and diagnose existing system performance to improve availability and scalability or to respond to outages or degraded performance
- Act as a subject-matter expert on OS/infrastructure
- Plan, implement, and complete projects, meeting team and organizational goals
- Familiarity with security vulnerability response and working with multiple teams and applications to remediate
- Perform other duties as assigned
- A strong desire to learn, teach, document, and practice new skills
- Expert at solving complex problems and troubleshooting issues
- Highly self-motivated and able to work independently as well as in a team environment
- Strong interpersonal communication skills including listening, speaking, and writing with the ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other associates
- Excellent decision-making, problem-solving, and collaboration skills
- Strong organization skills, with emphasis on detail and follow-up
- Ability to lead and work in projects autonomously
- Capability of effective planning and priority setting
- Proven record of dealing with challenges and meeting conflicting demands
- Ability to work well under pressure in production support situations with limited supervision
- Minimum of 7 years' experience in IT operations to include:
- 5 years' Linux administration experience supporting enterprise environments
- Solid understanding of the Linux OS (RHEL 7+/CentOS 7+/Ubuntu 18.04+) and its components (kernel, system, libraries, job scheduling, and package management)
- Intermediate BASH or Python scripting skills, including understanding, modifying, and creating scripts
- Solid understanding of fundamental network protocols such as routing, TCP/IP, DNS, SNMP, SSL/TLS, and HTTP
- Solid understanding of LVM, filesystem types, and partitioning
- Extensive understanding of Intel Servers (HP, Lenovo/IBM, SuperMicro, or Dell) including remote access, troubleshooting, booting, firmware, and configuration
- Understanding of security best practices such as CIS, SELinux, Firewalls, PAM, etc.
- Extensive experience with OS patching and patching tools (RPM, YUM, repos)
- Hands-on experience with management tools such as SaltStack, Ansible, etc.
- Experience with PXE booting Linux-based OS installs (ex. kickstart, Cobbler, FAI, etc.)
- Ability and willingness to work after-hours on occasion (nights, evenings, weekends, on-call rotation, etc.)
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering or equivalent combination of experience and education
- Multi-generation Dell hardware experience (10th-14th)
- Understanding of version controls systems (Git, BitBucket, etc.)
- Professional experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, PCF/Tanzu, etc.
- Experience with VMware vCenter and general understanding of virtualization
- Professional experience with public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with modern tools such as Jira and Confluence
- Experience participating in IT compliance audits (PCI, SOX, FedRAMP, etc.)
- Hands on experience with SAN storage (Fibre Channel, Multipath, PowerPath, etc.)
- Familiarity with MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL
- Experience with managing 100's of servers
- One or more advanced certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, AWS Cloud Practitioner)
Vacancy expired!