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ID #20104985
State Texas
City Remote
Job type Contract
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Beacon Hill Technologies
Showed 2021-09-23
Date 2021-09-23
Deadline 2021-11-21
Category Et cetera
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Sr. Linux Administrator

Texas, Remote, 75270 Remote USA

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Job Purpose:

The Linux Administrator Sr. is an experienced IT professional responsible for system deployment, configuration management, documentation, patch management, system availability, disaster recovery, hardware/software redundancy, and security configuration. The Linux Administrator Sr. will work in concert with team members, management, and other company organizations to achieve the company's goals.

Essential Duties

  • 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
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • 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

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • 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.)
Preferred Qualifications

  • 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)

Beacon Hill is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength diversity brings to the workplace. Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Company Profile:

Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs.

Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming/Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production/Support and ERP roles.

Learn more about Beacon Hill Staffing Group and our specialty divisions, Beacon Hill Associates, Beacon Hill Financial, Beacon Hill HR, Beacon Hill Legal, Beacon Hill Life Sciences and Beacon Hill Technologies by visiting www.beaconhillstaffing.com.

We look forward to working with you.

Beacon Hill. Employing the Future

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