Linux System Administrator

Qualifications:

Linux System Administrator

Requirements:

• 3 to 5 yrs RedHat Linux administration, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and patching professional experience.
• Experience using Satellite for Linux Patching.
• Automation and orchestration technologies, including Ansible (Playbooks 7 Tower), Python, PowerShell, etc.)
• Experience with using Github or other version control tools for source code management
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Knowledge of VMWare
• Understanding of Storage & Blade Technologies that integrate with Virtualization
• Progressive knowledge pertaining to concepts and principles in functional area.
• General working knowledge of NAS, SAN, and networking
• Agile practices, including Scrum and Kanban practices (strongly desired)
• Familiar with BigFix is a plus
• Familiar with RHEV is a plus
• Familiar with Oracle RAC is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Regular System Administrator activities including but not limited to:
• Performs moderate level infrastructure support tasks, maintenance, configuration and troubleshooting and provides resolution of problem tickets.
• Implements upgrades and patches. Recommends and remediates problems and vulnerabilities to meet customer needs and maintain a stable environment.
• Participate in disaster recovery exercise
• Applies analytics on past data like incidents and patterns for predicting issues and takes proactive actions
• Experience in identifying toil in Operating Systems and Build self-services and contribute towards developing coding best practices
• Develop automated process for lifecycle management, OS software management, and configuration management
• Execute Linux OS maintenance.
• Participates in the on-call rotation
• Practices change control and applies strict adherence to FRIT change control policy and follows all change guidelines.

Hours of Work

• Initial work schedule: Monday – Friday, then will transition to either Tuesday-Saturday OR Sunday-Thursday