Systems Administrator - IV, Virginia

Qualifications:

Linux System Administrator

Dallas or Richmond preference

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 Client 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