Please send resume in Word format if you are interested in the Linux Systems Administrator opportunity in Chester, NY 10918. Hybrid schedule offered (2 days remote/3 in-office). Position is direct hire and offers great benefits! Linux is essential.

Other items to note: employee will be on a 4 weeks off, 2 weeks on on-call rotation Salary range is $75K-$90K.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Creation/Deployment of VMs using VMWare, building and integrating systems based of business requirements, and working with different teams to validate interfaces.
• Maintenance and monitoring of development & testing equipment running Red Hat Linux. Troubleshooting with development teams, making OS changes, testing changes and documenting changes for hand off to production teams.
• Responsible for changes, validation and deployment of functionality of enterprise level DNS/DHCP infrastructure Build and modify Ansible jobs to provision new RHEL systems via Satellite; setup other OS automations to streamline repetitive administration via Ansible Tower/Satellite 6 system.
• Keep abreast of latest changes, vulnerabilities and feature availability for Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Directory Services, Ansible, GlusterFS, Splunk, vCenter, NGNIX.
• Perform hardware and software installations, upgrades, and troubleshooting of OS, provisioning, email and web-based applications.
• Perform resource monitoring, performance tuning and scaling of infrastructure as needed on RHEL systems.
• Customize scripts to kickstart RHEL systems; setup Ansible automations to streamline repetitive administration.
• Maintain and apply changes necessary on 2-factor authentication platform and apply understanding of SSSD and DUO-SAML.
• Work closely with application support & security teams to maintain up-to-date patch levels and application specific feature configuration.
• Document Linux configurations and procedures participate in environment planning meetings and communicate environment requirements to management.
• Participate in on-call rotation and work to resolve critical issues 24/7

EXPERIENCE/SKILLS:

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, CS or related field required.
• 3-5 years’ experience with RHEL versions 7/8, CentOS, system administration in an enterprise environment required.
• 2-4 years’ experience supporting web, NGINX, HAProxy and LB
• 1-2 years’ experience working with and support VMWare & vCenter v6.
• 1-2 years’ experience in network support
• Ability to multitask and or related support mechanisms for escalation/resolution purposes.
• Understanding of PHP, NGINX, Ansible, HAProxy, 2-factor authentication, sssd, firewalld, LDAP/LDAPS setup, GITLAB, python
• Knowledge of Internet server protocols and utilities (DNS, DHCP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, HTTP/S, SSL, TLS, S/FTP, TCP/IP, SSH, iptables)
• Knowledge of security hardening and system performance tuning
• Advanced enterprise level skills in shell scripting and programming with vi editor.
• Knowledge of enterprise Technologies (Ansible Automation Software, NFS, Kickstart, RedHat Satellite 6, Active Directory, RHEL 8 features, performance analysis tools such as AppDynamics, mail, SELINUX/firewalld.
• Experience with troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with little supervision (email, network, hardware, OS).
• Understanding of RHEL and/or software-based cluster configurations and concepts such as keepalived.
• Performance tuning and monitoring (Nagios)
• Technical documentation skills.
• Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgement.
• Working knowledge of Splunk, GlusterFS, NetApp, Cisco UCS helpful

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