Linux System Administrator

About the role

The Linux System Administrator is responsible for applying Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu, CentOS, Suse and Debian concepts and industry best practices to resolve complex issues, provide daily operational management of private and public cloud Linux server instances, maintain thorough documentation of procedures and system configurations, select methods and techniques to obtain solutions, evaluate technologies, perform cost / benefit analysis, and complete additional work assigned by the manager and lead.

Responsibilities

• Administer various distributions and open-source applications of the Linux operating system
• Works closely with other System Administrators, Application Engineers, Developers, Cyber Security professionals, Systems Engineers, and Operations specialists to provide top-quality secure computing and storage services to a variety of customers
• Manage data center computing operations while maintaining strict operational security requirements and directives – implement latest computer security policies and procedures
• Develop and manage the computing and infrastructure systems on private and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Provide creative problem solving, critical thinking, and advanced troubleshooting across a broad domain of secure computing systems and support activities
• Perform proactive performance monitoring, analysis, alerting, reporting, and tuning as well as proactive capacity planning/analysis and provisioning solutions
• Cook up and execute approved changes during maintenance windows in a 24 × 7 on-call environments

Requirements

This classification requires a minimum of seven (7) years of experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Suse, Debian Linux. Four (4) years of experience in developing Ansible playbooks, Shell, and Python scripts. Ability to author and implement automation for complex operational and administrative tasks. Experience with security tools and threat mitigation technologies such as McAfee, CISCO AMP, Nessus Tenable, Tanium, and Dell Secureworks Red Cloak. Experience with VMware, Vcenter, and ESXi.

Qualifications

This classification requires the possession of a bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.