Linux Operations Administrator - 3rd Shift (9pm-5:30am)
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
Description
3rd Shift: The position is for nights Monday through Friday 9pm to 5:30am CT
Top Skills
- 7+ year of experience Linux Server Administration in 500+ Server environment (Redhat, SuSE preferred)
Working knowledge of configuration management tools; Redhat Satellite Server, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or otherExperience using command line and any scripting (shell, bash, or other languages will be considered)
We are seeking a Linux System Administrator to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be in Eagan, MN. This is an on-site position with potential hybrid remote possibilities. First month will be full time on-site. Details to be discussed during screening.
The Night Shift resource will join the Midrange System Administration teams and provide UNIX / Linux System Administration services for an assigned set of applications. The scope includes the full range of system life-cycle phases including, Build, Application /Service Provisioning, Operations and Decommissioning.
Roles And Responsibilities Include But Not Limited To
Unix / Linux System Administration Installation and maintenance of OS Contributor to Incident, Problem and Change Management processes. User Support / Problem resolution
Basic Qualifications
To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 5 years’ experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree. Experience dealing with management of large (>1000 systems) environments Experience with Linux (SuSE and Red Hat) Have some understanding with configuration management of large environments, utilizing automation tools such as: Chef, Puppet, Ansible or other configuration management frameworks. Ability to take customer requirements and create scalable configuration models to support them Process Implementation and documentation Experience using Change/Incident Management tools (ServiceNow) Linux OS Administration. Ability to troubleshoot problems from the Application tier, through the OS and Network tiers. Unix Shell Scripting Must be able to obtain a Position of Public Trust Clearance – must not have traveled outside the US for a combined total of 6 months or more in last 5 years. Must have resided in the US for the last 5 years
Preferred Qualifications
Candidates with these desired skills will be given preferential consideration:
Expertise with custom AutoYaST and Kickstart deployments Expertise with SMT and custom patch solutions for SuSE and Red Hat systems Expertise Ansible / Anisible Tower Expertise with Cassandra Expertise with Oracle CRS (installation/configuration/maintenance) Experience with Kafka Experience with Hadoop SOX/PCI Compliance Management Local to the Eagan, MN area, no relocation assistance provide.
Skills
Linux, Unix, Unix shell script, Redhat/SuSe, Scripting, Rhel, Cloud
Top Skills Details
Linux,Unix,Unix shell script,Redhat/SuSe,Scripting,Rhel
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Experience supporting large enterprise Linux (RedHat/SuSE) environments (1000 systems+) - Experience with Patch Management - Expertise with GIT/ GitLab/Ansible/Anisible Tower
Experience Level
Intermediate Level
About TEKsystems
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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