Linux/Unix Administrator (Mid-Sr. Level)(HYBRID ONSITE/REMOTE)

Knoxville, TN | Linux/Unix Administrator (Mid-Senior Level) | Full time

We are actively recruiting a Linux/Unix Administrator (Mid-Senior Level) for our client in Knoxville, TN. This position is a contract-to-hire. This position is a remote position, but the professional must be in/around the Knoxville, TN area (up to 1 hour away). Due to client request, qualified candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the team to define and implement best practices and standards within the organization
• Automate systems administration tasks utilizing open-source configuration management tools
• Assist with designing, building, and maintaining HPC Linux systems
• Tune operating systems and applications to increase performance and reliability of services
• Diagnose system operational problems quickly and effectively
• Document system administration procedures for routine and complex tasks
• Participate in an on-call rotation providing 24-hour, 7-day support and off-hours maintenance windows
• Coordinate with vendors to resolve hardware and software problems

Experience:

• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, and the ability to work as part of a team
• Unix system fundamentals and common network protocols
• Managing Linux/UNIX operating systems in a heterogeneous environment.
• Deploying and maintaining automated configuration management software such as Puppet or Ansible
• Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting, Postfix, OpenLDAP, NetApp filers, VMware, Puppet/Ansible, Git, Scripting (Python, Bash, Go)
• Building custom packages for RHEL/CentOS using RPM
• Networked computing environment concepts
• Develop and maintain programs and scripts that aid in the operation and automation of administrative tasks using various shell and scripting languages (primarily bash and Python, some Go)
• Identify requirements and to define, plan, and implement requisite solutions
• Plan, organize, prioritize tasks, and complete assigned projects with minimal supervision
• Continuous integration and continuous deployment software methodologies and how they apply to systems engineering
• Code review and familiarity with tools like GitHub and GitLab
• Grafana and Nagios to monitor systems, metrics, and create dashboards
• Designing and implement highly available systems/services
• In an open-source community with patches accepted upstream
• Deploying and maintaining virtualized environments using VMWare
• Implementing systems-level security technologies like SELinux and following security best-practices

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or closely related field
• 5 years of experience in Linux/UNIX Systems Administration.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
• Must be able to obtain a security clearance

“Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled”