Job Title: Unix/Linux System Administrator – Night Shift
Location: Eagan, MN
Visa: GC and USC
NOTE: The position is for nights Monday through Friday 9pm to 5:30am CT. First month will be full time on-site.
Job Description:
We are seeking a Senior UNIX/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. 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:
Bachelors 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).
Senior in 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 – US Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder), and 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)