Linux Engineer
IA
Contracted
Experienced
Dear Folks,
I trust this email finds you thriving. If you are open to new professional challenges and seeking a role where your skills can truly shine, I encourage you to consider this opportunity.
If you find this opportunity aligns with your career goals and interests, we kindly request that you send us your resume to [email protected] by 18 Nov. 2024 at your earliest convenience.
Requisition Class: TSV2: TS2
Job Title: REQ750358 - IA-DOM-IWD-TS2-Linux Engineer
Client: IWD: Iowa Workforce Development
Work Location: 1000 E GRAND AVE., IA, US, (Hybrid)
Estimated Start Date: 12/02/2024
Estimated End Date: 02/24/2025
Description:
The position requires someone that is detail oriented with a strong desire to provide exceptional service. The system administrator will be responsible for improving the stability and performance of various operating systems, maintaining and improving the security posture of the systems, continuous monitoring of system health, and troubleshooting issues that arise.
The Systems Administrator is accountable as the primary resource for the Linux environment and will serve as a backup to the Windows System administrators as well as the applications that support the enterprise infrastructure and business critical services. Responsibilities on these systems include the administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and performance of VMware systems, hosting hardware, Linux servers and Microsoft Windows servers.
This is a 3 month contract with a high likelihood to extend. Please limit submittals to candidates who are local, and who can work for any employer in the USA, making them eligible to be hired directly by the state if selected.
Responsibilities include:
• Engineering of Linux systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs.
• Fluent in various flavors of Linux: CentOS, RHEL and Oracle Enterprise Linux
• Install and configure Linux servers and application residing on Linux servers
• Develops and maintains appropriate system documentation to ensure that documentation is current.
• Contribute to and maintain system standards.
• Provide Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
• Virtual Center administration and troubleshooting
• Strong knowledge of Windows Server administration
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; including documentation
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure/add new services as necessary.
• Upgrade and configure system software that supports infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
• Provides backup to Sr. Windows Engineer and Storage and Virtualization Engineer as needed
Skill
• System administration experience in Linux environments and proficient in tasks such as analyzing log files, managing user accounts and groups - 5 Years
• Windows Systems Administration and Active Directory - 3 Years
• Strong knowledge of MS Windows 2008, 2012, 2016 servers - 3 Years
• Experience troubleshooting system level problems including server failure and OS tun-ing - 3 Years
• The ability to create and manage BASH scripting - 3 Years
• The ability to schedule and manage Cron Jobs - 3 Years
• Experience configuring and managing Apache Web servers including SSL Certificate configuration, reverse proxy and load balancing configuration - 3 Years
• Ability to effectively communicate (verbal & written correspondence) in a professional and courteous manner with technical and non-technical personnel - 3 Years
• Will be required to be accessible 24x7 in case of emergency - 3 Years
• Hands on VMware experience, including vSphere and administration of VMware clus-ters - 3 Years
• Experience with Samba, CIFS and NFS mounts - 3 Years
• Experience with Nagios monitoring software - 3 Years
• associates degree or tech school - 3 Years
• The ability to setup and configure systemd services - 3 Years
• Experience with VMware Horizon View Virtual Desktop - 3 Years
• Experience configuring and managing other application server and middleware tech-nologies such as JBoss, AS/Wildfly, IBM MQseries - 3 Years
• Configuring and managing Apache Tomcat is a plus - 3 Years
• SOLR experience is a plus - 3 Years
• Alfresco experience is a plus - 3 Years
• Experience with DBMS software including, but not limited to, Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server and MongoDB - 3 Years
• Strong knowledge of Active Directory and Terminal Services - 3 Years
• Strong knowledge of DNS, DHCP, LDAP, SMTP and TCP/IP networking - 3 Years
• Knowledge of SAN storage, VMFS, iSCSI, NFS, etc. - 3 Years
I trust this email finds you thriving. If you are open to new professional challenges and seeking a role where your skills can truly shine, I encourage you to consider this opportunity.
If you find this opportunity aligns with your career goals and interests, we kindly request that you send us your resume to [email protected] by 18 Nov. 2024 at your earliest convenience.
Requisition Class: TSV2: TS2
Job Title: REQ750358 - IA-DOM-IWD-TS2-Linux Engineer
Client: IWD: Iowa Workforce Development
Work Location: 1000 E GRAND AVE., IA, US, (Hybrid)
Estimated Start Date: 12/02/2024
Estimated End Date: 02/24/2025
Description:
The position requires someone that is detail oriented with a strong desire to provide exceptional service. The system administrator will be responsible for improving the stability and performance of various operating systems, maintaining and improving the security posture of the systems, continuous monitoring of system health, and troubleshooting issues that arise.
The Systems Administrator is accountable as the primary resource for the Linux environment and will serve as a backup to the Windows System administrators as well as the applications that support the enterprise infrastructure and business critical services. Responsibilities on these systems include the administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and performance of VMware systems, hosting hardware, Linux servers and Microsoft Windows servers.
This is a 3 month contract with a high likelihood to extend. Please limit submittals to candidates who are local, and who can work for any employer in the USA, making them eligible to be hired directly by the state if selected.
Responsibilities include:
• Engineering of Linux systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs.
• Fluent in various flavors of Linux: CentOS, RHEL and Oracle Enterprise Linux
• Install and configure Linux servers and application residing on Linux servers
• Develops and maintains appropriate system documentation to ensure that documentation is current.
• Contribute to and maintain system standards.
• Provide Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
• Virtual Center administration and troubleshooting
• Strong knowledge of Windows Server administration
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; including documentation
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure/add new services as necessary.
• Upgrade and configure system software that supports infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
• Provides backup to Sr. Windows Engineer and Storage and Virtualization Engineer as needed
Skill
• System administration experience in Linux environments and proficient in tasks such as analyzing log files, managing user accounts and groups - 5 Years
• Windows Systems Administration and Active Directory - 3 Years
• Strong knowledge of MS Windows 2008, 2012, 2016 servers - 3 Years
• Experience troubleshooting system level problems including server failure and OS tun-ing - 3 Years
• The ability to create and manage BASH scripting - 3 Years
• The ability to schedule and manage Cron Jobs - 3 Years
• Experience configuring and managing Apache Web servers including SSL Certificate configuration, reverse proxy and load balancing configuration - 3 Years
• Ability to effectively communicate (verbal & written correspondence) in a professional and courteous manner with technical and non-technical personnel - 3 Years
• Will be required to be accessible 24x7 in case of emergency - 3 Years
• Hands on VMware experience, including vSphere and administration of VMware clus-ters - 3 Years
• Experience with Samba, CIFS and NFS mounts - 3 Years
• Experience with Nagios monitoring software - 3 Years
• associates degree or tech school - 3 Years
• The ability to setup and configure systemd services - 3 Years
• Experience with VMware Horizon View Virtual Desktop - 3 Years
• Experience configuring and managing other application server and middleware tech-nologies such as JBoss, AS/Wildfly, IBM MQseries - 3 Years
• Configuring and managing Apache Tomcat is a plus - 3 Years
• SOLR experience is a plus - 3 Years
• Alfresco experience is a plus - 3 Years
• Experience with DBMS software including, but not limited to, Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server and MongoDB - 3 Years
• Strong knowledge of Active Directory and Terminal Services - 3 Years
• Strong knowledge of DNS, DHCP, LDAP, SMTP and TCP/IP networking - 3 Years
• Knowledge of SAN storage, VMFS, iSCSI, NFS, etc. - 3 Years
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