Lead Linux Administrator

Lead Linux Administrator

Salem, OR, 97301

Hybrid

Tax Term: C2C, W2 and 1099.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties:

• Responsible for maintaining existing corporate IT resources on various platforms.
• Lead the team and mentor/coach them to perform to the best of their abilities.
• Provide technical leadership in implementing best practices and driving standards with the team.
• Engage in detailed planning, change control and thorough testing to ensure performance, availability, and stability.
• Implement changes utilizing a defined change management process.
• Experience working with enterprise platforms such as Red Hat, CentOS, Rocky, Oracle Enterprise Linux operating systems.
• Setup and configure enterprise class server hardware from box to rack.
• Design and coordinate the installation of systems in a business-critical environment.
• Maintain and troubleshoot high availability systems in multiple Data Center locations.
• Develop and write systems and applications documentation.
• Support hardware decisions for upgrade requirements based on emerging software requirements in the best interest of the business.
• Determine system problems and coordinate hardware and/or software solutions.
• Implement security procedures and tools to ensure security measures are in place
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
  
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Ability to solve complex problems and troubleshooting issues.
• Highly self-motivated and able to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills including listening, speaking, and writing with the ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other associates.
• Excellent decision-making, problem-solving, and collaboration skills
• Strong organization skills, with emphasis on detail and follow-up
• Ability to lead and work in projects autonomously.
• Capability of effective planning and priority setting
• Proven record of dealing with challenges and meeting conflicting demands
• Ability to work well under pressure in production support situations with limited supervision.
  
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED
• Minimum two years of experience as a level 2 or above position in an enterprise environment to mentor and lead junior Linux Admins.
• Performed in a senior or lead technical role.
• Passionate about learning new technology.
• Ability and willingness to work after-hours on occasion (nights, evenings, weekends, on-call rotation, etc.)
• Minimum of 8+ years' experience Linux administration experience supporting enterprise environments including.
• Solid understanding of the Linux OS (RHEL 7+/CentOS 7+/Ubuntu 18.04+/OEL 8+/Rocky 8+) and its components (kernel, system, libraries, job scheduling, and package management).
• Intermediate BASH or Python scripting skills, including understanding, modifying, and creating scripts.
• Solid understanding of fundamental network protocols such as routing, TCP/IP, DNS, SNMP, SSL/TLS, and HTTP.
• Solid understanding of LVM, filesystem types, and partitioning. o Extensive understanding of Intel Servers (HP, Lenovo/IBM, SuperMicro, or Dell) including remote access, troubleshooting, booting, firmware, and configuration.
• Extensive experience with OS patching and patching tools (RPM, YUM, repos).
• Hands-on experience with management tools such as SaltStack, Ansible, etc.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering or equivalent.
• Experience with managing 1000+ servers.
• One or more advanced certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, AWS Cloud Practitioner) combination of experience and education.
• Understanding of security best practices such as CIS, SELinux, Firewalls, PAM, etc.
• Experience with PXE booting Linux-based OS installs (ex. kickstart, Cobbler, FAI, etc.)
• Multi-generation Dell hardware experience (12th-15th).
• Understanding of version controls systems (Git, GitLab, etc.)
• Professional experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, PCF/Tanzu, etc.
• Experience with VMware vCenter and general understanding of virtualization.
• Professional experience with public clouds (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)
• Experience with modern tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience participating in IT compliance audits (PCI, SOX, FedRAMP, etc.)
• Hands on experience with SAN storage (Fibre Channel, Multipath, PowerPath, etc.)
• Familiarity with MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL

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