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Ansible Automation & Red Hat Linux System Administrator - Durham

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About the Position:

Our Federal Client is seeking an enterprise-level engineer Ansible Automation and Red Hat Linux System Administrator to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Durham, NC.

The qualified applicant will become part of the Client's operating unit, which focuses on Healthcare IT solutions for our Federal, State, and Local government clients. The qualified candidate should also have strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills with a keen attention to detail.

  • Develop Ansible playbooks and modules.
  • Work collaboratively with the cyber security engineering team to create and deploy Ansible solutions for a distributed datacenter infrastructure environment.
  • Administer Ansible infrastructure, perform maintenance and configuration and provide SME level support.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test, and production environments.
  • Update system and process documentation and user guides as needed diagrams and SOPs as needed.
  • Responsible for designing database tables and structures.
  • Crete views, stored procedures, and functions in SQL.
  • Design and maintain the 24x7 Linux server infrastructures that support Client's mission critical web-based applications.
  • Maintain the Red Hat Linux Servers and secure the servers according to the Policy Compliance Management requirements.
  • Manage and work in a Red Hat Linux operating system and services.
  • Installation, configuration and tuning of RedHat 6 (REHL 6) and RedHat7 (REHL 7) virtual servers
  • Configure and maintain Red Hat Satellite System Management Platform.
  • Troubleshoot and Resolve Linux Operating System-based issues from Performance to Configuration.
  • Backing up and Protecting Linux environments using platform-specific tools.
  • Perform daily system checks, review and respond to events reflected in various management tools, perform server patch
  • management.
  • Notify Government representative of issues involving performance of the operating environment.
  • Share technical best practices and serve as a point of contact for any major incidents, managing customer expectations and
  • communications to a resolution of such incidents.
  • Conduct system audit reviews and perform maintenance functions as required to ensure system health.
  • Write and debug bash and korn shell scripts to assist in all manner of server management.
  • Work with the team and application sponsors to resolve issues that arise in the daily administration of the Linux environment.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve problems for all applications.
  • Support, implement and maintain new applications coming into the environment.
  • Present status information on issues and problems at the weekly team meetings.
  • Document software changes.
  • Document problem resolution steps.
  • Assist in troubleshooting and problem resolution on Linux systems ? performance, health, configuration.
  • Assure best-practices and standards are implemented and adhered to for software systems.
  • Perform daily system checks, review and respond to events reflected in various management and monitoring tools.
  • Notify Government representatives of issues involving performance of the operating environment.
  • Conduct system audit reviews and perform maintenance functions as required to ensure system health.
  • Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences.
  • Interface with the customer daily.


Requirements

Basic Qualifications:
Minimum knowledge, skills, abilities needed.
  • Bachelor?s degree and 6 years of relative experience, Master's degree and 4 years of relative experience, or 10 years of relative experience in an IT field in lieu of a degree
  • Minimum of 4 years experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Tower. (Experience with Ansible strongly preferred, however open to other DevOps (Chef, Salt, Puppet) tools experience)
  • Minimum of 2 years strong experience coding and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Batch files, etc.)
  • 4 years strong experience with RHEL 6, RHEL 7 System Administration
  • Strong knowledge of Source Code Control Systems (Git)
  • 4 years RedHat Enterprise Linux v6.x/7.x Operating System experience (Installation and upgrade of the operating system)
  • 2 years WebSphere, ColdFusion and Apache Application Server platforms for both configuration and troubleshooting of hosted applications experience
  • 2 years of experience setting up and maintaining Red Hat Satellite System Management Platform
  • 2 years PERL and Python scripting
    1 year XML
  • 1 year of commonly used Linux tools such as JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket
    Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:
Candidates with these skills will be given preferential consideration.
  • Experience with version control (CVS, Subversion, Git, etc.)
  • Strong background in VMWare administration
  • Knowledge of VMWare Integrated Openstack or Openstack
  • Demonstrate knowledge in Red Hat Cloud Computing discipline such as RedHat CloudForms, OpenShift, Docker, or other IaaS or PaaS solutions via training or seminars
  • Strong understanding of and compliance with IT development process (SDLC)
  • Strong requirements planning and project implementation skills and be able to work with internal technical staff and outside contractors to deliver results
  • Web-based and E-Commerce development or in-depth support experience a plus
  • JavaScript, CSS, XML, and HTML 5 experience a plus

Certification in one or more of the following:
o Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
o Red Hat JBoss Administration (RHCJA)


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