Job Listing Information

Linux Administrator
  • 22-Jul-2021 to 05-Aug-2021 (UTC)
  • Des Moines, IA, USA
  • Full Time
  • Long Term Contract Length
  • 40 Weekly Hours

The selected candidate must be available to report in person as directed by the client to pick up equipment on the first day. Please confirm that your candidate is aware that he/she is expected to relocate to the Des Moines Metro or is capable of working onsite M-F for this position if selected?

Complete 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.

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

Required / Desired Skills
System administration experience in Linux environments and proficient in tasks such as analyzing log files, managing user accounts and groups - Required 5 Years
System administration experience in configuring iptables and setting up mail services. - Required 5 Years
Windows Systems Administration and Active Directory - Required 3 Years
Hands on VMware experience, including vSphere and administration of VMware clusters - Required 3 Years
Strong knowledge of MS Windows 2008, 2012, 2016 servers - Required 3 Years
Experience troubleshooting system level problems including server failure and OS tuning - Required 3 Years
Experience with Samba, CIFS and NFS mounts - Required 3 Years
The ability to create and manage BASH scripting - Required 3 Years
Experience with Nagios monitoring software - Required 3 Years
The ability to schedule and manage Cron Jobs - Required 3 Years
Experience configuring and managing Apache Web servers including SSL Certificate configuration, reverse proxy and load balancing configuration - Required 3 Years
Ability to effectively communicate (verbal & written correspondence) in a professional and courteous manner with technical and non-technical personnel - Required 3 Years
Will be required to be accessible 24x7 in case of emergency - Required 3 Years
Bachelor’s degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science, preferred - Desired 3 Years
The ability to setup and configure systemd services - Desired 3 Years
Experience with VMware Horizon View Virtual Desktop - Desired 3 Years
Experience configuring and managing other application server and middleware technologies such as JBoss, AS/Wildfly, IBM MQseries - Desired 3 Years
Develop and maintain Atlassian applications such as but not limited to: JIRA, Confluence and Bamboo - Desired 3 Years
Configuring and managing Apache Tomcat is a plus - Desired 3 Years
SOLR experience is a plus - Desired 3 Years
Alfresco experience is a plus - Desired 3 Years
Experience with DBMS software including, but not limited to, Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server and MongoDB - Desired 3 Years
Strong knowledge of Active Directory and Terminal Services - Desired 3 Years
Strong knowledge of DNS, DHCP, LDAP, SMTP and TCP/IP networking - Desired 3 Years
Knowledge of SAN storage, VMFS, iSCSI, NFS, etc.     - Desired 3 Years