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Senior Linux Server Administrator/Engineer

CareerAddict Chicago, IL

Senior Linux Sever Administrator/Engineer

Salary: $140k-$150k 15% bonus

Location: Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX

Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

*We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role*

*This role is not open for C2C, contract or contract to hire*

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related
  • 6 years of experience in Linux systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance of physical and virtualized Servers
  • 2 years of experience in DevOps and using CICD pipeline software to deploy code
  • Experience using configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible and container tools such as Docker
  • Experience with Kubernetes required
  • Ability to write and maintain automation code and scripts and IaaS/Infrastructure as code, such as Terraform
  • System administration experience and knowledge of VMware and administration of virtual Servers
  • Experience with cloud components and services in AWS
  • In depth system administration knowledge and skills for RedHat Linux. Knowledge of Amazon Linux is a plus.
  • Experience with using GitHub or other version control tools for source code management
  • Grub, PXE boot, Kickstart
  • Yum, rpms, Satellite server
  • SVM, LVM, Boot from SAN, UFS/ZFS, filesystem configuration
  • General working knowledge of NAS, SAN, and networking
  • Experience with GitHub, Ansible, Jenkins and Terraform tools/applications

Responsibilities

  • Provide advanced system administration, operational support and problem resolution for a large complex Linux computing environment, including both virtualized and physical Servers.
  • Create and Patch AMIs, perform pull requests, write Automation code using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.
  • Perform Linux administration including changes, deletes, disk space management, application installation and support.
  • Use your infrastructure and networking knowledge to maintain cloud-based infrastructure (predominantly on AWS) involving EC2, S3, RDS & VPC.
  • Use configuration management tools (Ansible and Terraform) to build and maintain a hybrid infrastructure hosted both at colocation facilities and in the public cloud.
  • Support VMware environment including changes, adding/removing systems, and disk space management.
  • Seniority level

    Not Applicable
  • Employment type

    Full-time
  • Job function

    Information Technology
  • Industries

    IT Services and IT Consulting

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