Senior Linux Administrator

Dice
Kansas, MO Full Time
POSTED ON 7/25/2024 CLOSED ON 8/22/2024

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One of our direct clients (leading Railroad company in North America) is looking to hire a contract resource for the Senior Linux Administrator at Kansas City, MO.

Job Title: Senior Linux Administrator

Location: Kansas City, MO

Duration: 6 Months contract (contract further possible extension)

Role Description:

As a Senior Linux Administrator responsible for Linux operational support, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades and expansion, on-call rotation. In addition, they will provide support to provisioning/operational staff, as well as work closely with the architecture group in design support and validation of new designs and installations.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

  • Provide direction and advice pertaining to capacity planning.
  • Provide direction and advice pertaining to future installations and design.
  • Provide direction to automate and orchestrate future use of Linux environments (Tanium, Orchestrator, automation suites).
  • Configuration management utilizing Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Desired State Configuration (DSC).
  • Scripting languages (PowerShell, bash, python).
  • 10 years Infrastructure experience.
  • 1 to 3 years virtual infrastructure experience.

Knowledge in the following preferred: (NOT mandatory)

  • Virtualization Technologies using VMware/Nutanix/Hyper V (MS suite).
  • Provide direction and advice pertaining to design and configuration of converged infrastructure.
  • Cluster experience (SLES, RH would be good).
  • Storage Technologies using Dell/EMC and Netapp.
  • Networking technologies including, but not limited to TCP/IP, DNS, Routing Protocols, Switching.
  • Strong Communications Skills, both verbal and written.
  • Demonstrated experience documenting environments, runbooks, etc.
  • Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and automation technologies.
  • Infrastructure as Code platforms: Terraform, Packer, Azure Resource Manager/CloudFormation templates.
  • Enterprise service bus platforms.
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