Linux System Engineer

Must be located near the Kansas City metro area to be considered.
Location: Kansas City, MO (100% Onsite)
Duration: 6 months (Contract to Hire)
Description:
Job Description: As a Linux Engineer 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)
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
10 to 15 years Infrastructure experience
1 to 3 years virtual infrastructure experience
Knowledge in the following preferred:
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)
Vcenter or Nutanix tools
Storage Technologies using Dell/EMC and Netapp
Dell/EMC and Netapp replication technologies
Protocols including CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC
Cisco Networking Products
Networking technologies including, but not limited to TCP/IP, DNS, Routing Protocols, Switching
Cisco UCS Servers
VMWare Hypervisor as well as some UCS bare-metal)
Knowledge and use of containerization platforms
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
Skills:
Windows, active directory, pki infrastructure, group policy, sso

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

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