Jr. Unix (Linux) System Engineer

Company Description

1 yr+ Contract

Pay Rate: $5,650/mo DOE

Provide upgrades and implement new System technology as necessary. Implement, maintain, support, develop and design servers within the organization. Prepare for disaster recovery. Ensure high availability and continually improve operational processes. May supervise computer administrators and/or user support specialists.

Job Description

• Maintain UNIX and Enterprise Fedora-based Linux Platforms (Red Hat, CentOS and Oracle Linux)
• Manage UNIX and Linux patching, upgrade, migration, virtualization
• Monitor, maintain, configure, troubleshoot and upgrade UNIX/Linux servers Production Development, QA, Test and Disaster Recovery system installation support.
• Monitoring Systems for performance, issues response and change support
• Asset tracking and updating for maintained systems
• 24/7/365 ready to support of supported systems related to responsible UNIX/Linux physical and virtual servers

Qualifications

• 2+ Years Experience as a Linux Systems Engineer or Professional.
• Hands-on experience with bare-metal physical servers required.
• Experience working in a 24/7 Data Center
• Experience as a UNIX Engineer is a plus
• Hands-on experience on Linux Distribution Platforms (RedHat, Oracle Linux, CentOS, Rocky, etc.)
• Experience with Red Hat Clustering (Pacemaker/Corosync) technologies a bonus.  OS Clustering on any UNIX/Linux OS is acceptable
• Storage configuration experience from UNIX/Linux OS
• Proven experience & ability on Linux opensource applications’ deployment
• General troubleshooting of Linux system log analysis
• Experience on Dell PowerEdge and Oracle x86 servers
• Experience on Oracle Exadata Appliance is a plus.
• Heavy hands-on Bash, script experience
• College Degree preferred or equivalent experience & certification

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.