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.
• Experienced with Kubernetes is 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.