Verbal and written communication skills are necessary to convey information that may be complex to others. Additionally, being productive in a team environment and helping contribute to a positive team effort is required. Planning and prioritization must occur to complete tasks effectively.
Position requires on-call support and after-hours work.
Essential Technical Qualifications:
- Linux (RedHat 6/7/8, CentOS) required; additional Unix (Solaris/AIX) nice to have
- General Unix/Linux administration such as building and configuring VMs, software package installation, account maintenance, file permissions, system tuning
- Other Linux skills Shell scripting, LVM, TCP/UDP, SNMP, DNS, NFS, ssh, sudo, syslog
- Performance troubleshooting, managing system services, system hardening
- Break/Fix
- Release management and patching
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking in the OSI model in LAN/WAN environments
- Detail oriented and self-motivated with good time management, communication, and presentation skills across varying organization levels
- Customer-facing experience when handling incident response.
- Solid experience working in VMware environments
- Other cloud administration (AWS, Azure, Google) experience nice to have
Education
- Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Linux systems administrator or equivalent education or training
- Degree resulting in an Associate s or Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience and relevant professional certifications.
- Familiar with ITIL and ticketing systems
- Experience with enterprise systems for monitoring
- Any relevant certifications: RHCSA, RHCE, CCENT, VMware VCP, AWS, Azure