Senior System Administrator

Company: Omtech
Location: Cedar Rapids
Posted on: August 6, 2022

Job Description:

Position Title: Systems Administrator Location: Cedar Rapids-Hybrid Duration: 40 Weeks Primary responsibilities: ---Develop automation scripts for consistency and supportability across multiple environments Using Scripting and/or programming languages (Java, PERL, Bash, Python) for automation ---Plan, install and configure Linux systems ---Maintain Linux server operating systems. ---Building and deploying Linux instances in both public (e.g. Amazon EC2) and private cloud environments (e.g. KVM). ---Establish and maintain security and integrity controls, and experience hardening Linux security. ---Plan and execute timely Linux system upgrades and supported software patches. ---Integrate cloud and on-premises servers into a connected Dev, QA and Prod environments ---Implementing a Load balancing, backup, and shared storage strategies.RequirementsBasic Qualifications:---5 years of experience directly related to Linux System Administration, including installation and maintenance of software and hardware---Associates in Technical Area---Experience in setting up, operating, tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting RDBMS (MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL)---Experience in setting up, operating, tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting Linux environment.---Experience configuring and deploying network and web services including DNS, DHCP, SMTP, Syslog, and HTTPS.Preferred Qualifications:---Advanced knowledge in the following key areas: Enterprise automation and configuration management (Puppet, Ansible), Hardware Architecture (performance testing, monitoring, operations), Hardware Benchmarking (program management, network management), Design (compliance, security), Network Engineering (planning, provision)---Proficient in multiple infrastructure technologies---Ability to articulate to more experienced management a technical strategy in clear, concise, understandable terms---Experience with virtualization technologies including hypervisors, virtual machines, virtual desktops, and virtual networking technologies.---Proven track record in the delivery of technology service, automation, and platform strategy, advancing the business and technology products, roadmaps and disciplines---Significant contribution to development and implementation of technology, strategy, and policy to drive business value enabled by expert knowledge of enterprise technology architecture principles and software development practices and tools.---Understanding of infrastructure at scale, configuration management, enterprise computing security, secure enterprise software development lifecycle, product-based organization and are comfortable working in an agile framework.---Experience with TCP/IP, network security, IP Sec or VPN.---Maintain and monitor server and network environment with Nagios.---Provide support for new applications and upgrades to existing systems---Design solutions to technical problems and implementation of new systems or infrastructure changes---Prepare for disaster recovery and ensure that appropriate backups are completed and tested---Troubleshoot software and hardware failures and identify network problems---Experience with Linux and Active Directory---Demonstrated knowledge in managing systems via an automated configuration management system such as Docker and Git repository.

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