Title: System Administrator 3(With Linux)
Location: Portland, OR (Remote)
Duration: 12-month Contract (with possible extensions up to 5 years)
Pay Range: $60.54 – $63.77 per hour
The role of the System Administrator is to provide operating system support in order to provide sustainable, stable and secure enterprise level servers including backup recovery, performance tuning, upgrades/patches, maintenance, troubleshooting, permissions and file sharing.
Position Responsibilities:
- Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.
- Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations.
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary.
- Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures to protect data, software, and hardware.
- Configure, monitor, and maintain email applications or virus protection software.
- Operate master consoles to monitor the performance of computer systems and networks, and to coordinate computer network access and use.
- Load computer tapes and disks, and install software and printer paper or forms.
- Design, configure, and test computer hardware, networking software and operating system software.
- Monitor network performance to determine whether adjustments need to be made, and to determine where changes will need to be made in the future.
- Confer with network users about how to solve existing system problems.
- Monitor and test Web site performance to verify Web sites operate correctly and without interruption.
- May assist in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software.
- Administer network security measures.
- Implement and integrate new system architecture into an existing environment
- Deploy highly available technologies such as replication, load balancing, geographic clustering
- Install and configure server hardware including operating system and additional software to configure for optimal use.
- Identify standard monitoring requirements and scripting or applying additional setting requirements.
- Troubleshoot hardware and system level problems.
- Interpret architecture and design configurations from vendors or other teams to enable clear implementation standards and guidelines.
- Document implementation guidelines and installation guidance.
Position Requirements:
Education & Corresponding Experience
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science or a closely related technical discipline is preferred.
- 10 years combination of education and/or work experience in computer/information technology or related field is required.
- 5 years of experience working in a large production environment is required.
Required Technical Skills & Experience
- Architecture, installation, and support of Red Hat or Oracle Linux operating systems.
- Maintenance and support of Exadata server systems.
- Interconnectivity with Windows servers for file, mail, and print sharing.
- Experience architecting and configuring Linux systems that utilize high availability RAID and SAN storage solutions.
- Automating administrative tasks and procedures using KSH, CSH or Perl scripts.
- Creation of virtual hosts and clients using products such as VMware EXSi and/or VMware EXSi administration experience.
- Administration and architecture of Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic and/or JBoss application servers.
- Security hardening and configuration management aligned with FISMA or DoD standards.
- Experience architecting and configuring Puppet infrastructure including unit test pipeline workflow.
- Experience configuring and reporting Puppet SCE security module (compliance admin).
- Experience with gitlab change control and infrastructure support.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Experience with architecting and/or developing ansible server build automation playbooks.
- Red Hat RHCE or RHCT certification, or other Linux/Unix certification, is preferred.
- CISSP or similar security training/certification is preferred.
Everest Consultants offers the following benefits for this position: medical, dental, & vision insurance, short-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, and a referral bonus program, paid sick/vacation/holidays, and a health and welfare fringe benefit.
Everest Consultants is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state, or federal civil rights laws. #IND
