Linux Engineer Contract jobs, Must be local to Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA(Onsite)


Title: Linux Engineer

Location:.  Onsite – Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA (only local or within a 50-mile radius/mandatory)

Duration: Long Term Contract.

Visa Restrictions: No H1b/CPT.

Job Description:

Responsibilities include:

  • Engineering of Linux systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs.
  • Fluent in various flavors of Linux: CentOS, RHEL and Oracle Enterprise Linux
  • Install and configure Linux servers and application residing on Linux servers
  • Develops and maintains appropriate system documentation to ensure that documentation is current.
  • Contribute to and maintain system standards.
  • Provide Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
  • Virtual Center administration and troubleshooting
  • Strong knowledge of Windows Server administration
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills; including documentation
  • Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure/add new services as necessary.
  • Upgrade and configure system software that supports infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs.
  • Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.

Skills & Experience:

  • System administration experience in Linux environments and proficient in tasks such as analyzing log files, managing user accounts and groups.
  • Windows Systems Administration and Active Directory.
  • Strong knowledge of MS Windows 2008, 2012, 2016 servers.
  • Experience troubleshooting system level problems including server failure and OS tuning.
  • The ability to create and manage BASH scripting.
  • The ability to schedule and manage Cron Jobs.
  • Experience configuring and managing Apache Web servers including SSL Certificate configuration, reverse proxy and load balancing configuration.
  • Ability to effectively communicate (verbal & written correspondence) in a professional and courteous manner with technical and non-technical personnel.
  • Will be required to be accessible 24×7 in case of emergency.
  • Hands on VMware experience, including vSphere and administration of VMware clusters.
  • Experience with Samba, CIFS and NFS mounts.
  • Experience with Nagios monitoring software.
  • Associates degree or tech school.
  • The ability to setup and configure system and services.
  • Experience with VMware Horizon View Virtual Desktop.
  • Experience configuring and managing other application server and middleware technologies such as JBoss, AS/Wildfly, IBM MQseries.
  • Configuring and managing Apache Tomcat is a plus.
  • SOLR experience is a plus.
  • Alfresco experience is a plus.
  • Experience with DBMS software including, but not limited to, Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server and MongoDB.
  • Strong knowledge of Active Directory and Terminal Services.
  • Strong knowledge of DNS, DHCP, LDAP, SMTP and TCP/IP networking.
  • Knowledge of SAN storage, VMFS, iSCSI, NFS, etc.

Thanks and Regards

Sarfaraz Khan

US IT Recruiter | Convex Tech In

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