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.
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