Title Senior Linux System Administrator
Location Durham NC (Hybrid)
Rate DOE /If your experience and skills match call us immediately for submission
Duration 6 Months
Interview Type Either Webcam Interview or In Person
Job Type C2CW2
Experience 7 Years
Job Description The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) requires the assistance of Linux (RedHat) administrator(s) for the implementation and operational support of (NC FAST) Applications on AWS/Hybrid cloud.
The primary role is to install and configure the Linux operating system as well as manage and maintain Linuxbased systems on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. The position will be responsible for the deployment configuration and ongoing maintenance of AWS services such as EC2 S3 RDS and more. It will also be responsible for System maintenance by reviewing error logs system backups monitoring system performance to prevent slowdowns and disruptions License deployments and setup may include setting up a Linux Satellite server and deployment manager and providing any needed technical support. This position will provide handson technical support for system security monitoring and optimizing the performance of these systems as well as troubleshooting and resolving any issues that may arise. Additionally this resource may be responsible for managing and maintaining other related technologies such as DDI (DNS DHCP and IPAM). Strong knowledge of Linux administration AWS and networking are required for this role. This position is required to be on call for evenings and weekends to meet business needs. Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Strong experience with Linux administration experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHEL on AWS platform
Required 3 Years Strong Experience with monitoring and troubleshooting Linux systems and applications
Required 5 Years Handson experience in performance monitoring enablement to manage the Scaling up and down of the environments
Required 3 Years Experience with Linux OS Patch (including taking snapshots of instances before applying updates) and OS Level Vulnerability Management
Required 7 Years Strong experience with Cookie Security Web Browser Security Server side encryptions Data Encryption at Rest and Key management
Required 3 Years Strong experience with Image Management using Redhat Image
Required 3 Years Experience with cloud infrastructure specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS) like EC2 S3 RDS ELB SSM and EBS.
Required 3 Years Experience in installing configuring and maintaining services such as Bind Apache nginx MYsql etc
Required 5 Years Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible Cloudformation Puppet or Chef
Required 5 Years Strong scripting skills specifically in Bash or Python
Required 7 Years Strong understanding of networking concepts including VPCs subnets and routing
Required 3 Years Proficient with network tools such as iptables Linux IPVS HAProxy etc
Required 3 Years Experience in capturing interpreting and analyzing network traffic
Required 3 Years Solid knowledge of protocols such as DNS LDAP SMTP and SNMP
Required 2 Years Troubleshooting Apache issues like performance testing and tuning failure to restart and queuing of requests
Required 3 Years Experience in performing multiplatform volume management using SVM LVM ZFS NAS and the VERITAS volume manager
Required 5 Years Experience with security best practices and implementing security controls in a AWS cloud environment
Required 3 Years Familiarity with wired and wireless networking hardware and architectures Virtual LAN (VLAN) setup and configuration VPN Routing IPV4 IPV6
Required 1 Years Experience in user account management for large organization
Required 7 Years Linux certifications (RHCT RHCE and LPIC) will be considered an advantage
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