Job summary:


Title:
RHEL Administrator

Location:
Remote

Length and terms:
Long term - W2 or C2C


Position created on 11/23/2021 03:36 pm

Job description:


*** Webcam interview *** Long term contract  *** Remote project but customer wants the candidate to be local to Columbus OH or relocate due to occassional onsite meetings

Red Hat Linux

Required: Minimum 5 years experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v6,V7.x and v8 in a datacenter environment

Required areas of knowledge & experience:

  • Installation of RHEL7and 8 in a standalone and VMware environment
  • Stop, Start, restart, enable and disable running of software & system service daemons via systemd system and service manager
  • Installation, update and inventory of software packages via rpm command
  • Shell scripting experience, e.g. bash for routine system administration tasks, creating reports yum for patching and package installation from central repository
  • Cron/crontab for periodic scheduled jobs
  • Creation & management of filesystems and volumes using LVM, partitioning of disk devices
  • System performance analysis, system log analysis and system troubleshooting techniques
  • Logrotate for periodic rotation and compression or purge of older logs
  • Remediation of common Linux server issues such as filesystem nearly full, user cannot login, etc.
  • TCP/IP networking: Configuration, troubleshooting, use of tcpdump and Wireshark
  • Setup/configuration of network interfaces
  • Setup/configuration of typical networked services such as DNS, NTP, NFS, FTP, SFTP,SSH,Apache HTTPD,CIFS,SMB/Samba,syslog/rsyslog
  • Security hardening practices, including RHEL7s firewalld
  • SSH authentication techniques (password, key-based)
  • Use of sudo, sudoers file, and sudoers.d directory
  • Grub configuration & setup to control Linux boot and system parameters at boot time

Troubleshooting all of the above

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Preparation of documentation for technical staff and management (technical procedures, description and diagramming of operational & network flow, performance reports, etc.)
  • Create periodic reports to document your job activities

Knowledge/Experience a desired plus:

  • RHCSA (Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator - RHEL V7.x)
  • Red Hat Satellite V6.x used for administration of RHEL7 systems
  • Centrify Direct Control
  • HelpSystems GoAnywhere file transfer products/architecture
  • Familiarity with system tuning & setup requirements for Oracle RDBMS utilizing ASM disks
  • Familiarity with system tuning & setup requirements for Vertica database
  • MediaWiki for online documentation management
  • NMON/NMON Visualizer (collection & reporting of system performance information)
  • Postfix SMTP gateway
  • Microsoft Active Directory and LDAP (as a client of these services, not as an administrator under Windows)
  • Systems programming language (Python preferred, or Perl)
  • Management of SSL certificates for HTTPD/webserver
  • Microsoft SCOM agent on Linux
  • RHEL V6.x system administration
  • Simple HTML web page creation, also forms pages with back-end scripting language (Python, Perl) to accept/sanitize/parse submitted form data.

 

Required Skills:

  • Minimum 5 years experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v6,V7.x and v8 in a datacenter environment
  • Installation of RHEL7and 8 in a standalone and VMware environment

Nice to have Skills:

  • RHCSA (Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator - RHEL V7.x)

 


Contact the recruiter working on this position:



The recruiter working on this position is Abaka Kartik(Shaji Team)
His/her contact number is +(1) (571) 2812089
His/her contact email is karthik.abaka@msysinc.com

Our recruiters will be more than happy to help you to get this contract.