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.