Ansible Automation & Red Hat Linux System Administrator

** Job Title :
Ansible Automation & Red Hat Linux System Administrator*
* ** Location :
Durham, NC (Hybrid)*
* ** Duration :
Long Term*
* *
* Note:

Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of Client Headquarters in Durham, NC. Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 2 days a week.*
* ** Position

Description:

** - Develop Ansible playbooks and modules.

- Work collaboratively with the cyber security engineering team to create and deploy Ansible solutions for a distributed data center infrastructure environment.

- Administer Ansible infrastructure, perform maintenance and configuration and provide SME level support.

- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test, and production environments.

- Update system and process documentation and user guides as needed diagrams and SOPs as needed.

- Responsible for designing database tables and structures.

- Crete views, stored procedures, and functions in SQL.

- Design and maintain the 24x7 Linux server infrastructures that support Client mission critical web-based applications.

- Maintain the Red Hat Linux Servers and secure the servers according to the Policy Compliance Management requirements.

- Manage and work in a Red Hat Linux operating system and services.

- Installation, configuration and tuning of Red Hat 6 (REHL
6) and RedHat7 (REHL
7) virtual servers - Configure and maintain Red Hat Satellite System Management Platform.

- Troubleshoot and Resolve Linux Operating System-based issues from Performance to Configuration.

- Backing up and Protecting Linux environments using platform-specific tools.

- Perform daily system checks, review and respond to events reflected in various management tools, perform server patch management.

- Notify Government representative of issues involving performance of the operating environment.

- Share technical best practices and serve as a point of contact for any major incidents, managing customer expectations and communications to a resolution of such incidents.

- Conduct system audit reviews and perform maintenance functions as required to ensure system health.

- Write and debug bash and korn shell scripts to assist in all manner of server management.

- Work with the team and application sponsors to resolve issues that arise in the daily administration of the Linux environment.

- Troubleshoot and resolve problems for all applications.

- Support, implement and maintain new applications coming into the environment.

- Present status information on issues and problems at the weekly team meetings.

- Document software changes.

- Document problem resolution steps.

- Assist in troubleshooting and problem resolution on Linux systems - performance, health, configuration.

- Assure best-practices and standards are implemented and adhered to for software systems.

- Perform daily system checks, review and respond to events reflected in various management and monitoring tools.

- Notify Government representatives of issues involving performance of the operating environment.

- Conduct system audit reviews and perform maintenance functions as required to ensure system health.

- Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences.

- Interface with the customer daily.

- Bachelor's degree and 6 years of relative experience, Master's degree and 4 years of relative experience, or 10 years of relative experience in an IT field in lieu of a degree - Minimum of 4 years experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Tower. (Experience with Ansible strongly preferred, however open to other Dev Ops (Chef, Salt, Puppet) tools experience) - Minimum of 2 years strong experience coding and scripting (Power Shell, Bash, Batch files, etc.)

- 4 years strong experience with RHEL 6, RHEL 7 System Administration - Strong knowledge of Source Code Control Systems (Git) - 4 years Red Hat Enterprise Linux v6.x/7.x Operating System experience (Installation and upgrade of the operating system) - 2 years Web Sphere, Cold Fusion and Apache Application Server platforms for both configuration and troubleshooting of hosted applications experience - 2 years of experience setting up and maintaining Red Hat Satellite System Management Platform - 2 years PERL and Python scripting - 1 year XML - 1 year of commonly used Linux tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bit Bucket - Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance