What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Linux Administrator (VMware)(Python)(RHEL) :: Winston- Salem, North Carolina (Charlotte, NC) position at CEDENT?
Job Title: Sr. Linux Administrator
Start Date: Within a few weeks of accepting offer (ASAP)
Job Duration: 6-month contract to extend or convert
Remote Info (& Covid Policy for on-site): Consultant should be on-site 4 days per week and remote 1 day per week (preference is Winston-Salem, NC but they are open to Radnor, PA).
Project Details:
- Must be able to work in a team setting and help manage ~150 RHEL 7 OS installations that are installed on a mix of physical hardware, VMware VM’s, and Amazon EC2.
- Work with RedHat Satellite to maintain OS patching and security updates.
- They will also develop automation tasks using technologies such as Ansible w/Tower, Python, Terraform and Bash scripting.
- They will also perform CIS hardening and regular review of NESSUS security appliance compliance scan reports.
- We perform user management through a HelpSystems BoKS application.
- Candidate performs SFTP administration for incoming, outgoing, pickup of EDI files.
- Candidate will also be expected to participate in an on-call rotation.
- During this time the on-call person will monitor a team inbox for any requests / issues as well as respond to any Solarwinds/Everbridge alerts.
Must Have Skills:
1. 5 years of Linux Admin experience (Red Hat is strongly desired)
2. Scripting knowledge
- Shell (Bash, ksh)
- Python
- Ansible
- Splunk query language
3. VMware experience
Nice to Have Skills:
- SAN experience preferred.
- Firewall experience required.
- IPtables/NFtables
- BIND DNS Management experience preferred.
- Basic networking understanding
- Routing
- Vlan
- NIC bonding
- UCS Hardware knowledge preferred.
- UCS Blade hardware
- UCS Manager
- SNMP OS monitoring knowledge preferred.
- Ability to provide technical documentation.
Day to day responsibilities:
- Managing the infrastructure in the data center
- Scripting
- Troubleshooting problems, administering discs, creating virtual machines on VMware
- Closing tickets
- Working on operating systems/storage tasks
