M429- Senior Linux System Administrator (801393)

Onsite work is expected 2-3 days per week in Raleigh, NC.

Our client has an opening for a Senior Linux System Administrator

This position is up to 12 months, with the option of an extension, and the client is in Raleigh, NC.

Please send rate and resume.

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

Hands-on 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, HTTP, 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 multi-platform 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 Required