Linux Engineer

Job Title: Linux Engineer

Location: Dallas TX (Hybrid role need to come to office when required locals preferred)

Duration: 12 Months with potential for extension

Employment Type: Contract

Pay Rate $75/Hr C2C

Client: McKesson

Can submit third party C2C candidates.

Quick summary:

We are looking for a Linux engineer who is passionate about Unix/Linux systems and has a strong desire to learn and grow in this field.

You will be part of a team that manages and supports a variety of Unix/Linux servers and applications both onpremises and in the cloud.

One of the main applications will be Alation so experience in the BI/Data space is preferred.

You will also be responsible for providing oncall support as needed and performing system maintenance tasks during nonbusiness hours.

Must have skills:

Experience with Unix storage structure (disk volume groups logical volumes filesystems)

Experience with Unix run levels (startup and shutdown)

Shell (Korn shell Cshell BASH)

Python

Ansible (Infrastructure as code mentality)

Unix command line interface

Shell script operations and capabilities

Knowledge of Unix permissions ownership groups etc

Knowledge of network configuration for Unix system (IP address subnets routing gateways etc.)

Knowledge of crontab and how to use it

Experience with any Linux distro prefer RHEL

Comfortable in a command line