100 Remote Ansible Automation Red Hat Linux System Administrator Local to North Carolina

Title: Ansible Automation & Red Hat Linux System Administrator (Durham NC)

Position Type: Contract

Location: Remote but should be Local to Client LocationDurham NC United States

Note: They are not expected to actually come into the office but they want the people to be in the region so that in the event they have to because of some troubleshooting issue or team meeting they wanted to avoid having to coordinate huge amounts of travel.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Job title: Ansible Automation & Red Hat Linux System Administrator

DESCRIPTION OF WORK

The qualified candidate should also have strong analytical problem solving and communication skills with a keen attention to detail.

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 SSA mission critical webbased 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 RedHat 6 (REHL 6) and RedHat7 (REHL 7) virtual servers

Configure and maintain Red Hat Satellite System Management Platform.

Troubleshoot and Resolve Linux Operating Systembased issues from Performance to Configuration.

Backing up and Protecting Linux environments using platformspecific 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 bestpractices 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 nontechnical audiences.

Interface with the customer daily.

Basic Qualifications: Must Meet All

Minimum knowledge skills abilities needed.

Bachelors degree and 6 years of relative experience Masters 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 DevOps (Chef Salt Puppet) tools experience)

Minimum of 2 years strong experience coding and scripting (PowerShell 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 RedHat Enterprise Linux v6.x/7.x Operating System experience (Installation and upgrade of the operating system)

2 years WebSphere ColdFusion 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 BitBucket

Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

Candidates with these skills will be given preferential consideration.

Experience with version control (CVS Subversion Git etc.)

Strong background in VMWare administration