Job Title: Linux Engineer
Location: Phoenix, AZ - Remote
Duration: 6 months (Contract to Hire)
 
Skills:
We are seeking an experienced Linux Administrator to join our Operations Team. The Linux Administrator needs to have a deep and broad knowledge of computer software, hardware, and networks and will be responsible for designing, organizing, modifying, and supporting our systems.
 
Essential Responsibilities:

• Linux systems implementation
• Full IT system lifecycle administration from installation to decommissioning of systems in both physical data center and cloud
• Perform end to end management of on-premise and cloud based Linux systems
• Responsible for ensuring uptime of critical business systems and infrastructure through monitoring and timely remediation of critical infrastructure issues
• Measurement, optimization, and tuning of system performance and ensuring that systems will run reliably and are highly available in a 24/7 production environment
• Proactively monitor the health and utilization of systems
• Install, harden and patch Linux operating systems
• Plan, coordinate, and execute installation of new releases and upgrades of hardware/software
• Develop automation with Ansible, bash, python, or related technologies
• Serve on a rotating 24/7 on-call support team
• Embrace Infrastructure-as-Code
• Support incident management resolution and root cause analysis
• Assist in defining and designing system specifications and procedures
• Ensures adherence to all regulatory compliance processes and requirements
• Support security audits, accreditation, and certification processes
• Partner with GRC teams to lead deployment of secure and compliant systems and services on-prem and in the cloud
• Partner with application teams to understand performance and capacity requirements of solutions and services
• Create procedure documentation and develop SOPs and run books
• Update existing documentation and identify and draft new documentation where appropriate
• Stay up to date on best practices involving Linux based systems and recommend changes to keep systems and infrastructure secure and robust

 
What would make us excited about you?

• Information Systems, Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree or equivalent experience
• Intimate and extensive knowledge of Linux Administration and Engineering
• 4+ years of hands-on IT systems or relevant experience in a commercial production environment
• 4+ years of experience in Linux Administration
• 4+ years of experience troubleshooting skills in a multi-user high availability environment.
• Working knowledge of RedHat Satellite
• Experience with Veritas Infoscale preferred.
• Experience with compliance and patch management tools like Tanium & Qualys
• Familiar with DevOps toolchain, i.e. BitBucket, JIRA, Jenkins Pipeline
• Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work alternative coverage schedules.
• Strong initiative and passionate about learning new technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• AWS configuration, deployment and support experience
• Exposure to distributed systems networking concepts & protocols
• Experience with monitoring tools
• Fundamental Understanding of Networking & Security

 
Key technologies: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Administration, Automation using Ansible, OS and Server Life cycle management
Nice to haves: Experience with patching technologies using Satellite, Tanium
  
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 60.00/hr.