Senior Linux System Administrator

A Public Sector client of ours is looking for a Senior Linux System Administrator to work on their ongoing project in the Durham, NC office.

Below are the additional details of this role: Required

Skills

We need a minimum of 7+ years of hands-on

experience in the following.Strong

experience with Linux administration

experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHEL on AWS platformStrong

Experience with monitoring and troubleshooting Linux systems and applicationsHands-on

experience in performance monitoring enablement to manage the Scaling up and down of the environments

Experience with Linux OS Patch (including taking snapshots of instances before applying updates) and OS Level Vulnerability ManagementStrong

experience with Cookie Security, Web Browser Security, Server-side encryptions, Data Encryption at Rest and Key managementStrong

experience with Image Management using Redhat Image

Experience with cloud infrastructure, specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS) like EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, SSM and EBS.

Experience in installing, configuring, and maintaining services such as Bind, Apache, nginx, MySQL etc

Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, CloudFormation, Puppet, or ChefStrong scripting

skills, specifically in Bash or PythonStrong understanding of networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, and routingProficient with network tools such as iptables, Linux IPVS, HAP Roxy, etc

Experience in capturing, interpreting, and analysing network trafficSolid knowledge of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP and SNMPTroubleshooting Apache issues like performance testing and tuning, failure to restart, and queuing of requests

Experience in performing multi-platform volume management using SVM, LVM, ZFS, NAS, and the VERITAS volume manager

Experience with security best practices and implementing security controls in a AWS cloud environmentFamiliarity with wired and wireless networking hardware and architectures, Virtual LAN (VLAN) setup and configuration, VPN, Routing, IPV4, IPV6

Experience in user account management for large organizationLinux certifications (RHCT, RHCE and LPIC) will be considered an advantage

This role can be W2 or 1099/C2C and is open for anyone with valid work authorization in the US. H1B transfer candidates are more than welcome to apply for this role.