Linux System Administrator

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Opportunity:

Virtual Service Operations is searching for highly motivated and career-driven individuals to join our growing team as a Linux System Administrator. In this role, you would be a part of our growing relationship with one of our great clients and performing administration and maintenance activities on over 8,000 Linux servers!

Responsibilities:

Cover night and/or weekend shift activities supporting all Linux servers, including:

• Monitoring availability and performance of all Linux servers using client-provided alerting systems and dashboard reports.
• Responding accordingly to alerts - troubleshooting, resolving, and documenting activities. Escalating and engaging product teams, engineers, and security operations resources as appropriate. Establish, follow, and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for these troubleshooting activities.
• Execute approved releases / changes scheduled during working shift. Follow documented processes in the change control record to support and/or perform application deployments, upgrades, and/or configuration changes that require administrative access. Document activities and results per change management requirements and procedures.
• Execute and validate security patching scheduled during working shift following SOPs.
• Communicate effectively through written shift reports and shift change meetings the planned and completed activities, pending actions, and issues encountered and/or resolved during the shift.

Preferred Qualifications:

• RHEL Certification
• Knowledge of Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) and/or VMware.
• Cisco UCS
• Ansible
• Foreman, Katello

• Must be willing to undergo a government Public Trust (SF-85) background investigation.
• 3 - 5 years of relevant experience
• Three years of experience supporting Linux servers, preferably both Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and derivatives such as Rocky – including administration, monitoring, patching, deployments, validation, and troubleshooting
• Must have experience supporting application development / operations teams through implementation and validation support. Gitlab experience is highly desirable.
• Must have experience with network administration, server patching, security configuration, and validation. 
• Experience with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins or other automation platforms highly desirable. Experience with Satellite, Foreman, Katello, or other management systems highly desirable.
• Fundamental understanding of networking and virtualization concepts. VCenter (VMware) experience.
• Familiarity with ITSM systems such as ServiceNow for problem, change, and incident management).
• Must be a team-player with self-initiative, a desire to learn, and excellent verbal and non-verbal skills.

What is Important to Us:

• You are an excellent communicator in writing and speaking.
• You have the ability to work independently but also value teamwork.
• Your problem-solving skills are excellent.
• You are looking for a job where performance appraisals occur regularly, and you look forward to advancing your career.
• You seek a community of virtue-centered co-workers and clients.

What we offer you: 

As part of the VSO company, you will be part of a virtue-centered team who value their work and teammates. This is a no-jerk zone. We provide ongoing learning and development opportunities to foster continuous growth. We offer competitive salaries, health benefits, and flexible work arrangements.

More About VSO: 

VSO is a hybrid cloud and managed services consulting firm. Much of VSO’s success can be attributed to our deep partnerships with IT services industry leaders such as AWS, IBM, Microsoft and others. VSO leverages numerous other partner relationships so as to provide our customers with optimal support. Additionally, we take pride in taking care of our employees. We offer a wide variety of benefits for eligible employees related to health, retirement, professional development, and more! For more information, please visit our website at https://vso-inc.com/careers