Sr. Linux System Administrator

Description

Are you looking to take the next steps in your career as a Sr. Linux System Administrator? Let's chat and see if we are a good match!

Opportunity:

Virtual Service Operations is searching for a Sr. Linux System Administrator to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will perform administration and maintenance activities on over 8,000 Linux servers. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, not afraid to undertake and lead a project from beginning to end, and is accompanied with broad technical exposure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide escalation support from subordinates and junior resources, including on-call rotation support.
• Mentor and direct junior staff in the course of daily assignments and projects to promote a collaborative learning environment.
• Troubleshoot hardware, virtualization, Operating System, configuration (services, file systems, etc.) and software problems with Rocky Linux servers.  (RHEL, CentOS knowledge is also applicable).
• Ensure proper planning and execution of major projects and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) activities.
• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures for server builds, configurations, and scheduled maintenance activities.
• Provide suggestions and best practices for various activities and communicate them to stakeholders at various technical levels.
• Perform storage expansion, migration, and reclamations on block storage from SAN, familiarity with boot-from-SAN for Linux operating systems is preferred.
• Perform detailed analysis of incidents - utilize log management tools and performance data to author and submit Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reports following service outages.
• Perform cyber-security remediation and server hardening as tasked per established configuration baselines (i.e. client-specific DISA STIG implementations).
• Leverage Ansible and shell scripts to configure and monitor Linux hosts the environment.
• Work on assigned change requests, incidents and service catalog tickets.
• Investigate and respond to alerts generated by the various monitoring systems in use at Client.
• Perform hardware repair procedures and activities.
• Evaluate and implement potential new tools and technologies. 

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with Tomcat, Apache, JBoss, Oracle, and MySQL. 
• Experience with Cisco UCS.
• Experience with Ansible.
• Experience with Foreman / Katello.
• Experience with Puppet.
• Experience with VMWare.
• Experience with Windows Server.

Requirements

• 7 - 9 years of relevant experience.
• Must be located in the USA.
• Must be willing and able to undergo a government Public Trust (SF-85) background investigation.

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