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Senior Linux Specialist

4 months ago

Houston, United States Merge IT Full time

Our enterprise-level client is looking to add a Senior Linux Specialist to work onsite in Houston, TX. Please see below for full details:


Job Notes:

-1 year contract / extensions and perm conversion possible with good performance

-ASAP start date

-Onsite in Houston, TX

-Drug & Background required.

Responsibilities include:

  • Support the operation and maintenance of Linux servers, ensuring operational availability & performance, conducting health checks, managing software upgrades, patching (including testing and implementation), system optimization and administration.
  • Monitor server health and performance to identify issues, bugs, or potential improvements
  • Strict adherence to change management processes to ensure changes are properly planned, documented, and deployed
  • Develop, review, and update existing operational documentation (SOPs, application checklists, playbooks, etc)
  • Provide after-hours technical support
  • Collaborate with the Security Operations Center (SOC) team for process optimization, tool tuning & integration, information sharing, playbook development and incident response
  • Implement automated near real-time monitoring of all tools to ensure proper operation and collection of pertinent data
  • Incident and Problem Management; including both during and post-incident, along with Root Cause Analysis
  • Application support, issue management and escalation
  • Perform incident investigation, diagnosis, and resolution
  • Perform system monitoring and remediation


Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of experience installing, administering, and maintaining Oracle or Red Hat Linux based servers
  • 5+ years of experience designing and implementing redundant systems including data backups/recoveries, high availability, load balancing, and disaster recovery
  • 5+ years of experience designing, analyzing, and repairing large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience with deploying and maintaining AWS and on-premises Linux servers
  • Experience in application deployment automation, modern DevOps practices, and infrastructure as code
  • Experience with IT automation tools such as Ansible Automation Platform, Chef, Puppet, or Terraform
  • Knowledgeable of core IT infrastructure technologies including virtualization, networking, and storage management
  • Technical documentation skills
  • Comfortable interacting with management at various levels in a professional manner
  • Takes ownership of areas of responsibility and makes recommendations and decisions on the improvement and operation of those areas
  • High level of organizational skills
  • Knowledge of and experience with Security Design and Implementation
  • Ability to participate in after-hours technical support
  • Knowledge of backup and recovery methods and verification
  • Knowledge of EMC PowerMax and Isilon storage, including snapshots
  • Excellent written and verbal communications
  • Ability to work in a fast paced, schedule-driven, and customer-oriented environment
  • Experience with Bash, Perl, and Python scripting
  • Experience with LVM including online expansion of file systems


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience supporting container-based platforms
  • SUSE Manager for patching Linux servers
  • Red Hat Satellite for patching Linux servers
  • Prometheus and Grafana for system performance monitoring


Why Choose Merge IT?

We have a team of talented and ambitious professionals that drive growth by identifying and delivering top quality IT talent for our Fortune 100, enterprise-level clients (aka ‘Big Name’ - think big banks, big pharma, etc.).


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