IT Administrator

EchoStar has an exciting opportunity for Linux/UNIX Engineer. This position can be located in Germantown, MD or Denver, CO. We are looking for a collaborator to work within the Corporate IT team supporting Linux servers in a predominately virtual environment.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and adhere to standards and procedures and provide day-to-day operational support of development, test, and production server and storage environments
• Responsible for project commitments, development of overall project specifications and schedules
• Provide customer service by assessing performance problems and resolving issues in the areas of performance tuning, availability, integrity, recoverability and documentation
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Provide support for security, network and operational issues
• Use the ticketing system to schedule and maintain workflow on approved requests
• Patching and upgrading of server operating systems
• Provide monthly reports to Internal Audit and respond to ad-hoc requests
• Manage user account provisioning and timely termination

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, information systems , related field or combination of education and experience
• 10+ years’ experience installing, configuring, and supporting Linux operating systems; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, 8.x and 9.x .
• Hands-on experience administering virtual servers in VMware environments including vCenter and ESXi.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Red Hat (RHCSA, RHCE)
• Cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure certification)
• Use of Ansible to query, report on, and manage large numbers of servers
• Strong Linux skills and knowledge of protocols including LDAP, SFTP, CUPS, NFS, TCP/IP networks
• Experience in scripting in ksh, bash, Perl, Python, PowerShell, etc.
• Experience in problem resolution and root cause analysis along with recommending and implementing preventive techniques.
• Knowledge of Commvault backup and recovery
• Critical thinking/debugging skills from application to network layer
• Ability to multitask/context switch in a fast-paced environment
• Familiarity with both on-premise and cloud-based (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services) server virtualization.
• Knowledge of OpenShift a plus

Will be eligible for discretionary bonus, with funding based on company performance.

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