Senior Administrator

Position Title: Systems Administrator
Location:  Omaha Nebraska 68182 OR Lincoln, NE 68512
Duration: 06+ Months (Possible Conversion/Extension)

***Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC OR GC candidates***

Description:
Client is looking for a talented Systems Administrator to provide technical systems support, managing/troubleshooting, identifying, and upcoming technology needs like cloud migration etc. As Systems Engineer Senior, you will be part of a talented team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competencies, maintaining mission critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security. Qualified systems engineers will have a background in IT, computer systems engineering, or systems engineering and analysis.

What you'll do:

• Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure
• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems
• Provide L2 and L3 level support
• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
• Create Tufin requests
• Provide hands-on support for existing environments to include performance of the following related tasks: software installation, upgrades, query writing, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, and release deployments
• Automate and evolve deployment strategies and testing to support a quick turnaround of deployments
• Work closely with Engineering to ensure all relevant KPI's are implemented within the monitoring framework
• Participate in all Production Support activities during incidents and outages. Hands-on technical resource capable of resolving technical issues and making recommendations for application performance and capacity improvements
• Participate in capacity planning, tuning systems stability, provisioning, performance, and scaling of the application infrastructure
• The desire to resolve issues for a 24x7 environment in a non-impacting yet fast-paced resolve time
• Create and maintain technical support documentation

Experience you will need to have:

• 5+ years of IT experience in a technical application production support role or equivalent in a Linux or Windows environment
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotation
• 5+ years of experience with load balancers, routers, packet capture, capturing thread dump and analysis
• Strong knowledge and experience in certificates, TLS, SSL
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Proven working experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Windows and Linux based environments.
• Solid experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks (e.g.,IIS, Weblogic, Apache)
• Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g., VMware)
• Experience with monitoring systems like Dynatrace, Splunk, ExtraHop
• Experience with software deployment methods for applications, patches, and operating systems.
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python)
• Cloud knowledge and/or experience, preferably in AWS
• Must have experience with or familiarity with software and security architectures.

Experience that would be great to have:

• .NET programming experience
• Linux and Windows system administration – ability to manage and troubleshoot Linux systems and services, bash scripting
• Networking: understanding of routing and networking concepts
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Collaboration platforms such as JIRA, Confluence, Wiki, ServiceNow

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