Linux System Administrator

Linux System Administrator

• 12 months contract role, with possible extension

Our Client

• A multi-national technology company

The Opportunity

Participates as a member of the business IT team providing Level 2 and 3 support to Linux-based servers and workstations in product development lab. Provide operational support activities in setup of robust, reliable and secure IT systems and network infrastructure in lab compute space including:

• Design, prepare and implement end-to-end infrastructure solutions, configuration management, support and change management, integration of components including enclosures, servers, network and storage
• Assisting with problem resolution and root cause analysis, performance and status monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting
• Business continuity and recovery plan
• Improvement and simplification of lab compute space infrastructure architecture
• Provide mentoring and guidance to junior business IT support engineers
• Applies in-depth or broad technical knowledge and expertise to provide solutions across one or more technology areas
• Follows defined organization policies and processes and implements process changes as needed to meet ongoing business IT objectives.

Your Background

• Minimum a Bachelor / Postgraduate degree in IT, Computer Sciences, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with at least five years in-depth knowledge and practical experience in enterprise system administration of Linux-based IT systems (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc)
• Strong scripting experience (Shell, Bash, Python, Ruby, etc.)
• Good working knowledge of DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Kerberos, SNMP, SMTP, SSH, HTTP/S, TLS
• Strong technical knowledge of networking such as L2/L3 switches, firewall, VLAN, TCP/IP, VPN
• Demonstrate technical leadership and general project management skills
• Knowledge of current IT industry trends and technologies
• Good team player; self-starter; pro-active
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to think out-of-the-box to apply technology to solve business IT problems
• Ability to work in a geographically dispersed, dynamic and changing environment

Desired Experience:

• RHCE, LPIC, VMware VCP, MCSE/MCSA, CCNA certifications
• DevOps/IaC tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet, Ansible
• MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, etc
• HPE Synergy/BL/DL class servers and iSCSI SAN technology
• Data engineering and visualization
• Cyber security knowledge
• Data Center management