Our client is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer III with a solid understanding of Linux-based operating systems to join their IT Department.
Responsibilities:

• Administering a complex site alone or assisting in the administration of a larger site.
• Initiating new responsibilities and helping to develop plans for the future of the site/network.
• Evaluating and/or recommending critical IT purchases; ability to appropriately recommend and influence the purchasing process.
• Managing junior level system engineers.
• Performing weekend on-call functions.
• Performing additional IT related tasks, as assigned by management.

Required Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Capable of writing purchase justifications
• Training users in complex topics
• Making presentations to an internal audience.
• Interacting positively with upper management.
• The ability to work independently along with complex problem-solving ability.
• Strong documentation skills.
• Should be comfortable with most aspects of operating system administration; for example, configuration of mail systems, system installation and configuration, printer systems, fundamentals of security, installing third-party software.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with parallel filesystems (GPFS, Gluster, Ceph).
• Experience installing, configuring, and managing TSM server.
• Experience with SAN storage and FC switches.
• Significant programming background in any applicable language
• Experience managing and troubleshooting CentOS/RHEL and other distributions.
• Managing applications on those systems including Apache/Nginx, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Kubernetes/Docker.
• Patching and securing Linux systems.
• Configuration management preferably with Ansible. Experience with GPFS a plus.

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