Linux Systems Administrator - Georgia IT Inc.

Reston, VA

About the Job

Linux Systems Administrator
Location: Reston, VA
Position Type: Contract
Interview Process: Phone then onsite no Skype/webcam or phone-to-hire
Rate: Market( w2/ 1099 only)

Responsibilities Will Include

Provide capacity analysis and forecasting of components including space on disk and performance requirements
Perform application software installation, upgrades, and troubleshooting
Configuring the application and any supporting services required such as GSLB, load balancer, and any other dependencies.
Perform systems and network troubleshooting, and problem resolution activities with other support teams (e.g. network support, NOC, vendors)
Produce Root Cause Analysis findings that focus on recommendations to learn from and avoid problem recurrence
Proactively identify and automate repetitive tasks
Build and analyze metrics data to conduct performance analysis, capacity planning, and reliability testing
Write, Maintain, Deploy complex host configuration and alerting scripts
Tuning an application for best performance or providing recommendation for related code changes.
Deploys the release of new technologies as well as designs, installs, configures, maintains and performs system integration testing of PC/server operating systems, related utilities and hardware.
Responsible for troubleshooting server problems as reported by users.
Researches, evaluates and recommends software and hardware products.
Supports Web access and electronic messaging services and maintains a secure systems environment. Provides new hardware specifications to users based on application needs and anticipated growth, Installs new servers and maintains the server infrastructure.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Required Skills/Experience

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field. Or equivalent work experience.
Typically has at least 5 years of IT work experience.
Expertise in configuring/managing Linux Systems, such as RHEL
Proven experience scripting to automate tasks using a common scripting language
Monitoring experience - monitoring
- Use of monitoring tools such a Nagios
- Monitoring methodologies such as SNMP, JMX, Log searches
Expert in troubleshooting network, server, and application issues
Experience in setting up and maintaining connections to storage components.
Experience in installing, configuring, tuning and maintaining Java and other web technologies.
Application tuning heap configuration etc.
Performance tuning
Deployment experience (large environment preferred)
Proven experience in a demanding environment
Experience in large compute environments.
Requires a high level of expertise in multiple system environments.

Experience with Any of the Following is a Plus

VMware and Cloud experience
Understanding of email terminology and related technologies
Knowledgeable with storage infrastructure such as Client and 3P
Email domain experience (supporting mailboxes, etc.)
Data Center automation such as Puppet

Source : Georgia IT Inc.