Linux System Administrator at Ouranos Technologies

Job Summary

• Unix Linux System Administrator specializes in overseeing and handling systems operating on Linux servers.
• Also responsible for evaluation, recommendation, design, implementation, and ongoing support of the computer infrastructure services and to ensure high availability, redundancy, recoverability, and capacity.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Installing and upgrading UNIX/Linux system software on company servers and computers
• Creating UNIX/Linux file systems
• Setting up and maintaining user accounts and access management systems
• Implementing network and computer system policies
• Detecting and troubleshooting software and hardware issues
• Ensure effective security, operation and peak performance of UNIX/Linux server and virtualization management environments.
• Provide high-availability operational support and automate solutions across the infrastructure.
• Participate in the design, planning, and implementation of new projects /technologies and ensuring that the solutions are highly available and performing.
• Work with the OS Administration and Engineering Section to develop document standards and procedures.
• Provide day-to-day Tier 3 level operational support including responding to incidents, troubleshooting, and executing corrective action.
• Assisting Tier 2 support with after action reports such as Root Cause Analysis.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or 6 years of equivalent work experience in IT related work.
• 3+ Years of Senior UNIX Engineer / Administrator experience supporting a medium to large user base
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x.7.x and 8.x.
• Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.x and 6.x.
• Oracle Linux 6.x,7.x,8.x
• Working knowledge of networking protocols and components including TCP/IP,DNS, NFS.
• Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g., VMware Vcenter, Hyper-V manager)
• Solid networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)
• Experience with automated system builds and configuration management tools including Red Hat Satellite 6, Foreman, and Puppet, and Ansible.
• Technically fluent in the design and use of multiple Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Managers in a distributed environment.
• Outstanding communications and organization skills.
• Ability and desire to work both independently and with a team.
• Must have hands-on experience performing tuning of clusters.
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (bash, Perl, Python, Ruby)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Certification