Red Hat Linux Administrator

Position: Red Hat Linux Administrator

C2C rate: $80/hr

Client: Administrative office of the Courts (AOC)

Location: 189 Harry S Truman Parkway Annapolis MD 21401 (three days onsite two days remote)

Duration: Five years

Interview mode: In person at 187 Harry S Truman Parkway Annapolis MD 21401.

DK Consulting Overview: Founded in May 2003 DK Consulting LLC a womanowned small business was formed to provide management and technology solutions based on industry best practices. DK Consulting LLC works with multiple State Federal and Commercial customers and our services range from providing customers with that one critical resource to assuming responsibility for an entire IT project. We offer excellent benefits and provide exceptional employee management.

The AOC is seeking one Red Hat Linux Administrator. The Red Hat Linux Administrator will manage and optimize AOCs Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments. The resource will be responsible for ensuring system stability security and performance while supporting a range of enterprise applications. This role requires advanced expertise in Linux administration automation troubleshooting and security best practices

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Installing configuring and maintaining Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers across development testing and production environments.
• Performing system upgrades patch management and security hardening to ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Monitoring system performance and troubleshooting issues to minimize downtime and optimize efficiency.
• Implementing automation scripts using Ansible Bash or Python to streamline system administration tasks.
• Configuring and maintaining Red Hat Satellite Identity Management (IdM) and other Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) ecosystem tools.
• Collaborating with security teams to ensure systems are protected against vulnerabilities and comply with security policies.
• Maintaining and optimizing storage backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Supporting application teams by providing guidance on best practices for Linuxbased deployments
• Maintaining documentation for system configurations procedures and troubleshooting guides.
• Participating in oncall support and incident resolution activities as required.
• Setup Network File Server (NFS) and mount points.
• Configuring Chron jobs for both systems and applications.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Fifteen 15 or more years of experience in the Information Technology (IT) field.
• Ten 10 or more years of experience as a Red Hat system administrator.
• Ten 10 or more years of experience administering Unix (AIX) IBM pSeries systems.
• Experience:
  • Working in a complex networked system environment with strong networking
  • Adminstering Unix (AIX) IBM pSeries systems
  • Administering systems including but not limited to the applications below:
    • Oracle WebLogic Servers
    • Oracle Database Servers
    • Progress 4GL/Database Servers/OpenEdge
    • Apache Web Servers
    • vSphere hosted RHEL Servers
    • Rubrik backup systems
    • Oracle Database backups
    • PeopleSoft
    • Mobius
    • Elastic Search
    • Oracle OBI
    • CVS (Concurrent Version System)
  • Red Hat performance tuning
  • Load balancing partitioning backup/recovery and disaster recovery
  • Working in an environment that requires 24/7 system availability
  • Application development
  • Red Hat Support
  • Electronic Imaging Support
• Ability:
  • Work in a team environment
  • Communicate effectively with internal and external personnel
  • Demonstrate leadership skills
  • Interface with users and helpdesk for daytoday support
  • Provide Backup/recovery and networking methodologies
  • Troubleshoot at the Operating System (OS) database and application levels.
• Knowledge of Red Hat administration including configuration and tuning
• Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator. Certification must be issued by Red Hat and include the resources valid certification number.

Educational Requirement: Bachelors degree or postgraduate degree in engineering computer science or related field (as determined by the AOC).

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