Redhat Engineer / Unix Admin / System Admin

Location: Dallas
Posted on: November 18, 2024

Job Description:

Mastech is a growing company dedicated to innovation and teamwork. We are currently seeking a Redhat Engineer / Unix Admin / System Admin for our client in the IT Services domain. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits, exciting challenges, and the opportunity for growth. This is a Contract position and the client is looking for someone to start immediately.

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

Location: Dfw Airport, TX/ Zip Code: 75261

Compensation: Market Rate

Role: Redhat Engineer / Unix Admin / System Admin

Role Description: The Redhat Engineer / Unix Admin / System Admin would need to have at least 5+ years of experience.

Responsibilities:

- Provide proactive support of customer environment, including alert and ticket review and remediation, capacity planning, patch planning, upgrade planning, tuning, applying best practices and optimizing monitoring.

- Maintain a multi-site Linux and VMWare ESX environment to meet appropriate service levels.

- Plan, test, tune, and configure Operating System.

- Serve as account-specific SME.

- Maintain appropriate documentation for the environment.

- Provide 24x7 on-call tier-3 supports for the Operations Center and participate in off-hours maintenance and remediation activities, as required.

- Enforce change/problem management and compliance processes and be a technical advocate for the client. Continually improve service relationship with the client.

- Work with client technical team to assess requests and create change requests or other procedures as needed.

- Continually improve the environment through upgrades and expansion as needed.

Required Skills:

- Must have a minimum of 5 years' experience maintaining Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 (with experience in 4 and 6 preferred as well) in enterprise production environments. RHCE preferred.

- Extensive experience supporting VMWare ESX 3.5 and 4.x environments, including HA.

- Sound working knowledge of network infrastructure and operations, including DNS, firewalls, Ethernet, TCP/IP, email

- Sound working knowledge of monitoring technologies, preferably HP OpenView.

- Must have very strong problem solving skills and be able to own a problem through resolution and post-resolution analysis and further remediation.

- Must have very strong scripting skills and experience with operations automation.

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Experience: Minimum 5+ years

Relocation: No, this position will not cover relocation expenses

Travel: No

Local Preferred: Yes

Recruiter Name: Smita Banerjee

Recruiter Phone: 877 884 8834 (Ext: 4019)

EOE

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