Linux Engineer - locals to IL

This is a contract to hire role and need local candidates who can do F2F interview.

The successful candidate will have:

• BA/BS degree.

• 5 - 8 years’ experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in a medium to large datacenter.

• Any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

• Comprehensive knowledge of RHEL kernel tuning, security, and diagnostic tools.

• Comprehensive knowledge of RHEL patching and software management tools, including Red Hat Satellite, Pulp, or similar.

• Experience managing, tuning, and troubleshooting, VMware based virtual machines.

• Experience creating, maintaining, and deploying RHEL templates in VMware vSphere.

• Experience with Centrify, or other centralized authentication technologies.

• Experience supporting fiber channel storage on RHEL.

• Experience with HIPAA, SOX, and/or PCI compliance.

• Experience working in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment while interfacing with multiple internal clients.

• Experience with EMC Networker, EMC Avamar, or other enterprise backup solutions.

• Strong communication and documentation skills.

• Strong configuration management and automation skills using Salt Stack, or similar technologies.

• Strong scripting experience in bash, ksh, python, perl

• Working knowledge of TCP/IP and related protocols (HTTP, FTP, NFS, etc…)

• Working knowledge of MySQL, Mongo

DB, Postgre

SQL, and other databases on RHEL.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory.

• Working knowledge of SELinux.

Desirable

Skills:

• Experience with Data Domain.

• Experience with BMC Remedy.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services.

• Experience with AIX, and IBM Power7/Power8 systems.

• Experience with Cyber Ark.

• Experience with VMware vSphere Integrated Containers.

• Experience with Docker Enterprise Edition.

• Experience with Dell EMC vRack.

• Experience with git, or other revision control systems.

• Experience with Vormetric, or other encryption technologies

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.