SUSE Unix/Linux Engineer

LIS is a leading Technology Company specializing in IT Consulting, Staffing and Enterprise Solutions. We offer a flexible and friendly work environment that enables career growth and opportunities.

Our organization is looking for an experienced SUSE Unix/Linux Engineer for a (1-3) years contract position in Eagan, MN/Hybrid.

Candidates must be either a US Citizen or Green Card US Permanent resident.

Candidates must have lived in the US for at least (5) years and can't have been outside the US in the last (5) years more than (6) months cumulative. This requirement is for the security clearance.

1. Job Title: SUSE Unix/Linux Engineer

2. Location: Eagan, MN/Hybrid

3. Job Duration: 1-3 years

4. Assignment Type: 1099, C2C

5. Pay Rate: Negotiable

6. Special Skills: 7+ years exp., bs/ba, suse, unix/linux, sles, vmware, redhat, unix shell scriting, control-m, smt, git, github, ansible, awx, cassandra, oracle crs, autoyast, kickstart, sox/pci

This position will primarily be working with the team to build and/or upgrade virtual and physical hosts with the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Distribution from SLES 11 to SLES 12/15 using Ansible and adding storage using VMWare tools. Other duties assigned will include contribution to break/fix activities, Disaster Recovery assistance and other Operational Availability tasks.

The engineer should have a deep familiarity with automation and typical applications support associated with these platforms. This role will heavily contribute to the team responsible for design, implementation and maintenance of central IT infrastructure and applications.

Roles and Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Upgrade of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Distribution from SLES 11 to SLES 12.x / SLES 15.x

• SME level Unix / Linux System Administration, infrastructure support and automation support.

• Installation and maintenance of OS

• Contributor to Incident, Problem and Change Management processes.

• User Support / Problem resolution

• Automating existing processes

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum of 7 years' experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

• Experience dealing with management of large (>1000 systems) environments

• Experience with Linux (SuSE and Red Hat)

• Experience upgrading SUSE environments.

• Experience with patch management.

• Experience with VMWare

• Have some understanding with configuration management of large environments, utilizing automation tools such as: AWX Tower, Ansible or other configuration management frameworks.

• Ability to take customer requirements and create scalable configuration models to support them

• Process Implementation and documentation

• Experience using Change/Incident Management tools (ServiceNow)

• Senior in Linux OS Administration.

• Ability to troubleshoot problems from the Application tier, through the OS and Network tiers.

• Unix Shell Scripting

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise with CONTROL-M

• Expertise with SMT and custom patch solutions for SuSE and Red Hat systems

• Expertise with GIT/ GitLab/Ansible/Anisible Tower (AWX)

• Experience with Cassandra

• Experience with Oracle CRS (installation/configuration/maintenance)

• Expertise with custom AutoYaST and Kickstart deployments

• SOX/PCI Compliance Management

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Experience level:
7 years
Schedule:
Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):
Candidates must be a US Citizen or Green Card Permanent Resident.
Candidates must be currently located in the Eagan, MN area.

Education:
Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:
SUSE: 7 years (Required)
Unix/Linux: 7 years (Required)
SLES: 7 years (Required)

Ability to Relocate:
Eagan, MN 55122: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person