Senior Linux Administrator

Kansas City, Missouri

RIT Solutions, Inc.

Senior Linux Administrator
Kansas City, MO - Onsite

Job Description
Job Duties:

Individuals are responsible for Linux operational support, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades and expansion, on-call rotation. In addition, they will provide support to provisioning/operational staff, as well as work closely with the architecture group in design support and validation of new designs and installations. This position will lead the containerization effort for Datacenter services.
Provide direction and advice pertaining to capacity planning
Provide direction and advice pertaining to future installations and design
Provide direction to automate and orchestrate future use of Linux environments (Tanium, Orchestrator, automation suites)
Configuration management utilizing Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Knowledge and use of containerization platforms (Docker, OpenShift)
Scripting languages (PowerShell, bash, python)

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
10+ years of Linux Administration experience
2+ year of experience in Virtualization Technologies using VMware/Nutanix/Hyper V (MS suite)
Provide direction and advice pertaining to design and configuration of converged infrastructure
Cluster experience (SLES, RH would be good)
Vcenter or Nutanix tools
Strong Communications Skills, both verbal and written
Ability to work independently to achieve goals
Ability to work as part of a strong technical delivery team to deliver computing needs

Nice to have:

Storage Technologies using Dell/EMC and Netapp
Dell/EMC and Netapp replication technologies
Protocols including CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC
Cisco Networking Products
Networking technologies including, but not limited to TCP/IP, DNS, Routing Protocols, Switching
Cisco UCS Servers
VMWare Hypervisor as well as some UCS bare-metal)
Demonstrated experience documenting environments, runbooks, etc.
Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and automation technologies
Infrastructure as Code platforms: Terraform, Packer, Azure Resource Manager/CloudFormation templates
Enterprise service bus platforms

Date Posted: 19 May 2025