Role: Systems Engineer
Duration: 6 months Contract To Hire
Location: Westfield Center Ohio 44251
Candidate Requirements
Top 3-5 Must-Have Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, and/or commensurate experience.
- If Junior Systems Engineer candidate must have 2-3+ years of industry experience. Junior is preferred.
- If Senior Systems Engineer candidate must have 4-5+ years of industry experience.
- 4-5+ years of experience in Systems/IT Infrastructure or a related field.
- 4-5+ years of experience in Linux Administration (Client on RHEL8 and RHEL9) and Java Application Support (Client uses all types) is REQUIRED. WebSphere administration experience is desired but NOT required. The candidate will be trained on the WebSphere essentials.
- Must have demonstrated RHEL Administration experience including deployment, upgrades, certificate renewals, software installs, patching and incident management.
- Must have ability to provide Java Application Server administration and support in Client's WebSphere and Tomcat environment within IT Operations and various Asset teams. Will also support other assets owned by the Linux team including Linux OS, Puppet, GrayLog, F5, OpenShift Kubernetes and others.
- Certifications: Microsoft or Redhat or Linux nice to have but not mandatory.
Job Description
Linux Administrator/Engineer will be a contract-to-hire service. Selected candidate provide administrative support and engineering within the Client's Linux and WebSphere environment which include Linux RHEL8 and RHEL9 Servers and OpenShift Kubernetes clusters.
Job Responsibilities:
- Serves as a technical resource responsible for the daily operations support, maintenance and administration of the resources managed by Operations & Infrastructure teams
- Acts as the primary liaison between the service desk and the administrators and monitors, maintains, and operates various IT systems.
- Leads the developing of solutions on complex infrastructure projects and designs, installs, configures, and performs systems integration testing of server/desktop operating systems, security, related utilities, and hardware.
- Designs, delivers, and supports system services and drives the successful operation, evolution, and support of applications and systems deployed to physical or virtual Servers in the private or public cloud.
- Researches, analyses, evaluates, and monitors network infrastructure to ensure networks are configured to operate at optimal performance and recommends improvements to network operations and integrated hardware, software, communications etc.
- Supports all users and field engineers to resolve hardware issues as well as remote troubleshooting to resolve software user issues or other IT issues.
- Supports the implementation and management of servers, client devices, operating systems, application systems and infrastructure within the scope of activity of the department and provides specialized assistance to their users.
- Provides data backup, server backup and recovery services including those required for business continuity and disaster recovery operations.