Linux System Administrator

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Roles and Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Participate in the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architect direction.

• Assist in the analysis, design and development of a roadmap and implementation based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint.

• Gather and analyze data and develop architectural requirements at project level.

• Participate in the infrastructure architecture governance model.

• Support design and deployment of infrastructure solutions meeting standardization, consolidation, TCO, security, regulatory compliance and application system qualities, for different businesses.

• Research and evaluate emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in project development and/or operational support activities.

• Coach and mentor team members

• Serve as technical authority ongoing administration and incident management support of core infrastructure [network, security, and virtualization, patching, monitoring, backups] technologies that underpin Software Solutions Factories;

• Responsible for operating and maintaining security tools. Running and analyzing vulnerability and compliance scans to support continuous monitoring reporting and vulnerability management.

• Cyber Security, risk and compliance: Improve Cyber posture through L1/L2 and L3 day to day incident management support operations. Work with Digital Grid IT CISO and relevant security contacts to resolve and reduce cyber security incidents and compliance challenges;

• Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of IT operations and drive significant operational, risk management, and economic benefits for their organization;

• Quality process: Ensure all tasks are carried out with respect to applicable processes and procedures [e.g. ISO9001 and ISO27001] applicable to site[s] and functions within job scope

• Business knowledge - Become familiar with IT hardware and software products to enable administration & design of IT technologies that will enable growth and improve the competitive edge.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree. A minimum 8 years of professional experience.

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

• Willingness to travel abroad for on-site missions (up-to 50% of the time or more)

• Fluent English speaker

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science or equivalent knowledge or experience

• Proven track record of problem analysis, identification and resolution

• Excellent communication skills, commitment, discipline, positive attitude, following management prioritization, accountability and flexibility

• Strong understanding of ITIL and change management policies and procedures

• Strong IT experience in a technical hands-on position

• System administration: Windows- core competency to install, configure, manage

• Linux Administration and security is a must

• Network hardware: Cisco enterprise hardware. VLAN, ACL, routing and VPN - install, configure, manage

• Security management: Enterprise firewall equipment e.g. Cisco's ASA / Fortinet's Fortigate or equivalent - install, configure, manage

• Windows / Active Directory Services - install, configure, manage

• Virtualization: VMware vSphere clusters, experience with HA, DRS, and vStorage backup APIs desirable Storage:
  Shared NAS/SAN network storage e.g. HP 3PAR/MSA/EVA, EMC DataDomain.
  Backup Technologies Incident response and vulnerability management (NetBackup, BackupExec, Veeam, Networker)

• Good knowledge about anti-virus implementations (McAfee EPO, Bitdefender, Microsoft Forefront, etc.)

• Good knowledge working with IPAMs and password solutions

• Experience in implementing and/or working with monitoring tools, log monitoring tools, log correlation tools.(Nagios, Graylog, Splunk, etc.)

• Very good Cyber/Security foundation

• Skilled level expertise in design of computing or network or storage to meet business application system qualities

• Understands technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction aligning with business goals.

• Understands concepts of setting and driving architecture direction.

• Familiar with elements of gathering architecture requirements.

• Understands architecture standards concepts to apply to project work.

Business Acumen:

• Understand key cross-functional concepts that impact the organization; is aware of business priorities and organizational dynamics.

Leadership:

• Familiar with concepts of costing hardware and software components. Works to assure work is on-time and within budget.

• Delivers tasks on-time with alignment to architectural goals. Can identify and raise issues, risks and benefits.

• Participates in change initiatives by implementing new directions and providing appropriate information and feedback.

Personal Attributes:

• Applies values, policies, procedures and precedent to make timely, routine decisions of limited, clear choice.

• Reacts open-mindedly to new perspectives or ideas. Considers different or unusual solutions when appropriate.

• Resolves day-to-day issues related to strategy implementation. Escalates issues that impact the client and/or strategic initiatives.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No