System Administrator #1002427
Job Description:

• If you're looking for a career that will provide a challenging work environment and many opportunities to learn, our company is the place for you.
• Join our team and become part of a company full of exciting opportunities.
• We help employees achieve their personal best by offering many opportunities that develop and enhance their skills for career advancement.
• We are seeking a Sr. RHEL Linux Systems Engineer. This role involves managing and maintaining RHEL systems, ensuring operational continuity, and conducting vulnerability assessments.
• The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with RHEL, VMware ESX, and Satellite for patch management.
• Additionally, the role includes some support of Windows servers and workstations and participating in an on-call rotation.

 
Duties:

• Operational Continuity: Ensure daily operations run smoothly, prioritize tasks to meet customer requirements.
• Communication: Provide timely, accurate, and comprehensive updates to management, on-site counterparts, and customers.
• SLA Adherence: Strictly adhere to SLAs, ensure the team is aware of deadlines and targets.
• Documentation: Ensure timely and proper knowledge documentation.
• Vulnerability Assessments: Conduct regular vulnerability assessments for Linux systems.
• Patch Management: Manage patch deployment and ensure timely updates.
• Mitigation Strategies: Analyze vulnerabilities and develop effective mitigation strategies with the team.
• Reporting: Maintain detailed records and prepare vulnerability reports.
• Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams to identify, assess, and mitigate vulnerabilities in RHEL-based systems and applications.
• Regulatory Compliance: Manage critical systems in a heavily regulated environment.
• Teamwork: Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Windows Support: Provide support for Windows servers and workstations.
• On-Call Rotation: Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 support.
• Upcoming Deliverables:
• Server Deployments: Physical and virtual RHEL server deployments and support.
• Patch Management: Patch management via Satellite.
• Multi-Factor Authentication: Implementation of Multi-Factor Authentication using RSA.
• SMTP Relay: Implementation of SMTP Relay.
• Additional Tasks: Handle other tasks and projects as they arise to support the team and organizational goals.

 
Skills:

• RHEL Administration: Proficient in RHEL 6/7/8/9 with strong skills in administering VMs using VMware ESX.
• Patching Expertise: Well-versed in patching processes, techniques, and mechanisms, including the use of Satellite for patch management.
• Network Configuration: Experienced in configuring LDAP, DNS, NTP, DHCP, NFS, static routes, and Samba.
• User and Security Management: Skilled in managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space, and process monitoring in Red Hat Linux.
• Storage Management: Proficient in implementing and administering Linux-based storage managers such as LVM.
• File Systems: Knowledgeable in file systems like EXT2, EXT3, XFS, UFS, OCFS, OCFS2, and other journaling file systems.
• Windows and Active Directory Support: Experience in supporting Windows servers, workstations, and Active Directory.

 
Education & Experience Requirements

• Batchelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

 
Required Skills:

• Microsoft windows
• Data center
• Red hat
• Linux
• VMware

 
Additional Skills:

• SMTP
• TCP/IP
• Networking

 
Languages:

• English

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Additional Info:
 
At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra.  We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.
We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!
FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.
We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
 

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

 
Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
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