Senior Systems Administrator - Linux/Solaris

Overview

Are you a Senior Systems Administrator - Linux/Solaris who would like to have a positive impact for millions of people? If so, we may have an opportunity for you!

 

TISTA associates enjoy above Industry Healthcare Benefits, Remote Working Options, Paid Time Off, Training/Certification opportunities, Healthcare Savings Account & Flexible Savings Account, Paid Life Insurance, Short-term & Long-term Disability, 401K Match, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Paid Holidays, Military Leave, and much more!

Responsibilities

• Keep up with day-to-day sustainment activities, (Quarterly Full Stack Downloadable Patch (QFSDP)
• System Maintenance/Tier 4 Escort to replace defective hardware
• Configuration changes/Change Requests
• Developmental calls from associated projects, and infrastructure increases/migration tasks
• Work sustainment activities and take care of all the day to day Change request needs associated with each project
• QFSDP Quarterly process used to Deploy M8 SuperCluster patches through the servers in an through all environments
• Interact and support Infrastructure DBAs to assist in patching Databases on M8 SC
• Work with Principal SA to expand Exadata Disk Space
• Interact with Supplier to Identify critical needs and failures
• Support special projects and provide subject matter knowledge to customers at all levels
• Provide High Level technical and customer support in a RHEL Linux environment
• Lead for the service lines CyberArk effort a
• SME reviewing the Cyber Security (CRISP) related functions in a Linux and Unix OS //Local account spreadsheet

Qualifications

• Must be a technical experts in Red Hat Linux as well as Solaris OS environments 
• Must have experience working on Linux, Solaris an Oracle SuperClusters servers/VMs
• QFSDPP Quarterly process used to Deploy M8 SuperCluster patches through the servers in an through all environments
• Experience on Oracle Exadata Storage Servers
• Experience on Oracle Infiniband Network and Switches
• Experience on Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances / Remote Replication
• proven experience engineering migrations from various platforms
• Working knowledge of various storage platforms and how they interact with Solaris devices
• Possess the technical skill to complete a task with little or no guidance with-in VA policies
• Must be able to perform the following Technical skill: formatting, adding new LUNs, creating Volume and Logical groups, installing AppDynamic and other performance monitoring tools
• Knowledge of Puppet Configuration Control software which is used to scale server configuration to increase productivity
• Experience with CyberArk Privileged Access Security (PAS)
• Experience installing, configuring and securing Red Hat 8 OS
• Technically strong in securing servers for access control and file permissions while providing customers with the capability to function with-in their role
• Skilled writing and executing shell scripting and automation techniques
• Must have working knowledge assigning storage to Linux Servers, assigning logical volume and File systems
• Must have working knowledge creating Automates administrative tasks with Ansible Playbook, GetHUB, and using Ansible Tower along with automating other ad hoc commands

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business, or related scientific /technical discipline and 5+ years' work experience
• Eight (8) years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education (13 years total)

Clearance:

• MODERATE: Tier 2S (Standard MBI) 

Location:

• Austin, TX. (100% On-site)
• Sunday - Thursday (11:30 PM - 8:00 AM CST Time)

• Austin Information Technology Center 

  Department of Veteran's Affairs 

  1615 Woodward St 

  Austin, TX 78741 

Employment Type: FULL_TIME