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Form of workPeraton is currently seeking a Unix/Linux System Administrator located in Eagan, MN in support of the Postal ETS program. This position will be located in Eagan, MN. This is an on-site position with no telecommute possibilities.
You will join the Midrange System Administration teams and provide Unix/Linux System Administration services for an assigned set of US Postal Service applications. The scope includes the full range of system life-cycle phases including, Build, Application /Service Provisioning, Operations and Decommissioning.
This position will specifically be working on the team to migrate the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Distribution from SLES 11 to SLES 12. The duration of this migration is expected to be through September 2022, but the position has potential to continue beyond this date.
Day to Day Responsibilities include:
- Upgrade of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Distribution from SLES 11 to SLES 12
- Unix / Linux System Administration
- Installation and maintenance of OS
- Contributor to Incident, Problem and Change Management processes.
- User Support / Problem resolution
- Automating existing processes
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree with 5 years experience or Master's degree with 3 years experience or HS Diploma/equivalent and 9 years experience
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- U.S. Citizenship or Green Card Holder (Must resided with the U.S. for the past 5 years with no more than 6 months outside travel of the U.S during this time frame)
- Pass both a client mandated clearance process to include drug screening, criminal history check and credit check
- Experience dealing with management of large (>1000 systems) environments
- Experience with Linux (SuSE and Red Hat) and patch management
- Have some understanding with configuration management of large environments, utilizing automation tools such as: Chef, Puppet, Ansible or other configuration management frameworks
- Ability to take customer requirements and create scalable configuration models to support them
- Process Implementation and documentation
- Experience using Change/Incident Management tools (ServiceNow)
- Senior in Linux OS Administration
- Ability to troubleshoot problems from the Application tier, through the OS and Network tiers
- Unix Shell Scripting
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience upgrading SUSE environments.
- Expertise with custom AutoYaST and Kickstart deployments
- Expertise with SMT and custom patch solutions for SuSE and Red Hat systems
- Expertise with GIT/ GitLab/Ansible/Anisible Tower
- Expertise with Cassandra
- Expertise with Oracle CRS (installation/configuration/maintenance)
- Experience with Kafka
- Experience with Hadoop
- SOX/PCI Compliance Management
- Local to the Eagan, MN area, no relocation assistance provide
- Active USPS clearance and prior experience
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
$66,000 - $106,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
