Linux Admin

Linux Admin

Posted Today by Select Source International

Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote or Hybrid in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Job Title: Linux System Engineer
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 12+ months
Primary Job Responsibilities
  • Perform daily case activities with meticulous adherence to established guidelines, SOPs, and internal workflows, ensuring thoroughness and accuracy.
  • Deliver outstanding customer support through strong professional communication, comprehensive technical knowledge, and advanced troubleshooting to effectively resolve diverse technical challenges.
  • Efficiently and quickly analyze reported issues to identify root causes and key problem areas, then communicate clear, concise, and effective corrective actions and resolutions to customers promptly and professionally.
  • Collaborate with support engineers, cross-functional internal teams (e.g., development, product management), and external partners as needed during problem resolution to ensure comprehensive and efficient solutions.
  • Document all diagnostic steps, contributing to knowledge base articles and reusable solutions for efficient future incident resolution and team knowledge enhancement.
  • Proactively pursue personal and professional growth by continuously expanding product knowledge, refining technical skills, and obtaining relevant industry certifications to enhance expertise and contribute to team capabilities.
Required Qualifications
  • Minimum 3 years of Linux systems administration expertise, encompassing fundamental commands, user management, installation procedures, networking, firewall configuration, security measures, clustering, web server management, and database knowledge
  • Proven ability to grasp general Linux principles and a comprehensive understanding of Red Hat's product suite and their functionalities
  • Proficient in utilizing Linux command-line tools, with a strong emphasis on bash scripting, cURL, kernel crash analysis, strace, Wireshark, and Git
  • Excellent professional communication skills, capable of interacting respectfully and efficiently with customers, partners, third-party vendors, and Red Hat colleagues
  • Self-motivated with sound judgment and effective decision-making abilities
  • A strong interest in system troubleshooting, problem resolution, issue investigation, and root-cause analysis
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks effectively and perform well under pressure
  • Relevant industry certifications are desirable, and a willingness to pursue the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification is expected
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical discipline
  • Experience in highly-regulated industries (Healthcare, Banking, Government)
  • Specific experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), or other Products
  • Relevant experience as a support or development engineer for a PaaS provider or hosting service, or with hosted applications or large-scale application deployments
  • Working technical knowledge of other products (Ansible, IdM, Satellite)
  • Development-level experience with programming languages (Go, AngularJS, Python, .NET, C)
  • Existing Red Hat Certification credentials