Linux System Administrator

NCDHHS-730338

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) requires the assistance of Linux (RedHat) administrator(s) for the implementation and operational support of (NC FAST) Applications on AWS/Hybrid cloud.

REQUIRED/DESIRED SKILLS

• Strong experience with Linux administration experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHEL on AWS platform
• Strong Experience with monitoring and troubleshooting Linux systems and applications
• Hands-on experience in performance monitoring enablement to manage the Scaling up and down of the environments
• Experience with Linux OS Patch (including taking snapshots of instances before applying updates) and OS Level Vulnerability Management
• Strong experience with Cookie Security, Web Browser Security, Server side encryptions, Data Encryption at Rest and Key management
• Strong experience with Image Management using Redhat Image
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS) like EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, SSM and EBS.
• Experience in installing, configuring, and maintaining services such as Bind, Apache, nginx, MYsql etc
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Cloudformation, Puppet, or Chef
• Strong scripting skills, specifically in Bash or Python
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, and routing
• Proficient with network tools such as iptables, Linux IPVS, HAProxy, etc
• Experience in capturing, interpreting, and analyzing network traffic
• Solid knowledge of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP and SNMP
• Troubleshooting Apache issues like performance testing and tuning, failure to restart, and queuing of requests
• Experience in performing multi-platform volume management using SVM, LVM, ZFS, NAS, and the VERITAS volume manager
• Experience with security best practices and implementing security controls in a AWS cloud environment
• Familiarity with wired and wireless networking hardware and architectures, Virtual LAN (VLAN) setup and configuration, VPN, Routing, IPV4, IPV6
• Experience in user account management for large organization
• Linux certifications (RHCT, RHCE and LPIC) will be considered an advantage

About the Company:

MVP Consulting