Recruiters Blog: 4 Linux Red Hat Administrators in Dulles, VA. ....12 MONTHS CONTRACT

Aug 26, 2009

4 Linux Red Hat Administrators in Dulles, VA. ....12 MONTHS CONTRACT

4 Linux Red Hat Administrators in Dulles, VA. ……..12 MONTHS CONTRACT

We are looking at bringing on 2 mid-level and 2 senior level Linux Red Hat Administrators.

Must be a US Citizen able to obtain a Federal Public Trust Clearance

The engineer will provide dedicated Red Hat Linux systems support to Red Hat Linux systems at Census Bureau’s* primary and secondary data center locations in Dulles, VA and Bowie, MD. The primary site of operation for the engineer will be Dulles, VA with the ability travel between the data center sites as required. Operations will include 24x7 on-call systems support.

The Red Hat Linux administrator will be expected to interface and work closely with system administrators of SAN, Solaris, OpenVMS, Unix, and Linux operating systems, and the end user community to define problems and solutions and make recommendations. Respond to and close out Remedy tickets for Systems being supported. May be required to support on-call access for mission critical systems. Systems support includes but is not limited to:

o Ensuring proactive management and quality assurance
o Plan and implement system changes and adjustments in a way that maximizes system availability
o Processing and resolving customer support service requests
o Working closely with the CRMs, Business Unit personnel and support staff to quickly resolve issues
o Evaluating and reporting system performance
o Ensuring hardware limits are not exceeded
o Performing system configuration tasks
o Performing documentation tasks