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Linux Administrator

Redmond, WA
2017-08-29 15:35:43
Job Type: Contract

Job Title: Sr. Linux Administrator

Location: Redmond, WA

Contract on W2

Only GC, USC and OPT

Duties:


Manage the overall health, performance, and capacity of a High Performance Computing environment that generates and analyzes petabytes of data.

Provide hands on break/fix of the server, network, storage, and monitoring infrastructure.

Identify areas for automation, and create tools to reduce the complexity of the environment and/or reduce operational workload.

Partner and collaborate with engineers to grow and tune the infrastructure in support of a custom media application.

Foster and maintain cross functional relationships with both technical and non-technical teams with a focus on data driven decision making.

Effectively communicate timelines, service dependencies, resource constraints, and progress with key stakeholders in a timely manner.


Skills:


5+ years of experience managing, performance tuning, and troubleshooting Linux systems.

5+ years of experience with core infrastructure services (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP networking, and configuration management such as puppet, chef or ansible).

3+ years supporting server hardware at the physical level including diagnostics, component replacements and tuning.

3+ years of experience designing, managing, and implementing high performance NAS systems such Isilon or Gluster.

Experience troubleshooting skills that span all layers of the infrastructure (systems, storage, network).

Preferred: Experience with video capture, IP cameras, media processing workflows and automation, and large scale data management.



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