Linux Systems Administrator (Temporary)
$75,000–$75,000 year
On-siteBeavercreek, Ohio, United States
Job Summary
Manage and maintain Linux clients and servers across physical and virtual environments, ensuring high availability and security compliance. Perform OS upgrades, patch management, and security hardening on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, and Ubuntu. Troubleshoot server, application, storage, and network issues while developing automation scripts using Bash, Python, or Ansible. Monitor operations via logging tools, remediate compliance scans, and recover from hardware or software failures. Create technical documentation and coordinate with tier 3 roles during outages. This temporary position ends in December at the Beavercreek, OH office.
Required Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or other related field of study
- 5+ years of experience administering enterprise Linux environments
- DoD 8140 - Intermediate Certification (CompTIA Security+ or equivalent)
- Strong, verifiable experience in Linux system administration, including configuration, patching, user management, and security hardening
- Experience in automation with Ansible or similar tools
- Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware vSphere
- Experience working on deployment environments including virtual machines
- Knowledge of SSH, SCP, TCP/IP networking, DNS, DHCP and firewalls concepts
- Self-motivated, detail oriented, responsible team player able to work independently with minimal daily direction
- effective/efficient written/verbal communication skills
- Ability to work and interact with technically and organizationally diverse personnel
Desired Qualifications
- Seeking a candidate that has at least 5 years' experience performing systems administration
- Experience across traditional IT stack (Clients, Networking, Servers, Storage)
- Familiarity with enterprise PKI, SSL/TLS certificates, and security compliance frameworks
- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices
- Has applied STIGS or CIS Benchmarks to Linux operating systems, Windows operating systems, network devices, ESXi hosts, or required applications
- Experience with building systems and maintaining tools such as Bitbucket, Bamboo, GitLab, etc
- Experience working/developing in multi-domain, multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud environments
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