Six month contract with possibility of extension

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Redhat, CentOS, and other Linux operating systems  
• Satellite management, scripting languages, and puppet/chef/ansible automation
• Configuration, maintenance and respond to the alerts of the monitoring system
• Prepare for new product related releases and assists with new initiatives and upgrades
• Work with our product development team to implement and support new client offerings
• Explore and integrate new technologies, transitioning operations from traditional administration and deployment to infrastructure as application leveraging automation/configuration management technologies
• Work with Security initiatives including hardening of golden images, OS patch lifecycles, fixing vulnerabilities, implementing PAM/SSO, and other security related projects

Requirements:

• 10+ years’ experience as Linux Administrator
• Occasional work after hours or weekends at our co‐location facility   
• Rotational after‐hours support with 24/7 on-call duty     
• Ability to lift up to 50lbs
• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Computer Science or 10+ years of experience in lieu of degree
• US Citizenship required

*Hybrid employees must live within 75 miles of the iconectiv office in Bridgewater, New Jersey, which is the in-person office location where the employee will report when working in-person

Additional Skills:

• Strong background in Linux/Unix administration and understanding of code and script (Bash, PHP, Python, Perl and/or Ruby)
• Experience with managing virtual assets in VMware environments
• Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes or Redhat Openshift clusters
• Experience with Redhat IPA and Okta
• Strong technical problem-solving skills and experience in IP networking and static routing SFTP, SSH, SMTP, DNS, HTTPS, DHCP, Syslog logging facility
• iconectiv has a footprint in AWS, Azure and Google cloud providers.  The person coming onboard must be experienced in administration of one or more of the cloud providers
• Experience with Avamar backups and recovery or similar backup tools
• Experience in a high‐availability, mission critical environment, and disaster recovery testing