Remote Azure & Linux/UNIX System Admin Role

Insight Enterprises is seeking a Remote Azure/Linux/UNIX administrator. This position is starting as a 6 month W2 contract that has the opportunity to extend and or convert to a long term hire. If you have skillsets below and are looking for a new opportunity, we would love to speak to you.

Highlights:

Title: Remote Azure/Linux/UNIX Administrator

Duration: 6+ month W2 contract

Location: Remote

Pay: Dependent on experience though in the realms of $70.00 to $80.00 an hour for the duration of the contract

Overview of Role

• Primary point of contact for Azure and Linux/UNIX system administration activities for both operations and projects
• Provide RTS support for all current applications running in the PaaS Azure environment
• Work across teams and vendors to make sure the team are following best practices for incident management, service requests

Basic Core Skills:

• UNIX/Linux Systems Administration
  • OS: RHEL 7 and 8, Oracle Linux 7/UEK
  • Authentication/Authorization (sssd, pam.d, ldap, access.conf, sudoers, etc)
  • User Management (useradd, groupadd, chage, usermod, solid understanding of UNIX permissions, umask)
  • Storage Management (Logical Volume Manager – pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate, lvresize; creating/mounting file systems, automounter, NFS, CIFS)
  • Data Management (rsync, sftp, scp)
  • Secure Shell (understanding sshd_config, ssh tunneling, public/private keys, authorized_keys)
  • Patching (yum, rpm)
  • Services (systemctl, service, postfix – main.cf)
  • Configuration (networking, timezone, package install, Python pip, pip3)
  • IT Security (best practices, log files, auditd, Splunk, Qualys, CrowdStrike, SELinux)
  • Troubleshooting
  • Scientific Method for Problem Solving
  • Opening Azure Support Cases
  • Opening Oracle SRs
  • Commands: strace, ncat, ifconfig, df, ps, top, tcpdump, etc.
• Shell Scripting
  • KSH (preferred) and/or BASH, Python, Perl
  • Ability to read and understand scripts
  • Ability to modify existing scripts
  • Cloud Configure (Cloud-Init)

Azure Core Skills:

• Azure CLI
  • It’s how we build things… via KSH or BASH scripts
• Azure Portal
  • Marketplace
  • Understand Core Resources (Resource Groups, Proximity Placement Groups, Virtual Networks – subnets, Virtual Network Interfaces, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Firewall, Virtual Machine, Managed Disk, Storage Account – standard and premium, Azure Active Directory, Key Vault, Disk Encryption Set, Managed Identity, Private DNS, Private Links, Route Tables, Network and Application Security Groups, Azure Policies, AKS, ASE, Accelerated Networking, Azure Site Recovery, Recovery Services Vault/Backup + pre/post scripts, Azure NetApp Files, azcopy)

Understand Conceptually:

• • Oracle: Databases, ASM, RMAN
  • Networking: netmask, broadcast mask, CIDR, IPv4, IPV6
  • Storage: local vs. shared, NFS vs. CIFS, blobfuse2
  • Azure DevOps
  • Windows

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

Posting Notes: Remote || Arizona (US-AZ) || United States (US) || None || None || Remote ||