Sr. Linux Systems Engineer

This highly visible central North Dallas company is seeking to hire a Sr. Systems Engineer with strong RedHat Linux experience to join their team.

Qualified candidates will have:

4-5+ years’ Linux experience in an enterprise class data center environment (no HPUX).

Experience should include:

Redhat OS
UCS
vSphere
Redhat Ansible
Ansible Satellite
Load balancing using Net scalers/F5
Emc Storage
Knowledge of enterprise networking and security principles

Primary Duties

1. Designs, integrates, and enhances the server, storage and application software infrastructure and associated administration and maintenance plans ensuring industry-best practices and changing demands are meet.

Assists, mentors, and provides technical direction, leadership, guidance and support for Systems Engineers and other IT staff.

Provides direction and guidance for technical information collection, planning, analyses and standards development for the administration and maintenance processes and prioritizations for the enterprise infrastructure.

Analyzes and presents to IT management reports on enterprise infrastructure capacity and performance for regular reviews by IT management ensuring the IT infrastructure is meeting service delivery levels.

Creates and approves technical document libraries and presentation of technical documentation that provides IT staff and management the details of the enterprise infrastructure components.

Reviews and guides research and presentation of technical information relating to changes in Information Technology-related disciplines, regulations, trends and advances in infrastructure management, providing recommendations for change or enhancements to meet changing demand.

Develops and manages execution and final reporting of results of all scheduled disaster recovery implementations, maintenance and testing activities.

Reviews and approves development, organization, scheduling and presentation of formal/informal training and documentation regarding enterprise infrastructure processes and procedures.

Organizes networking and liaison technical sessions with outside organizations, vendors and resources to enhance the IT infrastructure and ensure the infrastructure meets service delivery levels and changing demands.

Organizes and directs the efforts of internal IT staff or external technical or vendor support teams to provide the highest levels of design, integration, implementation support and problem resolution activities.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Educational/Experience Level
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related field and four years of experience in computer programming and operating systems analysis; or equivalent.

This company cannot sponsor nor transfer any visas at this time. This is a direct-hire position and not available for C2C.