Sr Linux Systems Administrator

Disability Solutions - Kansas City, MO

Full-time

Kansas City, MO

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Sr Systems Administrator is responsible for ensuring the availability, reliability, security, and stability of IT infrastructure. This role involves advanced judgment and analysis in the evaluation, selection, installation, and maintenance of systems software and hardware. The administrator will monitor systems, serve as a support focal point, and plan for future infrastructure needs by documenting direction for their area of responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, isolate, and diagnose complex problems, recommending and implementing remedial actions.
• Apply advanced technical methodologies to monitor operating efficiencies and performance tuning.
• Review, evaluate, and recommend new or upgraded systems software packages and related hardware.
• Develop detailed implementation plans based on architectural plans and complete implementation.
• Serve as Technical Lead on medium to large enterprise projects according to division standards.
• Transform business requirements into technical architecture requirements and design scalable application architectures.
• Work closely with vendors to ensure compliance of supporting operating systems with applications, including required patch levels and hot fixes.
• Implement application and database high availability techniques and application/network security concepts.

Requirements

• 5+ years of systems administration experience.
• 0-2 years of project or technical consultant responsibility.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering with a minimum of 24 semester hours of computer-related courses, or two additional years of direct work experience.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
• Ability to work hybrid or on-site as directed by management.
• United States Citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance if required.

Nice-to-haves

• Trunked Radio / P25 Core & Console / Land Mobile Radio (LMR) infrastructure & subscriber programming experience.
• Advanced knowledge of specific operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Windows Server).
• Highly skilled in scripting tools (like PowerShell, Puppet, Perl, Python) for database, web, and application administration.
• Proven ability to mentor peers and identify appropriate training to improve team's technical bench strength.
• Knowledge and experience with installation, configuration, and administration of enterprise web services, application servers, databases, clustering, backup and recovery systems, portals, firewalls, virtual private networks, terminal services, authentication and authorization, collaboration, and load balancing.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance available.