What are the responsibilities and job description for the Jr Unix/ Linux Technician//Local to NY/NJ position at Amtex Systems Inc?
Jr Unix/ Linux Technician - ONSITE role
Exp- 2 years
************ LOCAL CANDIDATES REQUIRED *************
Location: Totowa, NJ /Orangeburg, NY/ Dayton, NJ( Candidates should be flexible to work at either of these locations depending on the client's need on all shifts depending on the business need)
Duration: 12 Months contract
Local candidates needed
W2- Need candidates authorized to work for any employer, cannot sponsor
You’ll need to have:
Flexibility on work location and the ability to work out of Middlesex county, NJ or Orangeburg, NY or Totowa, NJ on all shifts depending on the business need
Availability to work varying coverage hours including weekends and nights
What’s in it for you:
You’ll be part of a highly creative, dynamic, and innovative team environment that provides 24x7x365 coverage within our data centers. You’ll work closely with various groups including system administration, application development, and SRE teams. You will be integral to the design, implementation, and support of operational procedures on different hardware Platforms that make up the client Computer environment. You’ll have the opportunity to be involved in special projects such as designing, testing, and implementing processes that the operations staff handles.
We’ll trust you to:
Improve operational efficiency by championing standardization and innovation
Utilize good technical, multitasking and interpersonal skills to help drive outages to resolution
Be ambitious, able to work independently & in a team environment under deadlines
Be process-oriented and help develop runbooks and other technical documentation
Stay up to date with new technologies, identifying those technologies/strategies that can help the company's automation efforts
We’d love to see:
2 years of: computer operations background, understanding of data centers, and data communications and experience working with Unix/Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu, etc.)
A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
Experience working with Salt or Ansible for orchestration (preferably Salt)
Excellent written and verbal communications interpersonal and customer service skills
Working knowledge of: Jira concepts and SDLC framework Experience providing and automating day to day systems administration duties; Shell (Bourne), Perl, or Python scripting abilities Experience with open-source metric analytics & visualization tools (such as Grafana, Splunk, and Humio) and multiple open-source automation and management tool-set knowledge (includes: Chef, Ruby, GitHub, Salt, Artifactory, etc., to name a few)