Sr Unix/Linux System Engineer

Must be able to obtain a Position of Public Trust Clearance – US Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder), and must not have traveled outside the US for a combined total of 6 months or more in last 5 years. * Must have resided in the US for the last 5 years

You will join the Midrange System Administration team which provides Unix / Linux System Administration services for an assigned set of US Postal Service applications. The scope includes the full range of system life-cycle phases including, Build, Application Service Provisioning, Operations and Decommissioning. Responsibilities include, but not limited to: * Unix / Linux System Administration * Strong Scripting skills in multiple languages * Installation/Configuration/Maintenance of Oracle CRS * Contributor to Incident, Problem and Change Management processes. * User Support / Problem resolution Basic Qualifications: To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below: * MUST have a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 15 years’ of experience. (13 years of experience with Master’s degree.) * Minimum of 7 years of Unix/Linux experience. * Expertise dealing with management of large ( >1000 systems) environments * Expertise with Linux (SuSE and Red Hat) * Unix Shell Scripting * Bash, Perl, C Python, and Ruby Scripting * Expertise with Oracle CRS (installation/configuration/maintenance) * Expertise with configuration management of large environments, utilizing Chef, Puppet, Ansible or other configuration management frameworks. * Experience with Cassandra * Expertise with custom AutoYaST and Kickstart deployments * Expertise with SMT and custom patch solutions for SuSE and Red Hat systems * Ability to take customer requirements and create scalable configuration models to support them * Senior in Linux OS Administration. * Ability to troubleshoot problems from the Application tier, through the OS and Network tiers. * Must be able to obtain a Position of Public Trust Clearance – US Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder), and must not have traveled outside the US for a combined total of 6 months or more in last 5 years. * Must have resided in the US for the last 5 years Preferred Qualifications: Candidates with these desired skills will be given preferential consideration: * Senior status for the following products: Solaris 8, 9, 10; RedHat; Linux (SUSE); Veritas VxVM, VxFS, VCS * Experience with Kafka * Experience with Hadoop * SOX/PCI Compliance Management * Experience with AWS * Patch Deployment * Local to the Eagan, MN area, no relocation assistance provide

Job Type: Contract

Required education:

• Bachelor’s

Required experience:

• Unix/Linux: 7 years