Jr Unix/ Linux Specialist

Location: Totowa, NJ / Dayton, NJ/ Orangeburg, NY (Candidates should be Flexible on work location and should be able to work in Passaic County NJ, Middlesex County NJ, or Orangeburg NY 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

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)