Linux Engineer Contract jobs, Must be local to Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA(Onsite)

Title: Linux Engineer

Location:.  Onsite – Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA (only local or within a 50-mile radius/mandatory)

Duration: Long Term Contract.

Visa Restrictions: No H1b/CPT.

Job Description:

Responsibilities include:

• Engineering of Linux systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs.
• Fluent in various flavors of Linux: CentOS, RHEL and Oracle Enterprise Linux
• Install and configure Linux servers and application residing on Linux servers
• Develops and maintains appropriate system documentation to ensure that documentation is current.
• Contribute to and maintain system standards.
• Provide Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
• Virtual Center administration and troubleshooting
• Strong knowledge of Windows Server administration
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; including documentation
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure/add new services as necessary.
• Upgrade and configure system software that supports infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.

Skills & Experience:

• System administration experience in Linux environments and proficient in tasks such as analyzing log files, managing user accounts and groups.
• Windows Systems Administration and Active Directory.
• Strong knowledge of MS Windows 2008, 2012, 2016 servers.
• Experience troubleshooting system level problems including server failure and OS tuning.
• The ability to create and manage BASH scripting.
• The ability to schedule and manage Cron Jobs.
• Experience configuring and managing Apache Web servers including SSL Certificate configuration, reverse proxy and load balancing configuration.
• Ability to effectively communicate (verbal & written correspondence) in a professional and courteous manner with technical and non-technical personnel.
• Will be required to be accessible 24×7 in case of emergency.
• Hands on VMware experience, including vSphere and administration of VMware clusters.
• Experience with Samba, CIFS and NFS mounts.
• Experience with Nagios monitoring software.
• Associates degree or tech school.
• The ability to setup and configure system and services.
• Experience with VMware Horizon View Virtual Desktop.
• Experience configuring and managing other application server and middleware technologies such as JBoss, AS/Wildfly, IBM MQseries.
• Configuring and managing Apache Tomcat is a plus.
• SOLR experience is a plus.
• Alfresco experience is a plus.
• Experience with DBMS software including, but not limited to, Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server and MongoDB.
• Strong knowledge of Active Directory and Terminal Services.
• Strong knowledge of DNS, DHCP, LDAP, SMTP and TCP/IP networking.
• Knowledge of SAN storage, VMFS, iSCSI, NFS, etc.