03/17/2010 - Kforce Opening - Red Hat Engineer - Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
Job: Certified Red Hat Linux Engineer
Location: Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
Duration: 6 Month Contract-to-hire
Clearance Needed: Minimum Secret or EOD
Authorization Status: US Citizens Only
Any travel involved: None
Start date: ASAP
How many resources currently needed for the requirement: 1
Job Description:
The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of systems engineering experience, including 5 + years of OS engineering experience in complex, large-scale IT environments. You should also have 5+ years experience and demonstrated current expertise with Red Hat Linux operating systems (RHEL4 and RHEL5) and related products at a senior engineering level.
Strong preference for Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) / Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) RHEL4 or newer.
Current experience with storage subsystems including SAN infrastructure, systems clustering, and volume management.
Demonstrated expertise with high availability and disaster recovery solutions leveraging current versions of Red Hat Cluster Suite including Global File System, and Symantec Veritas HA/VCS technologies.
Linux kernel tuning, debugging, and diagnostics, and related toolsets.
Experience working with vendor processes such as Red Hat Issue Tracker and related support procedures.
Subject matter expertise with Red Hat OS families and evolution, Red Hat patch management, principles and deployment, and related toolsets.
Current hands-on experience with Linux provisioning and update systems such as yum, etc.
Demonstrated experience with Kickstart including examples of viable Kickstart files.
Demonstrated experience with RPM building.
Demonstrated experience with scripting including shell, Perl, and/or Python and the ability to cite differences in use.
Current experience in data center class engineered environments Data Center including DMZ’s and data migration techniques.
Experience with the open source development model of project coordination and related tools including Subversion, Bugzilla, etc.
Experience with authentication and naming service technologies such as LDAP, Keon, Kerberos, etc.