Remote Sr Linux Administrator

Post Date

Dec 04, 2023

Location

Herndon,
Virginia

ZIP/Postal Code

20170
US
Jul 28, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

System Administrator

Req #

DC0-668069

Pay Rate

$47 - $70 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

* Monitor all systems and work, to resolve complex issues in Linux and Windows environments

* Administer efficient work of servers and systems and provide support to everyday operations

* Support traditional datacenter infrastructure and AWS environment.

* Partners with team members and other personnel to gather data, needed to depict current IT systems and target state for business process (i.e., process swim-lanes, affinity diagrams, context diagrams, presentations, IT architecture diagrams, system inventory, plans etc.).

* Identifies technical architecture, data risks and inefficiencies

* Works with the client's internal and external projects (programs), IT and Business SMEs to depict Business / IT process relationships, delivery and improvement

* Responsible for deploying patches/releases in Windows and Linux environment for various client applications

* Identifies and analyzes IT and process documentation to identify gaps and efficiency recommendations

* Develop and Document modeling standards, processes and best practices pertaining to ITIL and Lean standards for services model

* Ability to identify risks pertaining to application architecture transformation, enhancements and changes

* Ability to institutionalize new methodologies and tools for IT Service Management, monitoring and control such as ServiceNow, Splunk, etc.

Required Skills & Experience

Required Work Experience:

* 10+ years of experience in Linux Systems Administration, IT/Data architecture planning, design and development specially in 3 tier architecture (zones)

* 3+ years of experience in AWS infrastructure

* Proven experience managing, provisioning and upgrading storage environments. Some knowledge of HPE 3par desired

* Demonstrated experience with a detailed understanding of current and future technology trends as they apply to those environments, including cloud computing

* Demonstrated experience managing, upgrading Netbackup environments

* Proven experience identifying technology gaps in current system capabilities and architecture

* Experience with managing VMware. Migrating to new version is a plus.

* Experience with architecting systems for deployment in cloud computing environments. AWS experience a plus.

* Demonstrated experience working effectively across internal and external organizations

* Demonstrated experience drafting documentation including functional and system requirements, configuration management plans, disaster recovery plans, user guides, System Security Plans, production data waivers

* Experience with PowerShell

* Some experience with Red Hat Linux is a plus

* Experience with Asset Management

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Education:

* Bachelor's Degree preferred with a concentration in Computer Science, Information Technology, and Information Systems, or relative experience



Desired Certificates, Licenses and Registrations:

* AWS desired

* VMware desired

* Network+ desired

* Security+ desired

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.