IT Systems Analyst, Linux Administrator - University of Maryland

The Linux Administrator is a member of the Linux Administration team within the Division of Information Technology (DIT) at the University of Maryland, College Park. This position is responsible for all aspects of IT system administration, enabling the University’s research, teaching, and academic units to excel in their work. Working collaboratively with other Linux Administration staff, Platform Engineering, and other operational departments, this role functions as a proactive administrator who can also solve complex IT problems. This person will need a strong background in DevOps principles, automation, system architecture, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. They should understand architecture fundamentals and utilize automation technologies like Puppet, Ansible, Satellite, Gitlab, and AWS Cloud Formation. Using these tools, this person will deploy OS patches, provision new machines, manage configuration states, deploy new AWS solutions, and troubleshoot existing on-prem and cloud deployments, ensuring maximum uptime and service stability. This position is considered an essential position and may be required to work at the normal work location or an alternative location during a major catastrophic event, weather emergency, or other operational emergencies to help maintain continuity of University services.

Our team is what makes working in the Division of Information Technology stand out. You’ll work with a highly engaged, creative, and supportive team to further the University’s mission to provide excellent teaching, research, and service.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.

Experience: Four (4) years of professional information technology system administration experience in an enterprise environment.

Other: Additional work experience as defined above may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for up to four (4) years of the required education.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

* Knowledge of client/server computing techniques, distributed systems management concepts, and computer communications

* Administration of Linux in both virtualized (VMware/Hyper-V and AWS) and physical environments.

* In-depth knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD automation and knowledge of at least one enterprise management and deployment tool (I.E., Puppet, Ansible, Satellite, Hiera, AWS Cloud Formation, Chef, etc.)

* Proficiency in working with data serialization formats JSON and YAML for Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.

* Must be able to participate in a 7/24/365 on-call rotation with the team.

* Must be able to work evenings and/or weekends and/or during change windows outside of regular business hours, responding effectively to emergencies.

* Excellent problem-solving, attention to detail, multitasking, communication, and complex troubleshooting skills are required to work in this challenging and dynamic environment.

* Effective written and verbal communication skills. Must assist, guide, and share information with technical and non-technical personnel.

* Must be able to work well with others in a cooperative work environment.

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and greater management experience in a professional setting.

* Ability to gather project requirements, develop detailed project plans, schedule and execute the project tasks.

Preferences:

* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.

* RHCSA/RHCE or equivalent industry-standard certifications.

* AWS Management experience (I.E., Instance deployment, Cloud formation development, Stack updates/change-sets, AMI creation, etc.) with AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

* Experience with programming in at least one (1) high-level language such as Perl, Nodejs, Ruby, or Python.

* Administration of application middleware servers (I.E., JBoss, Tomcat, Apache).

* Ability to install, modify, integrate, and configure commercial and open-source software applications and utilities.

* Experience managing out-of-band HW service processors like iDRAC.

* In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, BIND, LDAP, and other core technologies such as NTP, TCP/IP, iSCSI, SAN, NAS, networked file systems, etc.

* Experience creating Splunk search queries and utilizing Splunk in the troubleshooting process.