RedHat/Data Center Engineer - OscarMike

RedHat/Data Center Engineer 

3-6 mos contract to hire 

GC/USC Preferred. 

Onsite 5 days a week Ashburn, VA 

Job Description: 

Our Client, a leading streaming provider, is seeking a RedHat Admin/Data Center Engineer who is enthusiastic about datacenter deployment and site reliability for large-scale consumer online services. As a member of our Data Center Engineering and Operations team, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of our co-location data centers and assume a critical role in maintaining the overall uptime, performance, and capacity of services. You will be able to bring your solid experience to bear in supporting the various services we manage and take on interesting and mission-critical projects as part of a fast-paced, highly collaborative team. We hold ourselves to high standards and take pride in our work. 

Requirements:

What you'll need: 

• Plan and facilitate datacenter expansions and build-outs for new and existing footprints. 
• Responsible for monitoring datacenter power consumption and environment with existing footprints. 
• Work with a team of datacenter operations engineers in accomplishing various day-to-day tasks. 
• Facilitate weekly planning meetings with the datacenter team. 
• Collaborate with internal teams to define project requirements for hardware deployment. 
• Create automated provisioning processes for streamlining hardware deployments. 
• Plan, schedule and perform upgrades/maintenance on infrastructure hardware. 
• Manage vendor relations with manufacturers and VARs. 
• Maintain existing monitoring processes and implement new functionality/metrics. 
• 100% hands-on with datacenter infrastructure provisioning and server/network equipment deployments. 
• Rack/Cable/Provision a large inventory of servers, switches, PDUs and consoles. 
• Perform initial configuration of systems as defined by our standard operating procedures. (BIOS configuration, PXE OS installs, DNS updates etc.) 
• Diagnose complex technical problems, provide detailed analysis/root cause as well as remediation/mitigation recommendations. 
• Plan and assist with hardware life-cycle management from provisioning to retiring and decommission. 
• Manage RMA processes with various vendors. 
• Maintain an up-to-date inventory list of all hardware equipment across our datacenters. 
• Implement best-practice methodology for maintaining a datacenter environment. 
• Document and track all assigned datacenter related issues and tasks via our internal ticketing system in a timely fashion. 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• BA/BS Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field. (Or equivalent experience) 
• IT Certifications such as Server+, RHCSA/RHCE, CCNA or similar a plus. 
• Minimum 8 years of datacenter related experience with at least 5 years of day-to-day hands-on experience in an enterprise scale datacenter environment.