Job Description :
DC Technician/ Windows Admin
Duration: 1 year contract role with potential for extension or conversion Ideally would like to convert.
Location: Glen Allen, VA
Shift: Monday to Friday from 3PM to 12AM
Responsibilities: ?
- Managing Linux and Windows Servers in an admin role for various application within ranging from Active Directory, VDI, O365, HR related applications I&AM and ISRM.
- Driving incident resolution through a systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
- Supporting production system deployments while ensuring SLAs are met
- Progress, protect, and provide for the software and systems behind all of Client’s external and internal customer facing services with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity
- Collaborating with other tech leads and support teams to ensure integrated end-to-end availability, reliability, and performance
- Manage Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipelines
- Influencing resiliency and scalability in production environments in Amazon Web Services and Azure
- Equipping systems with automated monitoring and alerting
- Design, write and deliver technical and process automations to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Client’s services
- Solve problems relating to critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions
- Influence and support new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems
- Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning
- Identifying and remediating risk to critical and non-critical system KPIs
- Provide technical leadership with Unix systems internals and networking
- Identify and implement opportunities for automation of routine maintenance tasks and common issues
- Troubleshoot networking problems with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of network theory including various concepts such as networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, etc, MAC addresses, IP packets, DNS, OSI layers, and load balancing.
Basic Qualifications: ?
- Bachelor’s Degree or Military Experience
- At least 1 year of experience in leading production support teams, software development teams
- At least 1 year experience in enterprise support, ITIL practices and principles
- At least 1 year of experience in supporting production systems in a cloud environment
Preferred Qualifications:
-1+ years of experience with one of the following: Linux, UNIX, Openstack administration Python, Ruby, Go, JavaScript development experience NoSQL platforms
- 1+ years of experience with any of the following: AWS cloud services configuration & administration Chef, Ansible, Puppet or UDeploy Jenkins, Codeship, or Travis experience Restful web/API services support and deployment
- 1+ years of experience with Splunk, BlueStripe, Zabbix monitoring / alerting