Education & Experience:

• Preferred but not mandatory – Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering or degree in IT
• 5+ years of system administration and support experience.
• Hands-on experience installing and configuring a wide variety of servers, operating systems, security appliances, and applications
• Thorough understanding of networking concepts and ability to configure them, such as switches, VLANs, IP routing, and firewall rules
• Experience with virtualized environments such as VMware
• Working knowledge of a scripting language/Python programming, especially as it applies to systems administration and configuration management
• Experience working in QA or a similar testing environment highly desirable
• Proficiency in configuration management tools (Ansible, Salt, Puppet, …)
• Comfortable in navigating a Linux command line and OS through command line
• Able to modify Linux operating systems and debugging system issues
• Onsite availability is a must