Linux Engineer – Allentown, PA
Note that this is both an ENGINEERING and OPERATIONAL position, meaning the candidate needs to be able analytically think about how solutions fit into the bigger picture as well as understanding how what gets designed leads to successful and efficient operations. I don’t want resumes for project managers, business analysts or people who have NOT worked with these technologies within the last year. The candidate must be okay working when we need them (daytime, evenings, weekends, etc). They will be part of a fast paced team and will need to be a self-starter and pick things up fast. The successful candidate will be a motivated, self-directed team player who can bring second and third level technical experience into the team and provide a can-do attitude. This position will be a part of the Server Support team who are responsible for providing both design and operational support for the Linux servers that make up the application hosting environment for PPL's business applications. The primary hosting platform runs on HP C7000 blade enclosures however support will be required for Dell x86 hardware as well as Cisco UCS platforms. Primary job responsibilities include project related consulting and design work as well as server operating system setup, administration and troubleshooting to meet the business requirements of PPL. In addition, the candidate should be able to troubleshoot, manage, resolve and complete incidents, problems and requests on the Linux platform with our internal customers as required. Additional responsibilities include performing storage provisioning, zoning and troubleshooting of server storage issues as required. 1. Five plus (5+) years of hands-on technical experience in an enterprise server environment of 500+ servers 2. Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills as well as the ability to think strategically 3. Capable of leading resolution to defined problems of moderate complexity 4. Demonstrate root cause analysis and resolution 5. Strong written and verbal communications as well as interpersonal skills. Comfortable and effective with team and business partner communications (at mid-level management level) 6. On-call support 24x7 as required along with evening and weekend work when required <http://rmprod.kforce.com/recruitMach/index.cfm?event=jobOrder.displayJobOrder&id=1405820&szWordsToHighlight=&szTemplate=0#top> <http://rmprod.kforce.com/recruitMach/index.cfm?event=jobOrder.displayJobOrder&id=1405820&szWordsToHighlight=&szTemplate=0#top> 2) Server Engineers, one focused on Windows and one focused on Linux/Unix and I’ve attached the “formal” requirements, but this is what I need in your candidates in a more candid form: • Current HP blade chassis experience. I mean real experience working on them, not just giving me the information from the HP website. We also are moving to Cisco UCS blades and rack mounts in the next 3 months, this person should be familiar with that as we’ll ask them to help engineer and then operate the environment as we look to stand it up. • They need to be technically sound in the setup, configuration and troubleshooting of and Red Hat Linux 5.x and 6.x along with Satellite and SCRIPTING experience (for the Linux RFP). • Understands storage and SAN configurations enough to troubleshoot problems related to HP blades, boot from SAN and multipathing as well as dealing with replicated storage • Ability to document and create new processes and procedures to drive efficiencies by thinking “out of the box” • Real experience with VMWare ESX. Our environment is currently be 85%-90%, so this is critical to be successful in this position. If they can manage an ESX environment in full, that’s a plus. • I really need a person who can think and not someone looking for us to tell them what to do, think “self-starter” and “low-maintenance”, that’s what I need. Note that this is both and ENGINEERING and OPERATIONAL position, meaning the candidate needs to be able analytically think about how solutions fit into the bigger picture as well as understanding how what gets designed leads to successful and efficient operations. I don’t want resumes for project managers, business analysts or people who have NOT worked with these technologies within the last 6 months. The candidate must be okay working when we need them (daytime, evenings, weekends, etc). They will be part of a fast paced team and will need to be a self-starter and pick things up fast in order to provide value back to us very quickly to be successful as we are in the midst of a divestiture of our supply business line and recently completed an organizational change. This is a 9-12 month contract until December 2015 at the latest with possibility of extension, but that’s never a guarantee and they need to be okay with that. Start date can be as soon as they are willing to get through our initial screening process (NERC). I’ll be doing phone screens Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday if possible so have your TOP candidates to me ASAP, hopefully the RFP will be out by then. You can ignore the dates they give you in the RFP as that’s just a formality, you can work directly with me. I always give preference to LOCAL candidates to Lehigh Valley however I understand the challenges of finding the right talent. But from your perspective, if you get me a candidate that is moving to Lehigh Valley, make sure they actually show up for the job because I have had way too many people NOT show up for their first day in that arrangement. 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