3rd Shift UNIX / Linux System Engineer 42341

TCI has an immediate need for a 3rd Shift UNIX/Linux System Engineer in Egan, MN. This is not a Corp2Corp opportunity. This is a long-term contract opportunity with the possibility of hire. In addition to competitive, market-rate based pay, TCI provides all our Consultants with Comprehensive Medical/Dental Insurance, 401k, Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability benefits. THIS POSITION REQUIRES US CITIZENSHIP AND A PUBLIC TRUST SECURITY CLEARANCE. SUMMARY The 3rd Shift UNIX/Linux System Engineer will join the Midrange System Administration teams and provide UNIX / Linux System Operational Upgrade/Availability services for an assigned set of applications. The scope includes the full range of system life-cycle phases including, Build, Application /Service Provisioning, Operations and Decommissioning. Work is performed Monday-Friday 9:00pm to 5:30am CT. RESPONSIBILITIES Unix / Linux System Administration. Installation and maintenance of OS. Contributor to Incident, Problem and Change Management processes. User Support / Problem resolution. REQUIREMENTS Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 5 years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree. Experience dealing with management of large (1000 systems) environments. Experience with Linux (SuSE and Red Hat). Experience upgrading SUSE environments. Have some understanding with configuration management of large environments, utilizing automation tools such as: Chef, Puppet, Ansible or other configuration management frameworks. Ability to take customer requirements and create scalable configuration models to support them. Process Implementation and documentation. Experience using Change/Incident Management tools (ServiceNow). Senior in Linux OS Administration. Ability to troubleshoot problems from the Application tier, through the OS and Network tiers. Unix Shell Scripting Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain a Public Trust Security Clearance. Preferred (but not required) Qualifications Expertise with custom AutoYaST and Kickstart deployments Expertise with SMT and custom patch solutions for SuSE and Red Hat systems. Expertise Ansible / Anisible Tower. Expertise with Cassandra. Expertise with Oracle CRS (installation/configuration/maintenance). Experience with Kafka. Experience with Hadoop. SOX/PCI Compliance Management.