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Location: Hybrid; (2 days remote, 3 days on-site) Office is in Canonsburg, PA 15317
Job Type: Contract to hire
Work Authorization: U.S. Citizen or Green Card
Overview:
The A.C Coy company has an immediate need for a contract Linux Systems Engineer. This individual will part of an IT team responsible for the planning, designing, building, testing and support of both on-premises and Saas hardware, software, and networking. Our ideal candidate will 3+ years of experience in a Linux environment working with Command line code, SFTP's, and device mapping. Additionally, there is a strong preference for experience maintaining firewalls and working with other IT elements, such as VPN, telephony, email, networks (wireless and lan), and security.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute strong knowlege and skills to the team pertaining to Linux administration and engineering
- Improves operations by monitoring system performance, identifying and resolving problems, and defining action plans
- Perform server administration tasks, including user/group administration, security permissions, group policies, print services, research event log warnings and errors, and resource monitoring, ensuring system architecture components work together seamlessly
- Implement and maintain collaboration security best practices by assessing current threats, vulnerabilities, risks, and associated technical countermeasures. (Proof point, Windows defender, and Sophos)
- Perform the troubleshooting of data, email, voice, network (Meraki switches, routers, and firewalls (Cisco ASA/Sophos Firewall), storage (Vxrails) and other hardware problems.
- Build, maintain, and audit all network and infrastructure related documentation as it relates to configuration, processes, services records, asset inventories, topologies, administration manuals, job instructions, support contracts, etc.
- Support of onsite and remote workforce and provide solutions for efficiency in managing solutions supporting both types of workers
- Perform routine/scheduled audits of the systems, including all backups
Required
- 3-5 years of administration experience in a Linux environment, including networking, server, and application maintenance
- Experience with configuration and implementation of distributed systems on Linux and Windows
- Ability to write line-item commands in Linux
- Strong Firewall background, preferably SOPHOS
Preferred
- Experience with cloud network (familiarity with AWS network solutions, other public cloud, etc.)
- Experience supporting Unified Communications, including PBX, SIP, Voicemail, Hard/Soft Phone Mobility Solutions, MS Teams, Cisco ASA and SOPHOS, Cisco/Meraki
- Experience supporting external Telco services such as vendor management, SIP, POTS, T1/E1, etc.
- Experience supporting a UC environment and solutions (Slack, Zoom, O365 (including SharePoint),etc.
- Experience implementing, maintaining, and upgrading Windows Server OS and Active Directory Domains
- Experience managing and growing virtualized infrastructures using best practice and modern technology
- CCNA or equivalent preferred