Linux/Infrastructure Administrator - Hybrid

Title: Linux/Infrastructure Administrator - Hybrid

Location: Lansing, MI, United States

Length: Long term

Restriction: W2 or C2C

Description:

*** Very long term project; initial PO for 1 year and usually the project goes for 3/5 years with this customer *** Hybrid***

Job Description:

Basic HPC security

Implementing and maintaining data management infrastructure

Providing support for SAN and NAS storage, backup/recovery environments and virtualization infrastructure by implementing, managing, and monitoring the hardware and software

Playing a major role in the security, disaster recovery and services continuity of a highly available enterprise storage and backup infrastructure by following established procedures and compliance requirements

Technical support (installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrade, retirement, troubleshooting).

Configuration management using frameworks such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.

Administration of high speed network storage systems including Mellanox switches, and NAS Cluster.

Managing, configuring, and supporting cloud systems such as setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting cloud compute engines and storage buckets

Managing databases(eg:SQL Server, PostGreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)

Assisting staff to access and utilize computing resources

Co ordinating with Labs and DTMB staff on maintaining and managing the computational resources

Skills & Experiences

10+ years experience with the Linux CLI environment and coding languages such as R, Python, Bash

10+ years experience with workload management systems such as SLURM

10+ years experience with setting up HPC systems including identifying suitable hardware and software needs

10+ years experience with setting up and managing databases such as PostgreSQL

10+ years experience performing System Administration including installation, configuration, and support software, packages, and libraries in various environments

10+ years experience with Network Appliance clustered servers and applicable software

10+ years experience with hands-on troubleshooting, issue resolution, discrepancy tracking, and report generation

10+ years experience with Linux configuration regarding Storage, Networking, Load Balancing, Memory Management, VMs, Firewalls, and System Monitoring

10+ years experience with computer security

Knowledge of package management systems such as conda, Docker and Singularity

Knowledge of automation tools such as Ansible or Puppet and NextFlow

Experience with cloud computing (setting up compute engines, storage buckets)

Strong knowledge of enterprise storage solutions

Familiar with software frameworks used for searching, monitoring, and analyzing big data

Ability to provide good recommendations, and guidance for storage and cost savings for Labs

Knowledge and experience in HL7 messaging

Ability to review and interpret web.config files for plugins and interpret them

Ability to review logs(for eg:IIS logs, Dynatrace logs, etc) to make sure that there is no excess resource utilization and no peaks or spikes occurring on the web/app server

Knowledge in ClouFlare, ForcePoint and the related rule(for eg.C86 rule) and the policies

Ability to understand the existing junction configuration to the application and review those settings in case of a break

Help the team with setting up Failover environment for Apps

Help the team to complete the Disaster Recovery(DR) Plan and DR Testing

Knowledge on CDC hosted apps(preferred, not a requirement)

Required Skills:

10+ years in Linux system administration (Ubuntu, CLI, security, networking)

10+ years in Bash & Python scripting, with pipeline automation experience (e.g., Nextflow)

10+ years in Slurm workload manager – installation, configuration, and job troubleshooting

10+ years in cluster and storage management, including NAS (Qumulo), rsync, and mount strategies