Database Administrator

Talentify; Chandler (AZ); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401K

Health Savings Account

Commuter Benefits

Sick Pay

Job summary

Genesis10 seeks a Platform Engineering & Operations professional in Chandler, AZ for a hybrid, 12+ month contract. You will lead administration and optimization of Oracle Enterprise Linux environments, implement SRE principles, and drive automation with Ansible to build resilient, self-healing systems.

3 days onsite weekly is required. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in Linux admin, strong OEL knowledge, and experience with HA, virtualization, and storage.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Linux administration in enterprise environments.
• Strong Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) expertise.
• Experience with high availability, virtualization, and storage management.
• Hands-on automation with Ansible and SRE-informed practices.
• Scripting in Bash or Python; robust troubleshooting abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead administration, monitoring, and performance tuning of OEL environments.
• Oversee design, build, and lifecycle of Linux servers, storage, and virtualization.
• Manage HA configurations, clustering, and load-balanced setups.
• Define and implement SRE principles, including SLOs/SLIs and error budgets.
• Drive infrastructure automation for provisioning and configuration management.

Skills

Linux admin

Oracle OEL

HA / clustering

Ansible

SRE concepts

Bash/Python

Troubleshooting

Tools

Ansible

Job description

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Platform Engineering & Operations - Hybrid position with a Global Financial Institution located in Chandler, AZ. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

This role will lead the administration, monitoring, and performance tuning of Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) environments within a large-scale enterprise ecosystem. The ideal candidate will define and implement SRE principles, including infrastructure automation using tools like Ansible, to build and maintain self-healing systems and improve system resilience. This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week onsite.

Responsibilities

• Lead the administration, monitoring, and performance tuning of Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) environments
• Oversee the design, build, and lifecycle management of Linux servers, including storage and virtualization
• Manage high availability (HA) configurations, clustering, and load-balanced environments
• Define and implement SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Lead initiatives for infrastructure automation (provisioning, configuration, patching) using tools such as Ansible
• Install, configure, and maintain OEL operating systems and related software stacks
• Manage Logical Volume Manager (LVM), distributed file systems, NFS, and automount configurations
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortem reviews
• Ensure systems are secure, hardened, and compliant with enterprise security standards
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to SRE and infrastructure teams

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Linux system administration in enterprise environments
• Strong expertise in Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) systems
• Proven experience in high availability systems, virtualization, and storage management
• Hands-on experience with automation and configuration management tools like Ansible
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (Bash, Python preferred)
• Strong experience with infrastructure troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident management
• Solid understanding of enterprise infrastructure (compute, storage, network)

Desired skills

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a global team environment

Pay range: $55.13 - $63.13 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

Benefits

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.