System Storage Admin

Cinter Technology Services; United States; On-site; USD 114,616,000 - 128,943,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

No Insurance

401K

Job summary

Cinter Technology Services seeks a System Storage Admin for an onsite contract in San Jose, CA. The role focuses on installing, configuring, and maintaining storage systems and virtualization platforms to support diverse projects.

The candidate will administer Linux-based systems, manage storage provisioning, backups, and security patches, and work with tools like Jenkins, Git, LDAP, and Jira. 9 am–6 pm, 6+ month contract with W-2 status.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of system administration experience in Linux environments, including shell scripting and log analysis.
• Experience managing storage servers (NetApp, Pure Storage).
• Proven ability to multi-task and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Engineer systems administration solutions for various project and operational needs.
• Install or rebuild servers and configure hardware, storage, and services per standards.
• Manage virtualization platforms (VMware, KVM) and storage provisioning, monitoring, and backups.
• Configure security patches, perform daily system monitoring, and ensure patch compliance.
• Maintain installation/configuration procedures and support tier III requests.

Skills

VMware administration

Jenkins

Git

DevOps tools

Linux system administration

Network equipment management

DoD 8570.1 IAT II / Security+

Education

Linux admin certifications (RHCSA/RHCE/CompTIA Linux+)

Tools

NetApp storage

Pure Storage

Jira

LDAP

VMware

Job description

Job Details

• Job Title: System Storage Admin
• Client: Korean IT Services and IT Consulting
• Working Location: San Jose CA 95134
• Working Style: Onsite
• Employment Type: Contract (6 months +) / W-2
• Salary: $40-45/ per hour
• Benefit: NO Insurance, 401K
• Visa Support: No
• Working Hours: 9am-6pm
• Language: English

Key Responsibilities

• Engineering of systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs
• Install new/rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Virtualization platform (VMware, KVM, and other)
• Storage management (Netapp, Dell/EMC, PureStorage, and others)
• Renew storage server maintenance and recommend storage server options
• Experience storage provisioning, system monitoring, backup/Recovery, access control
• Infra automation tools(ansible) support
• Foreman deployment management
• System inventory system (GLPI)
• Network equipment management (Cisco, Mellanox, and others)
• Install and configure systems which support infrastructure and/or R&D activities
• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
• Configure/maintain storage equipment and troubleshoot with vendors.
• Configure/install EDA tools, FlexLM licenses, and troubleshoot software tool issues.
• Contribute to and maintain system standards
• Contribute to and maintain security posture of the systems
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage resources
• Operations and Support
• Install and maintain security patches on the operational and development system, which includes but is not limited to, Red Hat Linux (Centos, Ubuntu…etc.), Windows 2008/2k8R2/2k12, VMWare, and Apache web services
• Report Security Patch compliance
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups
• Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
• Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary
• Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary.
• Create, change, and delete user accounts per request as necessary.
• Provide Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
• Maintenance
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure/add new services as necessary
• Manage existing and/or deploy new instances of Jirra, Git, LDAP, Jenkins, VMWare environments.
• Upgrade and configure system software that supports infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs
• Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required
• After hours and weekend support and/or alternative work schedules are required at various points in the year

The Right Candidate Will Possess

A proactive, detail-oriented professional with strong communication, ownership, and problem-solving skills who can collaborate effectively across business and technical teams.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Especially high skill level of VMware admin and management, also including but not limiting, Jenkins, GIT, DevOps tool administration
• Systems Administration/System Engineer certification in Linux+, e.g., CompTIA Linux+, Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) preferred
• High skill level in managing storage servers (NetApp, Pure Storage)
• Storage provisioning, system monitoring, backup/Recovery, access control
• Network equipment management, Cisco equipment preferred,
• 7+ years of system administration experience in Linux environments and proficient in tasks such as shell scripting, creating corn jobs, analyzing log files, managing user accounts and groups, configuring iptables, and setting up mail services.
• Proven ability to multi-task
• Independent, self-starter
• Ability to effectively communicate (verbal and written correspondence) in a professional and courteous manner with technical and non-technical personnel
• CompTIA Security+ (SY0-301) or other DoD 8570.1 Workplace Improvement Plan IAT Level II compliant certification required (or equivalent experience)
• Familiarity with web-based technologies, including but not limited to, reverse proxy servers, SSL certificate configuration, three-tier architecture, and service oriented architecture, enterprise service bus, http, and differences between browsers
• Able to lift 50 lbs
• Able to move servers to and from main DC to the colocation and labs
• Install new hardware or migrate existing servers (rack and stack)