Description

Robert Half has a top client hiring a Systems Administrator to work remotely in the Atlanta area! This position is telework, only will need to go on client site occasionally.

If interested, please reply back to this email with your updated resume!

Systems Administrator

Location: 99% remote, may require occasional travel to client site in Atlanta

Duration: 6 months with potential for extension or conversion

Pay rate: $46.50 on W2 (sorry, this client cannot provide Visa sponsorship now or in the future)

Details:

Overview of work environment/workspace

Work is nearly completely remote. Must have reliable high-speed internet connectivity. Laptop will be provided but monitors, keyboard and mice will need to supplied by candidate. Communication and meetings are conducted via MS Teams

How will this role interact and support the team? Size of team?

Team is 13 people. Consists of infrastructure, bioinformatics, developer and training and support teams. This position is in infrastructure group. Will interact with CDC team and CDC staff as well.

Details of the project this role will support

Support CDC with scientific computing infrastructure. For context: This team is serving CDC mission in area of public health. Some of the work the team is doing at the moment directly impacts the CDC public health response, including COVID-19 surveillance and other outbreak investigations. Data is primarily pathogen genomic sequences.

What have others done to succeed in this position?

Being flexible, versatile, troubleshooting and having great customer service and documentation skills on top of the tech skills

What do you foresee as the biggest challenge of this assignment/role?

Being able to meet the computational needs of scientists by supporting their software and analyses needs

What is a typical work day?

Resolving helpdesk tickets, maintenance/troubleshooting and long-term projects. Meetings with customer, other team members

Any growth & development opportunities within role/greater team?

Yes, opportunity to join the team FTE and then the wide world of opportunities open up.

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

· Bachelor’s Degree in IT, computer science, engineering, or another relevant field or equivalent experience (4 additional years of experience)

· A minimum of 8+ years (System Administrator) of industry experience in the areas of infrastructure engineering

· Display commensurate knowledge consistent with a RedHat Certified System Administrator and RedHat Certified Systems Engineer

· Experience working at the CDC or other federal government agencies.

· Large scale infrastructure design and implementation project experience

Cloud Implementation

· Experience supporting a high-performance computing infrastructure.

· High level of proficiency in troubleshooting Linux performance issues

· Familiarity with security vulnerability triage and remediation

· Periodically travel to Metro Atlanta Datacenter as needed.

· Position requires US Citizenship or US Permanent Residency Status and the ability to obtain a Public Trust.

· Clearance as well as 3 years of current and consecutive US residence.

Responsibilities

• Communication and meetings are conducted via MS Teams
• This position is in infrastructure group. Will interact with CDC team and CDC staff as well
• Support CDC with scientific computing infrastructure
• Resolving helpdesk tickets, maintenance/troubleshooting and long-term projects
• Meetings with customer, other team members

Qualifications

• Being flexible, versatile, troubleshooting and having great customer service and documentation skills on top of the tech skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT, computer science, engineering, or another relevant field or equivalent experience (4 additional years of experience)
• A minimum of 8+ years (System Administrator) of industry experience in the areas of infrastructure engineering
• Display commensurate knowledge consistent with a RedHat Certified System Administrator and RedHat Certified Systems Engineer
• Experience working at the CDC or other federal government agencies
• Large scale infrastructure design and implementation project experience
• Cloud Implementation
• High level of proficiency in troubleshooting Linux performance issues
• Position requires US Citizenship or US Permanent Residency Status and the ability to obtain a Public Trust
• Clearance as well as 3 years of current and consecutive US residence

Educational Requirements

• Bachelors Degree

Benefits

• Pay rate: $46.50 on W2 (sorry, this client cannot provide Visa sponsorship now or in the future)
• Yes, opportunity to join the team FTE and then the wide world of opportunities open up