[BBLISA-jobs] Mid level jack-of-all-trades lab support admin needed, Red Hat, Westford MA

[Mark Lamourine]

Hi, I'm posting this for a colleague here at Red Hat.  He's the manager
responsible for the lab space in the Westford MA office.  They've got an
opening for a SAGE level 3 (or high 2) system administrator to work in the
datacenter/lab space.  The job is full-time permanent.  The hands-on
requirements will limit telecommuting.

The tasks run from physical installation of systems in racks, cabling,
labeling, to storage hardware configuration and networking, to host OS
installation configuration, monitoring....  All the kinds of things you'd
expect in an active software lab.   The lab space is run on behalf of the
developers and the job will require working with the development teams to
meet their needs, as well as with the corporate IT teams to work within
security and stability constraints.

The job promises to be very dynamic and comes with all the tensions you'd
expect when you sit in the middle of a group of smart people who all want
their own thing and want you to give it to them.  You'll have to ask Steve
about the team environment.  I think the team's small but the space isn't
huge.  It is changing constantly and there's a very broad range of hardware
to deal with.

The people here are, in general both smart and reasonable.  All of the
people in the dev teams are here, so issues can be managed face-to-face.
The lab space is clean, cool, spacious, and has been very well managed both
physically and. system-administratively (??).  There's lots of room for
individual expression and doing the job that you think needs doing.

This is the kind of job I'd have jumped at six or eight years ago.
 Actually, its the kind of job I *did* do six or eight years ago, but the
environment and people here are way better than where I was then.

Steve indicated that they're hot to hire someone quickly so they're likely
to vet every query that comes in without a lot of delay.

https://careers.redhat.com/ext/detail?redhat7962

Hiring manager is Steve Paulino <spaulino at redhat.com>.  He's getting a copy
of this so he can correct me if I'm wrong about any of this.  Feel free to
reply to me or to him directly.

If you're feeling really generous, when you post your resume on the jobs
site, don't forget to mention my name.

- Mark

--- Repaste of official public job description ---

The Role:

Red Hat's Engineering Operations team is seeking a mid-level Systems
Administrator with 2-3 years of systems administration experience to assist
with the principal laboratories in the company's Engineering Headquarters
in Westford, Mass.

The role's primary focus will be on the integration & maintenance of
prototype & production hardware systems into the test infrastructure for
the Red Hat Enterprise Linux development group.

Ideal candidates will possess 2-3 years of Unix/Linux systems
administration and have the ability to configure networking services and
security on servers running a Red Hat OS; preferably RHCE certified. Must
also possess outstanding troubleshooting skills and have worked with wide
variety of hardware platforms and architectures.

The working environment is fast-paced with tight deadlines and shifting
priorities.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Liaise with development teams to set priorities
• Integrate hardware into test infrastructure and maintain it
• Maintain, recommend and migrate SAN infrastructure for lab environments


Job Requirements
• 2-3 years of Unix/Linux system admin experience; strongly prefer
candidates that have earned RHCE certification
• Linux operating system installation, configuration, upgrades, and
maintenance experience
• Networking technology at the physical (twisted pair, fiber optic) and
logical (Ethernet, TCP/IP) level including the
various supporting services and protocols (DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Kerberos)
• Ability to write scripts in some administrative language
(shell/Python/Perl)
• Familiarity with various types of industry hardware (x86, AMD64, EM64T,
IA64, S390/S390x, PowerPC)
• Netapp and EMC experience required. Equalogic and/or HP storage a plus.
• Close familiarity with SAN best practices
• End to end experience with storage stack
• Ability to read and interpret English language technical documents
• Ability to speak business level English
• Must possess judgment & negotiation skills, along with the ability to
find successful resolutions for complex issues, escalating those that
require management involvement, when necessary
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently with minimal supervision

•• Special Job Conditions: must be able to move and install computer
systems and monitors, weighing approximately 50 pounds (23 kg). Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to
perform the essential functions.
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