(DISCLAIMER: I have no financial interest in whether or not
this position is filled, but there might be people out there
looking for a really cool gig.)
Recruiter colleague Aimee Cheng (acheng [ at ] itnet [ dot ] ca) is looking for someone
with the following qualifications -- drop her a note if you want to chat
further with her:
"I was wondering if you know of any Linux System Administrator with
government clearance of secret level.
It's to work on the Shared Service Canada project.
The SOW is below:
a) Prepare Build and Run documentation based on detail design
specifications
b) Install and configure Operating Systems based on current
documentation and specifications.
c) Install and configure system peripherals, network components,
network printing, support utilities, etc.
d) Test and install new releases and patches of an operating
system and support utilities
e) Install and configure support utilities
f) Monitor, report, test and implement solutions,
g) Handle trouble tickets forwarded from the operations centre
h) Liaise with and provide technical support to clients,
developers, and other support areas to resolve problems and/or plan
installations
i) Tune, monitor and analyse system and network performance
bottlenecks and implement possible solutions
j) Manage all implementation and technical support of mount
points on disk subsystems
k) Administer and manage privileged user accounts and participate
in centralization of authentication.
l) Monitor event logs and report exceptions
m) Check system services state and take corrective actions as required
n) Start and stop services
o) Provide second and third level support
p) Document practices and procedures used by SSC in support of
systems and applications
1) Automation of tasks through scripting
2) Experience with configuration management software (such as but
not limited to: CFengine, Puppet, etc.)
3) Experience with configuration deployment software (such as but
not limited to: Satellite, NetManager, Spacewalk, etc.)
4) Experience with the above mentioned within the context of
virtual environments (VMware) a must.
5) Experience with the above mentioned within the context of
Linux RedHat would be a must.
6) Experience with the above mentioned within the context of
Linux Suse would be an asset.