Immediate job openings for federal contract doing Linux admin, here in NCR. Need someone technical, familiar with RHEL distribution. Long-term possible. They will need to work days on-site, in the East end of Ottawa. Let me know if you can recommend anyone who has 5+ years of Linux RedHat/SuSE. Department with lots of Enterprise Linux already deployed, applications with high profile, public facing consequences. Canada web presence, etc. Etc. The pay is fairly decent per-diem; comparable or exceeding industry standard rates. Email for details. They just redo all contracts, so I suggest this is good for next 2 year. For who wants a decent rate, good time to negotiate it, now perhaps. They get some site introduction. Just pass an email, if interest expressed. Anyone can qualify for interview. Can be early to mid-career, hold clearance or upgrade it when they apply. Even better, if you have work with the government or Enterprise clients already and can negotiate new rate, maybe upward of past. Seems a little rushed to fill this position, so that is ideal for the first candidate to respond. Junior to Intermediate and/or Senior accepted as long as they have the skills. Only send skills / status / available, to pass on your contact info - don't need your resume to obtain interview as this can be done later when they work with the interview. Ongoing demand for multiple Linux contractors. Some more senior may have found the rates were down before, this doesn't appear to be the case presently because demand went up, when all contracts were switched over. = Importance of OSS/FL sys-admin in GC: Why are Linux system administrators important to the Government of Canada? Presently there is a lot of infrastructure being maintained with-in the federal government which is based on Open Source systems running Enterprise Linux. There is support of: installs, web servers, large databases. Did you know: that one of the largest Canadian government portals, now runs Linux? This is a fact as Netcraft confirms that gc is now a Linux shop. For this reason, recruiters need the assistance of the Open Source community to staff each mandate with individuals that are competent, Linux enthusiasts and want to see the Enterprise Open Source platform succeed and compete with closed-source alternatives. This doesn't mean there aren't still use inside GC: Windows(tm) and Solaris(tm), but that Linux is now strongly in-place Enterprise with potentially thousands of Linux server, hundreds new through-out the years. This is where the demand is coming from.. The Canadian government has made their commitment, it is with hopes that they find the ones who are the right type of recruit and who can benefit financially and professionally from contract/full-time work with-in the GC merged-IT environment. What-ever the political future of departments, there is a common platform and it is now designed into the GC, from the documents available. Thank you, -- Allan Fields Himeji Systems, Inc.