Job Description

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Culture

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General description

We are looking for motivated and self-driven Systems Administrators to join our Linux team. Your day will be anything but routine as a member of this team. You will be working with traditional and hyperconverged server technologies, virtualization platforms, as well as Authentication and Access Control systems. You will help maintain, document, and improve internal IT services and policies. This team's contributions will harden systems to meet the highest security standards and best practices. You will work collaboratively to diagnose a variety of complex infrastructure issues as well as automating routine processes. Growth opportunities are available as you step up and lead. You will learn and grow as we help shape the future of the Agency's IT infrastructure.

Work Hours

Must be able to work an eight-hour schedule between 7:00 am and 6:00 pm, 40-hour week, Monday - Friday with occasional work schedule variance when necessary. Perform on-call duty on a rotational basis and occasionally work additional hours based on business peaks. Hours may change based on business need.

Teleworking may be considered if certain working conditions are met. The candidate must have permanent residency within the state of Texas and must be able to meet in office requirements, which can vary among different sections (i.e. report to office 1 day/month, 3 days/week, etc.). Travel reimbursements are not provided for teleworking.



Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.

• Five (5) years of progressive experience in systems administration and design work.

• Five (5) years of experience in RedHat Linux Server environment.

• Three (3) years of experience troubleshooting server hardware, software, application performance monitoring, and capacity planning tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or Management Information Systems.

• Five (5) years' experience in systems analysis and/or Linux systems (RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, etc.) administration and virtualization technologies (VMware)

• Experience with automated operations and tools for centralized management of servers including Satellite, Scripting and Ansible Automation Platform.

• Experience in disaster recovery tests and related activities

• Experience with DELL Server Hardware

• Experience with Nutanix Hyperconverged Hardware and AOS, NCC and Foundation

• Basic understanding of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

• Basic understanding of Active Directory, DNS and PKI Certificates

• Windows OS experience

Substitutions

• One (1) additional year of the full-time minimum experience as stated above may substitute for each year (30 semester hours) of the required education with a maximum of 120 semester hours (four years).

• A RHCE certification may be substituted for one (1) year of required education.

Licenses / Certifications (Preferred)

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

In this role you will:

Architecture

• Research, develop, and document operating procedures for technical support, troubleshooting, maintenance, and systems administration techniques.

• Coordinates, plans, and schedules the installation of new or revised systems, and define business process requirements.

• Coordinates projects that cross functional agency systems, and other state entities that require planning and scheduling during project development and implementation.

• Conducts the training of staff prior to the implementation of systems and provides advice and guidance during and post implementation.

• Recommends to management systems technology solutions and enterprise-related hardware and software standards.

• Assists with budget recommendations for operating systems, including the supporting hardware and software.

• Assists in preparation of disaster recovery plan, including responsibilities and procedures.

• Creates and provides regular and ad-hoc reports for supported systems and applications.

• Provides analysis of current server environment.

• Analyzes, recommends, and implements system changes for efficiency and performance.

• Creates automation routines using scripting and other programming languages.

• Assists development and project teams in designing applications consistent with established architecture.

Operations

• Oversees and provides guidance in troubleshooting and solving complex problems related to system software and hardware incident and problem calls, and in the processing of service requests and tasks.

• Completes projects and perform systems software and hardware reviews.

• Monitors systems, subsystems, and software applications.

• Gathers data for performance tuning.

• Participates in rotating 24x7 on-call schedule.

• Participates in disaster recovery testing

Administration

• Installs, configures, maintains, and administers servers, operating systems, and applications.

• Maintains Authentication and Access Control systems.

• Initiates and maintains accurate Change Management workflows.

• Creates and maintains accurate documentation of current environments.

• Creates and maintains accurate documentation of application/server security.

• Follows agency procedures for maintaining hardware and software inventory.

Attends and completes all Agency required and assigned training.

Perform other related duties as assigned

Veterans:

To receive veteran's preference a copy of your DD214 (Member 4) is required.

Veterans, Reservist or Guardsmen with an MOS or additional duties that fall within the essential duties of the job position or other related fields pertaining to the minimum experience requirements may meet the minimum qualifications. All active duty, reservists, guardsmen, and veterans are encouraged to apply if they meet the qualifications for this position. Please call Human Resources, CPA Veterans Liaison at 512-475-3560/800-531-5441 for more information or assistance.

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Important Notes to the Candidate:

Salary is contingent upon qualifications. CPA employees in the same job classification, if selected, will be laterally transferred with no increase in salary. (An example might be an Accounts Examiner III in Revenue Administration who moves to an Accounts Examiner III in the Enforcement division).

If you are scheduled for an interview and require any reasonable accommodation in our interview process, please inform the hiring representative who calls you to schedule your interview. Whenever possible, please give the hiring representative sufficient time to consider and respond to your request.

Applications submitted through Work In Texas:

Work In Texas (WIT) applicants must complete the supplemental questions to be considered for the posting. To complete the supplemental questions please go to CAPPS Recruit to register or login and access your profile.

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