Linux System Administrator (Remote) – Information Technology Services – Careers | West Virginia University – Morgantown, WV

West Virginia University’s Information Technology Services is currently accepting applications for a Linux System Administrator.

About the Opportunity

As a Linux System Administrator, you will install, configure, and support of Linux based systems. This includes patches, fixes, compilers, software, and other utilities. You will assist in establishing and maintaining appropriate monitoring and alerting across ITS infrastructure to ensure system availability.

We strongly believe in work-life balance and keeping time for things we love outside our work. WVU offers generous benefits, including:

• 13 paid holidays (staff holiday calendar)
• 24 annual leave (vacation) days per year
• 18 sick days per year (for when you’re ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family’s, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)
• WVU offers a range of health insurance and other benefits (this position is a benefits-eligible non-classified staff position)
• 401(a) retirement savings with 6% employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks. Looking for more retirement benefits information? Check out retirement health insurance benefits, retirement income, and FAQ’s.
• Wellness programs

What you’ll do:

• Participate in an on-call rotation to deliver support to end users, address operational issues, coordinate vendor support, and internal escalation of events.
• Assist with automation processes using shell scripts, Ansible, GIT, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Assist team members with users/stakeholders to instruct and help advise in automating their workloads.
• Collaborate and help build utilities and tools for internal use that enable Systems Engineering to operate at high speed and wide scale
• Identify and help drive improvements to technical processes
• Participate in meeting WVU’s goals of migrating operations to cloud infrastructure. Typical tasks include migrating physical systems to virtual, migration of on premises systems to cloud, monitoring resource consumption to ensure proper sizing, refactoring legacy systems to use modern cloud native technologies, etc. This will be done as a team effort with Systems Engineering, Cloud and Virtualization Services, and Infrastructure Architects.
• Help identify and help drive improvements to technical processes
• Learn and leverage groundbreaking technologies.
• Collaborate with members of the Systems Engineering and complete or participate in completing tasks defined or distributed by senior members. This may include collaborating with other ITS groups, vendors, and customers across WVU to gather requirements and successfully complete tickets or tasks.
• Assist senior members with tasks relating to project work. This may include tasks like building servers or working on automation that will help with the support and implementation of enterprise systems. These directives may come outside of the ticketing system

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S. or B.A.) in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field and/or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Two (2) years Unix/Linux Systems Administration experience. Recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux experience strongly preferred.
• One (1) year virtualization and/or cloud technologies and administration experience.
• Self-motivated and ability to take instruction from senior members, while demonstrating the ability to prioritize competing tasks/projects.
• Strong desire to learn, assess, apply whether about technology, people, processes, academia landscape, etc. Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Ability to develop effective working relationships with peers and other University organizations and vendors on local, regional, and national levels.
• Linux/UNIX Experience configuring, managing, or troubleshooting systems of scale (cloud, virtualization, distributed networks, colocation.)
• knowledge of a scripting language (Shell, Python, PowerShell, etc).
• Experience in Networking (e.g. Deploying and troubleshooting LAN, VPN, Firewalls, TCP/IP etc.)
• Technical problem investigation, complex analysis, and finding/implementing solutions in a timely manner.
• Ability to use VMware, AWS, and Azure technologies.
• Understands and implements best practices surrounding system design and business process documentation.
• Red Hat systems administration knowledge particularly around recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions.
• Maintain an active awareness of the current IT industry security landscape, ability to translate how known vulnerabilities affect WVU, and work/assist a plan of action to patch/mitigate as appropriate.
• Ability to provide end user support.
• Ability to develop, implement, and maintain Server Recovery procedures.
• Ability to size and configure UNIX/Linux servers.
• Windows Server administration experience
• Experience with Configuration Management Software (ex. Chef, Ansible, Puppet)

• A valid Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), or the ability to acquire the RHCSA within the first year of employment.
• Additional certifications relevant to Linux/UNIX, Windows, AWS, VMware, Azure administration or related technologies are preferred, but not required.

At West Virginia University, we pride ourselves on a tireless endeavor for achievement. We are home to some of the most passionate, innovative minds in the country who push their limits for the sake of progress, constantly moving the world forward. Our students, faculty and staff make this institution one of the best out there, and we are proud to stand as one voice, one university, one WVU. Find out more about your opportunities as a Mountaineer at https://talentandculture.wvu.edu/.

West Virginia University is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and is the recipient of an NSF ADVANCE award for gender equity. The University values diversity among its faculty, staff, and students, and invites applications from all qualified applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, nationality, genetics, disability, or Veteran status.