Requisition Number: 96762 

Insight Enterprises is a Fortune 500 Solutions Integrator helping organizations accelerate transformation by unlocking the power of people and technology. With a 35-year foundation in hardware and software supply chain augmenting our deep expertise in cloud, data, AI, cybersecurity, and intelligent edge, we guide organizations through complex digital decisions to achieve extraordinary results.

 This role is within our Residency Offering, which is a solution that provides strategic technical resources to our customers on a contractual basis.

Job Location: Remote (supporting CST hours)

6-month contract (with opportunity for extension)

Pay rate: $75 - $90/hr W2

Hours: M-F 8am – 5pm CST (+ on-call rotation)

Your Responsibilities Include:

• Manage the performance of the UNIX/Linux operating system, system hardware, and applications.
• Perform application upgrades and fixes.
• Identify and fix bugs involving Tuxedo, Tomcat, and Apache.
• Manage and coordinate teams to address system and application failures.
• Attend project meetings, providing feedback based on the perspective of systems operations to help plan the execution of the production launch.
• Determine the tasks that require automation and implement automated processes to reduce the need for human intervention.
• Manage DNS and DHCP services.
• Document and manage information on OS and program backup and recovery.
• Create bash shell scripts to aid in system stability and deployment repeatability.
• Troubleshoot issues in the environment to make the environment more stable.
• Help with efficiencies, best practices, and policies.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Must have  skills around implementing and documenting a modern way to administer our Linux fleet at scale.
• Able to implement Qualys Patch Management for fleet of servers that allows us to keep vulnerability counts within our standard policy.
• Working with app teams to identify needs for shut down and start up scripts to speed and automate patch installation.
• Second task will be to work with the Pipeline Automation team to facilitate Linux server builds though our pipeline automation framework.
• Have experience with RHEL, CentOS and Rocky Linux.
• 8-10 years of experience as a Linux Systems Administrator.
• Experience with VMware and virtualization.
• Experience with Ansible and Kubernetes.
• Programming knowledge of bash and Perl or Python.
• Experience with web technologies like HTML, XML, or Java2E.
• Strong automation background.
• Experience with Puppet is a plus.
• Must be a US citizen due to the nature of the work.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work in a global team environment.
• Experience with Qualys vulnerability scanner is preferred.

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.