Executive Oracle System Administrator Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Immediate need for a talented System Administrator. This is a 05+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Owings Mills, MD(Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 26- 20272

Pay Range: $65/hr - $70/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide hands on support for delivery and maintenance of IT solutions.
• Provide IT teams and business personnel with technology solutions by weighing advantages of technology standards, market availability of products, and risks and benefits of technology to meet business/IT needs.
• Maintain significant customer engagement, work planning, project management services provided to IT customers.
• Manage RedHat 6, 7, 8, 9 servers from both a hardware and operating system standpoint.
• Manage support of VMware vSphere hypervisor to allow hosting of servers in a virtualized highly available environment.
• Configure and maintain server processes, configurations, and backups
• Maintain and monitor Linux and VMware platform health and performance
• Maintain server inventory information to ensure accuracy of configuration management DB.
• Support the production release management system for documenting, planning, and implementing IT changes.
• Plan, coordinate, communicate and implement security patching activities for Linux server platforms.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes
• Assist in racking and stacking of servers in datacenters
• Provide 24x7 support and participate in on call rotation for critical production systems
• Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours
• Provide technical expertise and/or solution delivery support for maintaining performance and reliability of server solutions.
• Maintain and enhance engagement with business and IT partners to sustain service levels and high availability of server compute services.
• Visible and accessible to clients providing guidance for how to successfully request new devices as needed.
• Build and maintains knowledge of new technologies or technology opportunities for on-prem and Cloud based services.
• Assists in coordinating and implementing planned infrastructure changes for business and/or IT clients.
• Ensures proper implementation of technology both within the production and the development environments.
• Looks for ways to automate processes to allow more efficient use of resources.
• Finds ways over, around and through barriers to success. Self-starter. A results-oriented doer.
• Promotes and encourages Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Certifications such as Azure Administrator, Oracle Cloud Administrator, VMware, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server preferred
• Bachelor s Degree (Computer Science or related field) and 5-7 years relevant experience (IT infrastructure support, application support, cloud computing, disaster/recovery) or 6-9 years of relevant work experience
• Demonstrated proficiency in at least one operational domain such as storage, compute, database, collaboration, application support, [cloud hosting and related technologies]
• Ability to lift up to 25lbs to rack servers with assistance and use of server lifts as needed.
• Ability to travel domestically.
• 24/7 on-call rotational duties
• Experience administrating servers on-prem (physical and virtual) and in Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Experience with Oracle Enterprise Linux, Solaris, Exadata hardware helpful
• Experience with scripting language such as Python, Shell
• Zerto experience.
• Certifications such as Azure Administrator, Oracle Cloud Administrator, VMware, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server preferred.
• Demonstrated ability with knowledge in current versions of VMware hypervisor technology.
• Working level knowledge: Backups, RAID, SAN, and NAS storage
• Excellent communications skills - Able to effectively communicate highly technical information in non-technical terminology (written and verbal).
• Makes well-thought-out decisions on complex or ambiguous issues.
• Understanding of change management principles associated with sustaining high availability of systems and preventing change related incidents due to human performance factors.
• Takes good directions from Team Leads and Manager in performing required work.
• Independence level: works under supervision of Team Leads and/or Manager.

Our client is a leading Utility Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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