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Red Hat Linux System Administrator

Richmond, Virginia - Posted on July 14, 2025
Published By Alpha Castillo

Trillium Professional is now seeking a Red Hat Linux System Administrator in Richmond!

The client is seeking to fill an open contract position for a RHEL Linux System Administrator. The successful candidate will be responsible for enhancing, configuring, and deploying hardware and software in support of mission-critical enterprise imaging applications. This role is critical to ensuring high performance, reliability, and continuous improvement across all imaging infrastructure.

In addition to other occasional tasks, the candidate’s key responsibilities will be:
-Installing, building, maintaining, provisioning, upgrading, and enhancing servers running RHEL versions 7, 8, and 9.x, as well as OpenShift environments.
-Configuring and maintaining HPE ProLiant servers running SELinux, following performance and security best practices.
-Supporting and maintaining existing shell scripting tools and creating new scripts as needed.
-Collaborating with DBAs and developers regarding access, capacity, and monitoring for Informix and PostgreSQL systems.
-Performing tuning and optimization of both virtual and physical operating systems.
-Installing, upgrading, distributing, and managing OS releases (requires knowledge of Software Distributor and Red Hat Satellite).
-Occasionally working weekends or traveling locally; some overnight travel may be required.

Pay rate is $57/hour. Apply now!

-Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
-5+ years of experience as a Linux System Administrator.
-Hands-on experience with configuration, administration, and installation of RHEL servers in a distributed environment, preferably on HPE equipment. Experience must include hardware buildout, firmware updates, OS upgrades, and capacity planning across all phases of the hardware life cycle.
-Strong RHEL and scripting experience (minimum of 5 years) with shell scripting (primary) and Ansible scripting (secondary).
-Experience with backup, recovery, security, integrity, and performance management in both virtual and physical environments.
-Excellent communication skills and the ability to learn quickly.
-Ability to collaborate with both first- and second-level support engineers.
-Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, while also collaborating effectively with team members.
-Strong troubleshooting skills, including interaction with non-technical court personnel.

Preferred
-7+ years of experience as a Linux System Administrator.
-2+ years of experience configuring and installing RHEL on HPE ProLiant bare metal machines.
-Experience setting up and installing OpenShift environments and administrating oVirt systems.
-Experience upgrading systems from RHEL 7.x.
-Experience patching and upgrading RHEL using Red Hat Satellite.
-Knowledge and experience with Red Hat Virtualization. Experience with HPE Primera Storage Arrays, HPE Insight, and GreenLake.
-Data Protector, Samba, Informix, PostgreSQL, and RHV experience preferred, especially in a court environment.
-Red hat certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification.

Tooland Technologies
-Operating Systems: RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x; SELinux
-Clustering Technologies: oVirt, OpenShift
-System Deployment Platform: Red Hat Satellite
-Miscellaneous Tools: Storix, Data Protector, Ansible


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Trillium offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes the ability to participate in health insurance and retirement plans, paid holidays, state required leave, and vacation days, if applicable. Trillium’s offerings are dependent on the state in which the assignment is located, length of time worked, and may change depending on assignment. Benefit packages for direct hire placements vary based on the client company.

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