Highlights
Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Responsibilities & Duties This position supports and administers on-premises Linux resources, including physical and virtual scientific Linux desktops and servers .
Numbers & Facts
| Location | North Chicago, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $65–$71 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people's lives.
Position: Engineers Commodity II
Location: North Chicago, IL, 60064
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
Responsibilities & Duties
- This position supports and administers on-premises Linux resources, including physical and virtual scientific Linux desktops and servers
Specific responsibilities include:
- Troubleshoot and resolve hardware, Operating System and application issues in server and desktop environments
- Assist in developing automated builds of physical and virtual desktops and servers
- Work with systems staff to enhance our Configuration Management infrastructure
- Evaluate performance impacts of planned operating system changes
- Update and expand existing systems monitoring capabilities
- Develop automation tools for systems administration
- Maintain account management procedures to support growing number of researchers and scientists
- Provide technical support to researchers using Linux resources, troubleshoot problems and develop appropriate computational strategies
- Consult and collaborate with scientist co-workers to determine best system configurations for applications
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS
- Minimum of 5 years RedHat, CentOS and/or Ubuntu Linux system administration experience
- Minimum of 3 years scripting experience with Bash, Perl or Python
- Prior experience with configuration management tools, such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet
- Prior experience with physical Linux hardware
Preferred
- Experience with GPU compute in server and desktop environments
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Singularity
Attributes For Success
- Provide technical expertise to improve Linux server and desktop management, performance, and resiliency
- Analytical thinking and problem solving skills for effective troubleshooting and problem resolution
- Ability to work both independently and as part of the team; flexibility in dealing with assignments and in working on several projects simultaneously
- Ability to effectively communicate with people of diverse backgrounds and computer knowledge
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.