Summary
The Lead Systems Administrator performs and oversees a variety of key functions to ensure IT infrastructure is available, reliable, secure, and stable. Applies advanced judgment and analysis in the evaluation, selection, installation, and maintenance of hardware systems that are highly visible and critical to the business. This position will serve as the technical lead to projects that are large and/or complex in nature and will work closely with project leads and the IT architects. The Lead Systems Administrator will provide mentorship to new team members, as well as provide technical guidance to the rest of the team through documentation and continual training. Primary duties will revolve around applying existing Linux skills with the willingness to learn, manage and support all aspects of our big data environments.
Duties and Responsibilities
Expertise in infrastructure design, configuration, installation, security and ongoing support.
Leads the installation and configuration of software updates and deploys application code releases to production and non-production environments.
Accountable to install, configure, and maintain high availability of the environment.
Leads performance and capacity planning. Provide recommendations to management to sustain forecast business growth needs.
Leads the team to develop and communicate a technical vision that is easily understood by all levels of management.
Implements and maintains disaster recovery methodologies and create documentation that follows industry best practices.
Proactively identifies and implements Continuous Improvement initiatives.
Works closely and escalates issues directly with vendors to ensure that supporting operating systems are compliant with applications, including required patch levels, hot fixes, and revisions.
You Must Have
7+ years of systems administration experience, of which a minimum of 3 operating at a senior level in a larger scale or enterprise environment.
Bachelors degree.
Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
Ability to work remote, hybrid, or on-site as directed by management and is determined by the needs of the business.
Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this job.
United States Citizenship.
Ability to obtain and maintain, if required for position, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance (some positions require additional DOE designations).
We Value
Demonstrated experience with Cyber Security design requirements, including resolving complex security issues by developing and implementing innovative technical solutions.
Advanced knowledge of specific operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise), servers, peripheral devices and workstations.
Highly skilled in scripting, programming and/or automation tools (like Puppet, Python, Ansible) to support database, web, and application administration.
Knowledge and experienced with installation, configuration and administration of enterprise web services, application servers, databases, clustering, backup and recovery systems, portals, firewalls, virtual private networks, terminal services, authentication and authorization, collaboration, and load balancing.
Understanding of Big Data concepts and components (Hadoop ecosystem and/or the Cloudera Data Platform)
Demonstrated experience with databases (i.e., SQL, NoSQL, Hive, Cassandra, In Memory, MongoDB, HBase)
Effective communication skills to partner closely with citizen analysts and Data Scientists
Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Gitlab CI, Git, and Ansible.
Demonstrated expertise in Kubernetes orchestration across multiple platforms with handson experience designing, deploying, and operating container workloadson OpenShift, RedHat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), and Amazon EKS, including multicluster management, CI/CD integration, and automated scaling/monitoring.
Deep proficiency in endtoend RedHat OpenShift lifecycle management, architecting and maintaining both onpremises and cloudbased OpenShift environments, leveraging Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) and Advance Cluster Security (ACS) for unified policy enforcement, Quay for secure image registry, and associated tooling (operators, Service Mesh, GitOps) to ensure high availability, compliance, and continuous delivery.
Understanding of Artificial Intelligence including Machine Learning, AI pipelines, GPUs, and TensorFlow
Experience with working with Application Teams to establish processes for full lifecycle operations to include on-boarding, security compliance, and CI/CD pipelines.
Proven ability to mentor peers to better results and identify appropriate training to improve teams technical bench strength.
Ability to develop and communicate a technical vision that is easily understood by all levels of management
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This job description/job posting is not all inclusive and other duties may be assigned.
Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.
