Jr Linux Admin

Junior Linux Admin

Contract-to-hire opportunity: 3-6 months

CheckAlt, a leading provider of integrated receivables and deposit imaging solutions for hundreds of financial institutions and businesses across the U.S., is hiring.

The Role

The Junior Linux Admin is responsible for troubleshooting, maintaining, and implementing solutions to optimize the infrastructure operations primarily but not limited to AWS. Analyze and identifies all or part of the company’s existing servers and network. Responsibilities will include assisting Sr. Engineer’s design, implement, code, test, document, and maintains systems integration solutions.

What you'll do:

• Provide system administration, operational support and problem resolution for a Linux computing environment on both cloud and on-prem virtual platform.
• Create and Patch AMIs, perform pull requests, write Automation code.
• Perform Linux administration including changes, server management, implementation, backups, etc.
• Use your infrastructure and networking knowledge to maintain cloud based infrastructure predominantly on AWS involving EC2, S3, RDS & VPC.
• Use configuration management tools (primarily Ansible and Terraform) to build and maintain a hybrid infrastructure hosted both at colocation facilities and in the public cloud.
• Work directly with the Sr. Engineers & development team to build supporting infrastructure for specific application functionality.
• Run proof of concept projects on early stage infrastructure improvements to validate the feasibility of an approach, evaluate performance, and spike an implementation.
• Review, maintain and evaluate virtual server performance and capacity.

The talents you'll bring:

• Minimum 5-year experience with Linux System Administration
• Minimum 2-year experience with AWS
• Experience with Linux Servers CentOS 6+, RedHat, Amazon LINUX a plus
• Experience with VMware ESXi 6+, vCenter 6+
• Experience with deployment and managing AWS WebServices
• Experience with developer tools including Github, Jira
• Experience using automation and management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, docker
• Understanding of Active Directory
• Understand basic networking concepts
• Windows server administration a plus
• Java, Wildfly & PostgreSQL knowledge a major plus

Characteristics you’ll have:

• Results-oriented with the self-motivation and drive to enable client success.
• Ability to wear multiple hats and pivot strategies and execution in a timely manner.
• Motivation to continuously improve results.
• A personal and business value of treating others with honesty and respect.

CheckAlt is the largest independent provider of treasury and receivables management solutions in the country. Our client base includes hundreds of financial institutions, including top tier banks, regional and local banks and credit unions.

CheckAlt assists financial institutions in more efficiently processing their deposit items from all capture points within the bank, credit union or at their clients. We enable banks to attract and retain business customers with innovative white label payment solutions. Additionally, we offer easy-to-integrate APIs for mobile and web developers that want to accept Check 21 payments.

We offer our eligible employees benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability and 401K.

CheckAlt is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.