Systems Administrator / SysOps Positions Available at Junior and Senior Volunteer Levels in Spokane Area for Local HQ of International Non-Profit
An exceptional opportunity for Spokane locals to get diverse experience in a broad range of hands-on Systems Administrator experience across Small-to-Medium Business (SMB) and Enterprise-class infrastructure, hardware, software, and cloud technologies. Multiple positions open for both junior and more senior positions. You will work directly with, and receive training from, the Information Technology (IT) Director, and in some instances the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with more than 40 years of IT experience, and a history of mentoring many up and coming aspiring tech workers into exceptional technology career trajectories.
A Junior level administrator should have familiarity with the below technologies, and the tasks involved in using them, either with professional experience or self-taught skills, senior staff will help with training to fill in any gaps.
A Senior level administrator needs to meet or exceed these points with multiple years of relevant experience, and you will have opportunities to grow your existing skillset and technology stack experience far beyond where you are now.
As with all positions at RPG Research, these are unpaid Volunteer positions with no financial compensation.
Internships (also unpaid) may be available to qualified applicants, depending on arrangements with you educational institution.
Skills and Job Duties:
- Understanding of computer and hardware:
- Basic distinctions between RAM, CPU, disk, etc.
- Able to rack and mount network devices and servers in a server rack
- Flash firmware on network devices
- Setup and troubleshoot laptop and desktop hardware
- Navigating and accomplishing simple to complicated tasks in a Linux command line:
- Copying, editing, and moving configuration files
- Restarting services, applying service and application changes, installing and updating software packages
- Provisioning LVM, creating filesystems, managing permissions
- Reviewing logs and troubleshooting application issues
- Understanding of virtualization technology and Networking (i.e. Xen Orchestra, ProxMox, VMWare, etc.)
- How to create and move virtualized hosts
- VLANs, basics of subnetting, basics of firewalling, NAT'ing and port-forwarding
- Understanding of infrastructure automation and monitoring:
- Basic shell scripting abilities (i.e. BASH, etc.)
- Configuration management tools for managing patching, application installs and configurations, and OS level configurations (i.e. Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack, etc.)
- Monitoring systems (i.e. Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, etc.)
- Log collections, querying, monitoring, and alerting (i.e. LogInsight, Loki, Graylog, ElasticSearch, etc.)
Applicants at all levels must:
- Pass a criminal background check
- Be honest! Mistakes are expected, and you are not expected to be able to handle all assigned tasks or be available at all times. Be willing to communicate any and all issues.
- Have a willingness to learn and try new things.
Job Types:
- Volunteer, Part-time, Temporary, Internship, unpaid.
- Salary: $0 USD
