This is probably on either the PTC project or the mainframe migration.
KC Southern was notorious for severe bureaucracy and departmental
politics. I haven't known anybody who has worked with CPKC.
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Subject: CPKC - Sr Linux Administrator opening (6 month contract to
hire, $50-54.65/hr)
Date: 2025-05-16 10:34
From: "Fellers, Brian" <bfellers(a)teksystems.com>
To: "Fellers, Brian" <bfellers(a)teksystems.com>
Hello,
Below is the job description for the Sr Linux Administrator opening we
have with CPKC (Canadian Pacific Kansas City Southern Railway). 6 month
contract to hire and will work 100% onsite at the downtown CPKC
location. Please let me know if you know anyone who might be interested
in this opening.
100% On site Kansas City MO
for a Mid/Sr Level Linux Admin. Below are the details. There are
multiple vendors so I would get it to your network asap.
This is a 100% on site at their downtown location.
Address [1]: 114 West 11th Street, Kansas City, MO
6 month contract to hire
Pay Rate: $50-54.65/hr
KEY: Middle to Senior Linux Administrator with VMware and/or Nutanix
Hypervisor knowledge and experience.
Linux (SUSE, RHEL, CentOS, BSD)
VMware
Ansible is a plus
Linux based security would be a plus as well
Overview
- Individuals are responsible for Linux operational support,
troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades and expansion, on-call rotation.
In addition, they will provide support to provisioning/operational
staff, as well as work closely with the architecture group in design
support and validation of new designs and installations. This position
will lead the containerization effort for Datacenter services.
- Provide direction and advice pertaining to capacity planning
- Provide direction and advice pertaining to future installations and
design
- Provide direction to automate and orchestrate future use of Linux
environments (Tanium, Orchestrator, automation suites)
- Configuration management utilizing Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef,
Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Knowledge and use of containerization platforms (Docker, OpenShift)
- Scripting languages (PowerShell, bash, python)
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Knowledge in the following preferred:
- Virtualization Technologies using VMware/Nutanix/Hyper V (MS suite)
- Provide direction and advice pertaining to design and configuration of
converged infrastructure
- Cluster experience (SLES, RH would be good)
- Vcenter or Nutanix tools
- Storage Technologies using Dell/EMC and Netapp
- Dell/EMC and Netapp replication technologies
- Protocols including CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC
- Cisco Networking Products
- Networking technologies including, but not limited to TCP/IP, DNS,
Routing Protocols, Switching
- Cisco UCS Servers
- VMWare Hypervisor as well as some UCS bare-metal)
- Strong Communications Skills, both verbal and written
- Demonstrated experience documenting environments, runbooks, etc.
- Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service
(PaaS), and automation technologies
- Infrastructure as Code platforms: Terraform, Packer, Azure Resource
Manager/CloudFormation templates
- Enterprise service bus platforms
- Ability to work independently to achieve goals
- Ability to work as part of a strong technical delivery team to deliver
computing needs
Skills:
-10 to 15 years Infrastructure experience
Best regards,
Brian Fellers | Lead Professional Recruiter
T 913.982.4972 | M 785.250.7060 | bfellers(a)TEKsystems.com
800.318.2074 | F 913.982.5053
7421 W 129th St, Suite #300, Overland Park, KS 66213
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Jonathan
