55740: Columbus, OH – IT – DPS – System Administrator 3/SA3

Job Classification:   System Administrator 3
Role:   System Administrator with Infrastructure Experience
ALPS Project:   Multiple Projects
MBE/Open Market: MBE
Cost $61.52 per hour X 2000 hrs in FY19 ($123,040.00)

Will close to submissions: Friday 8/31/2018 at 10:00am EST
Requirement Description:

The selected consultant will work on the Distributed Systems Support (server and storage infrastructure) team and also work closely with other IT technical staff to maintain existing systems; evaluate and recommend improvements to existing systems and Ohio Dept of Public Safety standards and processes; architect high availability solutions around new business and system requirements using existing and new technologies.

The SA3 will work under the direction of Information Technology Supervisors, Project Managers, and/or team lead Infrastructure Specialists. They will execute assignments and report status and issues as appropriate.

1. Document current state of infrastructure assignments.
2. Monitor project target dates and milestones to ensure work is on schedule. Take corrective actions if an assignment begins to slip its schedule.
3. Prepare status reports on a periodic basis for program team, team leads, group leads, and program manager and appropriate stakeholders.
4. Communicate and work with technical staff and others as necessary.
5. Analyze and distribute reports on program metrics associated with work items related to improving processing performance measures.
6. Perform knowledge transfer to DPS staff by documenting, mentoring, and/or teaching a small class on a specific topic.

Interview:
During the interview process with the ODPS staff, the resource consultant must demonstrate competence/experience in their specific area(s) of project assignment. The resource’s experience must also be documented for review and verification. Offered resources not showing technical or functional competence/experience will be sufficient reason to reject the Offeror’s proposal. It is the responsibility of the Offeror to pre-screen their candidates to ensure compliance. Resource will have a background check conducted by ODPS.

1. Strong communication/ leadership skills.
2. Strong influence, collaboration and negotiation experience.
3. Ability to collaborate with supporting resources across business and/or functional lines.
4. Have excellent oral and written skills/possess strong meeting and work session facilitation skills.
5. Have the ability to work independently and as part of a team, the ability to manage time and resources to meet assigned deadlines.
6. Have strong understanding of prioritization stemming from the elicitation of system and/or user requirements.
7. Have excellent organizational skills, proven analytical, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
8. Must be knowledgeable in the English language/speak clearly and understandably use the English language.
Mandatory Requirements/Time Required experience:

1. 5 years experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in enterprise environment
2. 3 years designing, building and maintaining scalable, highly-available, secure, n-tier application infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3. 5 years automation scripting (system build, administration, desired state configuration, inventory and application deployment)
4. 5 years experience with load balancing, firewalls, security practices, etc.

Preferred experience:

1. Red Hat Certified System Administrator
2. Red Hat Certified Architect
3. Scripting languages (BASH, PowerShell, Python, Perl)
4. Ansible/Red Hat Ansible Tower
5. Redis
6. Desired State Configuration
7. VMware vSphere

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