System Maintenance Technician II (Linux/Unix)
TISTA Science and Technology Corporation · Austin, TX, US
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About the Role
TISTA Science and Technology is seeking a System Maintenance Technician II to join our growing team. At TISTA, you’ll do meaningful, mission-driven work that improves lives alongside teammates you trust and leaders who are transparent and supportive. We invest in your learning and internal mobility so you can build a career that keeps advancing. We’re proud to serve and hire Veterans, and we put people first in everything we do.
Responsibilities
- Interpreting infrastructure alerts, system-health conditions, and performance anomalies using SolarWinds, ScienceLogic, Splunk, SNMP, or equivalent monitoring tools.
- Performing rack-and-stack activities, power and cabling work, physical inspections, equipment handling, and controlled data-center operations.
- Replacing memory, CPUs, disk drives, motherboards, expansion cards, and power supplies, followed by successful server restart and health validation.
- Checking filesystem capacity, identifying large/old/duplicate files, calculating directory sizes, and performing other maintenance diagnostics.
- Utilizing monitoring and maintenance tools including BigFix, SNMP, GitHub, SolarWinds, Splunk, QRadar, EnCase, ScienceLogic, Puppet, IPMI, iLO, and iDRAC.
- Scheduling routine maintenance without disrupting workflow, recognizing emergent maintenance needs, selecting appropriate responses, and maintaining accurate logs.
- Coordinating field-engineer visits, validating systems after warranty maintenance, and updating associated tickets.
Requirements
- RAID and enterprise storage knowledge for disk health monitoring, RAID troubleshooting, disk replacement, SMART status validation, and storage integrity.
- Red Hat Satellite knowledge for Linux infrastructure inventory, patch-level verification, and system lifecycle support.
- BigFix knowledge for patch-status validation, endpoint compliance, and infrastructure maintenance activities.
- Ansible and Puppet familiarity for configuration-management awareness, automation support, and validation of server-management agents.
- ServiceNow and CMDB knowledge for incident, maintenance, asset, configuration, and work-record documentation.
- CompTIA Server+ certification for enterprise server hardware installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, storage, and lifecycle support.
- CompTIA A+ certification for foundational hardware diagnostics, component replacement, peripheral support, and troubleshooting.
- CompTIA Linux+ or equivalent Linux administration training for Linux command-line maintenance, filesystem analysis, storage utilization, and basic OS troubleshooting.
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or Red Hat Linux administration training for RHEL system maintenance, storage, filesystems, services, and troubleshooting.
- Oracle Solaris Administration training or certification for Solaris server maintenance, zpools, and Unix infrastructure support.
- Dell, HPE, Oracle, or equivalent enterprise server hardware training for hardware diagnostics, firmware maintenance, component replacement, and vendor-specific server management.
- iDRAC, iLO, IPMI, or equivalent out-of-band management training for remote hardware monitoring, diagnostics, power management, and recovery.
- Ability to pass a Tier 2/Moderate Background Investigation.
Skills
- SolarWinds
- ScienceLogic
- Splunk
- SNMP
- BigFix
- GitHub
- QRadar
- EnCase
- Puppet
- IPMI
- iLO
- iDRAC
- Linux
- Unix
- RAID
- Ansible
- ServiceNow
- CMDB
- CompTIA Server+
- CompTIA A+
- CompTIA Linux+
- RHCSA
- Oracle Solaris Administration
- Dell
- HPE
- Oracle
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- On-site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of work experience
- 7 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
Education Level
- AA or two year technical school degree
Benefits
- Above Industry Healthcare Benefits
- Remote Working Options
- Paid Time Off
- Training/Certification opportunities
- Healthcare Savings Account & Flexible Savings Account
- Paid Life Insurance
- Short-term & Long-term Disability
- 401K Match
- Professional development reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Holidays
- Military Leave
About the Company
- TISTA Science and Technology is seeking a System Maintenance Technician II to join our growing team.
- At TISTA, you’ll do meaningful, mission-driven work that improves lives alongside teammates you trust and leaders who are transparent and supportive.
- We invest in your learning and internal mobility so you can build a career that keeps advancing.
- We’re proud to serve and hire Veterans, and we put people first in everything we do.