Linux Support Engineer
Location: Springfield, IL or Chicago, IL • Type: Full Time (40 hours/week), W2 Salary
Compensation: Salary, Health, Dental, IRA Match, 4 Weeks PTO
Prerequisites
- Candidate must be a US Citizen
- Bachelor degree or Certification in IT or related field preferred
- Must pass a federal drug screening and background check
Skills
- Windows and Linux Server Administration
- Networking: VLANs, ACLs, DNS, routing, and security; CLI switch/router configuration
- PHP and MySQL: ability to inspect existing code and write SQL queries (support role)
- Virtualization: VMware and Hyper‑V
- Strong communication skills with customers; clear expectations and deliverables
Job Description
Support for our Dev team in finding and fixing rare issues that have made it to production.
We’ll train you on the code base before expecting work to be completed. Tasks include building tools to fix SQL records, writing bash scripts, and reviewing some PHP code.
Nagios Monitoring Engineer
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Location: Springfield, IL, Chicago, IL, or Remote Worker
Type: Project Based, Contract
Requirements
- Experience deploying and customizing Nagios XI for the Enterprise
- Experience with Nagios Log Server and Nagios Network Analyzer
- 3+ years of professional work experience
- Experience monitoring Windows Servers, VMware, and networking devices
- Experience with add-ons (Mod‑Gearman, NCPA, NS‑Client, etc.)
- SNMP v2 and v3
- Excellent communication skills to interact directly with customers professionally
- Coding experience is a plus (PHP)
- Bachelor’s degree
- Linux (CentOS 6‑8)
Typical Work
MCS is a featured partner for Nagios products and works with organizations all over the US—from Fortune 50 companies to smaller organizations.
Typical projects include installing Nagios according to best practices and adding servers, networking equipment, synthetic web transactions, databases, and other monitors to Nagios XI.
Training
Nearly all projects involve training and hand‑off sessions with customer IT staff.
Custom documentation and training collateral may need to be created—our goal is to leave customers with the tools and knowledge they need to take over day-to-day operations.
Nagios Full Suite
While Nagios XI is the most popular product we sell and deploy, we also use and deploy Nagios Log Server and Network Analyzer.
