Linux Administrator

Overview & Responsibilities:

This opening is for an experienced Linux System Administrator to work on cloud-based systems with a mission operations team. The team is involved in operations and sustainment of multiple operational cloud deployed solutions. A successful candidate will have experience with installation, configuration, administration, support and maintenance of cloud-based systems.

Primary responsibilities will involve taking a leadership role in system changes and improvements; working directly with government and contractor POCs to troubleshoot and responding to security reports; proactively monitor all operational systems and perform some of the more complex health checks; Deploy security patches and bug fixes to test and operational environments; update critical databases with new data; author and update operational and security documentation, including troubleshooting guides and SOPs.

Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred)
• DOD 8570 Certification (Security+ or equivalent or higher)
• Typically requires BS degree and 8 - 12 years of prior relevant experience or master’s with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies
• Advanced Linux administration experience with RHEL 7 or higher
• Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development and SW Sustainment Practices
• Proactive self-starter demonstrates a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work. Follow tasks to their logical conclusion and make sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail.
• Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context.

Preferred:

• Experience with ArcGIS/ESRI automation and deployments
• IAC (CloudFormation, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Anisible)
• Automation (Lambda, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, Git)
• Low-level Engineering (Git, Jira, Agile tools/methods)
• Containers (Docker, ECS, EKS, Fargate, AKS)
• PowerShell and Bash
• Understanding of RDS and SQL Technology
• AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, Certification(s)
• Experience with IC Cloud Architecture implementation methodologies