Job Description
Job Description
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 deploymentsIAC (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 BashUnderstanding of RDS and SQL TechnologyAWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, Certification(s)Experience with IC Cloud Architecture implementation methodologies