Sr Systems Administrator (LINUX/WINDOWS/VMWARE/AWS/AZURE)
Sr. Systems Administrator to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
Responsibilities Include:
Working alone on individual projects while being involved in larger projects as a team effort with minimal supervision from the lead systems engineer
Leading a team in the design and implementation of COTS-based solutions on single instances or across clustered devices
Supporting the development of system security documentation on both new and deployed solutions
Supporting the development of new capabilities
Supporting the operations and maintenance aspects of deployed capabilities
Required Skills:
Must be a US Citizen
Active Secret clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
6+ years of directly relevant systems administration experience including hands-on experience with one or more of the following: Linux preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 or 7, Windows, VMware
Must have in-depth knowledge of OS installations, security hardening and maintenance
Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform capabilities, including good understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Framework
Experience working in AWS via the CLI and management console
Experience with Microsoft’s Azure cloud services
Knowledge and experience configuring Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)
Comfortable with building physical and virtual servers from scratch
Ability to deploy and integrate new applications that may be requested
Capable of quickly learning new applications that run on various operating systems for testing and deployment
Experience with administration and management of servers to include installation, configuration, optimization, backup & recovery
Experience with performance tuning & troubleshooting, identifying and resolving contention in CPU, memory, networking, disk I/O, etc.
Familiar with fundamentals of scripting languages for automation tasks and deployments (e.g. Bash Shell, Python & Kickstart technologies)
Integration & implementation experience with various services, LDAP, Samba, NFS, Bind, Apache, and other core technologies
Familiarity of configuration management
Experience with Puppet, Chef or Ansible
Desired Skills:
Experience working in an agile development environment
Experience with software development using JAVA, RESTful services is a plus
Comfortable with multilevel security systems, SELinux, and/or Cross Domain Solutions is a plus
Experience with physical and virtual (VMware) RHEL servers including Red Hat Satellite Servers
Experience with data orchestration software such as Apache NiFi or StreamSets is a plus
Experience with distributed compute environments such as Hadoop is a plus
Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments
Experience with technical implementation projects
Required Education:
Desired Certifications:
DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
AWS certification (cloud, etc.)