Linux Administrator - The Custom Group of Companies

Linux Administrator
Herndon, VA
AMAZING BENEFITS (including 100% employer paid healthcare benefits for employee)
Salary Depends on Experience up to $175k
Must hold an active Top Secret Security Clearance
Full time - Direct hire!

Job Highlights: Are you ready to dive into the world of cutting-edge technology and top-secret missions? As a Linux Administrator, you'll be the unsung hero supporting our intelligence community customers. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves quick reaction support, data wizardry, and tech sorcery. Join our elite team working to build and maintain software applications on a self-managed cloud infrastructure with a true big-data footprint.

Key Responsibilities:

• Client of Uptime: Monitor and swiftly act on any platform outages, whether hardware or software.
• Tech Whisperer: Engage with tenants and users of the Openstack Cloud Platform via chat services, assisting with their every need.
• Innovator: Upgrade and deploy applications, conduct R&D on new technologies & services within Openstack, and refine existing documentation for clarity and brilliance.

Clearance Requirements:

• Active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain SCI access and a willingness to obtain a CI Polygraph.
• US Citizenship required.

As a Linux Administrator, you will:

• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for complex operating systems, workstations, and servers.
• Coordinate, direct, and perform complex software installations, upgrades, and patching to operating systems and layered software packages.
• Troubleshoot complex issues between hardware and software components.
• Schedule installations and upgrades, maintaining them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures.
• Continually monitor and tune multiple systems to achieve optimum performance levels.
• Ensure workstation server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions of varying complexities.
• Plan and implement the modernization of servers.
• Implement and promote standard operating procedures and schedules.
• Conduct hardware and software audits of workstations and servers to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines.
• Provide infrastructure support for the Openstack environment.

Qualifications:

• Mastery of Linux administration: RedHat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, etc.
• Fluent in networking protocols: HAPROXY, DNS, HTTP(S), LDAP(S), SMTP, SNMP, SSSD, etc.
• Proficient in scripting languages: Shell, Python, Ansible, RegEx, etc.
• Skilled in storage solutions: Ceph Storage, SANs, etc.
• Experienced with cloud technologies (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS): Openstack, Azure, AWS, VMWare.
• Knowledgeable in containerization: Docker, LXC.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related field.
• 5+ years of related experience.

Additional Skills We'd Like to See:

• Experience with relational databases: MySQL, MariaDB, HadoopDB, etc.
• Relevant certifications: RHCT, RHCSA, A+, Network+, Security+, ITIL Foundations. #CJ#CG