Cross Domain Solution Support Linux Engineer, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton • Stennis Space Center, MS

2d • $77,500 - $176,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Opportunity: Your combination of people skills and system administrator knowledge makes you the team hero, solving one problem after another. What if you could use those skills to improve the technology supporting DoW mission systems? We’re looking for a system administrator with experience managing Linux systems to help us maintain critical infrastructure used to generate and maintain environmental intelligence and data supporting fleet safety. As a system administrator on our team, you’ll help ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Navy meteorological and oceanographic data through the maintenance, cyber hardening, and configuration of critical IT systems, in particular to include cross-domain solutions (CDS). You’ll help clients overcome tough challenges through monitoring and performance management. Your knowledge will be vital as you identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network. Your communication skills will come in handy as you turn metrics into information and articulate their meaning. This is an opportunity to gain experience in managing IT infrastructure supporting the transfer of petabytes of data used for high-performance computing. We focus on growing as a team, so we’ll share techniques, work through challenges, and develop new methodologies together. Work with us and resolve daily challenges as we improve the safety and effectiveness of DoW missions. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience administering Red Hat Linux Systems in a moderate-to-large enterprise data center setting
• 3+ years of experience conducting cybersecurity hardening and system maintenance in accord with Federal or DoW RMF cybersecurity accreditation and authorization requirements
• Experience supporting IT systems in a classified environment
• Knowledge of Apache NiFi, its software components, and configuration
• Top Secret clearance
• HS diploma or GED
• Systems administration certification such as COMPTIA Security+ CE

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing and on-premise configuring cross-domain solution (CDS) hardware and software
• Experience with Everfox High-Speed Guard (HGS) and Everfox Trusted Gateway Solutions (TGS) systems
• TS/SCI clearance

Responsibilities

• Maintain critical infrastructure used to generate and maintain environmental intelligence and data supporting fleet safety.
• Ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Navy meteorological and oceanographic data through the maintenance, cyber hardening, and configuration of critical IT systems, in particular to include cross-domain solutions (CDS).
• Help clients overcome tough challenges through monitoring and performance management.
• Identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network.
• Turn metrics into information and articulate their meaning.
• Gain experience in managing IT infrastructure supporting the transfer of petabytes of data used for high-performance computing.
• Share techniques, work through challenges, and develop new methodologies together.
• Resolve daily challenges as we improve the safety and effectiveness of DoW missions.

Benefits

• health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• paid leave
• professional development
• tuition assistance
• work-life programs
• dependent care
• recognition awards program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: High school or GED