Hardware Systems Administrator

Booz Allen Hamilton•Chantilly, VA

About The Position

The Hardware Systems Administrator role focuses on improving the technology that supports the Mission Partner. This position requires a system administrator with deep expertise in Linux systems, container orchestration using tools like Kubernetes, and automation with tools like Ansible. The ideal candidate will effectively bridge the gap between complex technical execution and client-facing communication. Responsibilities include managing and optimizing infrastructure, ensuring the architecture, security, and performance of systems and containerized environments. The role involves providing customers with insights into their network through monitoring and performance management, identifying problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network, and translating metrics into understandable information. This is an opportunity to expand skill sets into automation logic, cluster management, workload management, and CI/CD integration. The team emphasizes growth, encouraging the sharing of expertise through leadership and mentoring, and helping the team develop new methodologies. As a system administration leader, the individual will identify new opportunities to modernize the network to help clients achieve their goals. The role contributes to resolving daily challenges, improving clients' network infrastructure, and bringing additional capabilities to the warfighter.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in Linux administration
Experience with automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform
Experience with containers such as Docker, Kubernetes, or Podman
Experience deploying bare-metal servers or blades and external storage SAN devices, and installing bare-metal hypervisor operating systems
Experience installing, configuring, and managing networking equipment such as switches, routers, and firewalls
Experience with SELinux and FA policy d, STIG hardening, Identity Management ( IdM), LDAP, and managing secrets and certificates
Ability to translate complex technical requirements into solutions for clients and engineers
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
Bachelor’s degree
Ability to obtain a DoD 8140 certification, such as Security+, CASP, CISSP, CCSP, CCNA, or GCSA, within 6 months of start date

Nice To Haves

Experience in administration of RHEL
Experience deploying and managing production Kubernetes clusters such as OpenShift, EKS, or RKE
Experience with Helm charts, Kustomize, and managing persistent container storage interface ( CSI ) and container networking interface ( CNI )
Experience integrating IaC and Ansible into pipelines such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions
Knowledge of IP tables and NFTables, DNS, load balancing, HAProxy, Nginx, and namespace
Ability to use troubleshooting tools such as ss, netstat, tcpdump, t race route, and ping to isolate network problems
Ability to conduct performance tuning, kernel patching, and debugging as well as optimizing Linux kernels for container workloads such as tweaking sysctl for K8s
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a STEM field
Red Hat Certified Engineer ( RHCE ) or Linux Foundation Certified Engineer ( LFCE ) Certification

Responsibilities

Manage and optimize infrastructure.
Be responsible for the architecture, security, and performance of systems and containerized environments.
Provide customers insight into their network through monitoring and performance management.
Identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network.
Turn metrics into information and explain their meaning.
Broaden skill set into areas like automation logic, cluster management, workload management, and CI / CD integration.
Share expertise through leadership and mentoring.
Help the team work through challenges and develop new methodologies.
Identify new opportunities to modernize the network so clients achieve their goals.
Resolve daily challenges as we improve our clients' network infrastructure and bring additional capabilities to the warfighter.