Linux System Administrator

Altamira Technologies Corp.•McLean, VA

23h•$150,000 - $215,000•Onsite

About The Position

Altamira Technologies has a long and successful history providing innovative solutions throughout the U.S. National Security community. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Altamira serves the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities worldwide by focusing on creating innovative solutions leveraging common standards in architecture, data and security. Altamira believes that our people and the culture of our company differentiate us from other companies. We focus on recruiting talented, self-motivated employees that strive to find a way to get things done. Join our team of experts as we engineer national security! Candidates will work in a Linux environment for a Cross Domain Solution (CDS), contributing to its sustainment and evolution. This position requires the application of expertise on multiple complex scripting, development, and work-around assignments that may be broad in nature and require originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks. Qualified candidates will have appreciable latitude in developing methodology, presenting solutions to problems, and contributing to deliverables.

Requirements

Linux system administration experience
System virtualization experience
User account management experience
Application update repository maintenance experience
Experience in the creation and management of Ansible playbooks for the automation of tasks
Maintenance and usage of Git repositories, and version control
Eagerness to learn and contribute to the overall enhancement of the existing tasks for the maintenance of the system and support applications
Red Hat Linux 7/8/9
Ansible
Git version control
Docker
Python and Bash scripting
Experience with virtualization technologies such VMWare ESXi and ProxMox
TS/SCI with CI Poly Needed
Active monitoring and sustaining the operations of geographically distributed Linux-based applications to meet service-level agreements
Incident response management for the CDS solutions
Interface with federal personnel to communicate SLA metrics and remediation of incidents
Scripting and possible software development to automate Operations and Maintenance
Potential development of sensors to accelerate the detection of failed systems
Development of documentation for operations, sustainment, and user guides

Responsibilities

Provide system administration, configuration, and support tools to maintain and monitor the health of a large data transfer and message processing infrastructure.
Administer and enhance a data metrics collection and dashboarding system for simplified operator supervision of system performance.
Assist with SNMP monitoring and data metrics collection in a diverse architecture.
Conduct system virtualization, user account management, and application update repository maintenance.
Create and manage Ansible playbooks for task automation.
Maintain and use Git repositories and version control.
Actively monitor and sustain the operations of geographically distributed Linux-based applications to meet service-level agreements.
Perform patching, troubleshooting, debugging, and creation of workaround solutions.
Manage incidents for the CDS solutions.
Interface with federal personnel to communicate SLA metrics and remediation of incidents.
Develop scripts and potentially software to automate Operations and Maintenance.
Develop sensors to accelerate the detection of failed systems.
Develop documentation for operations, sustainment, and user guides.