Linux Systems Administrator II

Kansas City National Security Campus•Kansas City, MO

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Systems Administrator II performs multiple functions to ensure IT infrastructure is available, reliable, secure, and stable either individually or under the guidance of experienced personnel. This role will be responsible for monitoring systems and serving as a focal point for support. The Systems Administrator II will plan for the future by setting and documenting direction for their specific area of responsibility for the information systems infrastructure.

Requirements

2+ years of systems administration experience
Bachelor's degree in the field of Information Systems, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, with a minimum of 24 semester hours of computer-related courses, or two additional years of direct work experience
Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
Ability to work remote, hybrid, or on-site as directed by management and is determined by the needs of the business
Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this job
United States Citizenship
Ability to obtain and maintain, if required for position, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance (some positions require additional DOE designations)

Nice To Haves

Experience with (or willingness to learn) Trunked Radio Systems/P25 Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems, Cellular radio systems, or experience with amateur radio (HAM or Military Radio) equipment.
Experienced in the installation and management of containerization (OpenShift/Docker/Kubernetes).
Experienced in managing cloud-based solutions on AWS/Azure or other cloud platforms, including designing, deploying, monitoring, managing, and scaling resources.
Experienced with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines using tools such as IaC, Gitlab CI, Git, and Ansible.
Knowledge of specific operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Windows Server), servers, peripheral devices and workstations.
Skilled in scripting/programming languages (like PowerShell, Puppet, Perl, Python) to support database, web, and application administration.
Ability to mentor peers to better results and identify appropriate training to improve team’s technical bench strength.
Knowledge and experienced with installation, configuration and administration of enterprise web services, application servers, databases, clustering backup and recovery systems, portals, firewalls, virtual private networks, terminal services, authentication and authorization, collaboration, and load balancing.

Responsibilities

Evaluates, configures, and maintains systems including installing and testing new releases.
Monitors and evaluates operating efficiency, analyze performance and tuning.
Analyzes system problems to identify problem areas.
Mitigates application and operating system vulnerabilities to ensure security of information systems.
Follows established procedures required for efficient management of the infrastructure.
Maintains appropriate records including statistical reports, inventories, and technical documentation among others.
Installs new or enhanced applications and/or hardware; assist in the installation of servers.
Manages medium enterprise projects according to division standards and requirements.
Serves as a subject matter expert within one's area of responsibility regarding information systems infrastructure.
Has broad technical knowledge of information systems and recommends solutions based on current infrastructure components.