Linux Systems Administrator
About The Position
The Opportunity: Your combination of people skills and system administrator expertise makes you the team hero, solving one problem after another. What if you could use those skills to improve the technology supporting the Intelligence Community? We're looking for a system administrator who specializes in maintaining the security posture of a Linux computing environment for a team of 30 analysts and developers performing data science activities and developing forward-looking models to enhance strategic decisions about Information Technology performance and capacity. As a system administrator on our project, you'll manage user accounts, maintain the security posture of 3 environments and monitor the performance and health of the systems and data-processing applications. You'll provide your customers insight into their network through monitoring and performance management. Your system administrator expertise will be vital as you identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network. You'll help your team better understand the network by turning metrics into information and explaining their meaning. This is an opportunity to broaden your skillset into areas like Site Reliability Engineering and Cloud Computing. We focus on growing as a team, so you'll share your expertise through leadership and mentoring as you help the team work through challenges and develop new methodologies. As a system administrator leader, you'll identify new opportunities to modernize the network so your clients achieve their goals. Work with us and resolve daily challenges as we build models to improve the reliability and performance of some of the largest data warehouses and data processing platforms in the Intelligence Community. Join us. The world can't wait.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience with system administration for U.S. Government customers
- Experience with maintaining and administering virtual machines, including Windows and Linux
- Experience administering servers in AWS environments
- Experience with maintaining system compliance and accreditation
- Experience with setting up and configuring system monitoring tools such as Nagios, Splunk, or Elastic
- Experience with troubleshooting technical issues in custom software
- Experience coordinating larger-scale systems administration efforts across multiple technical teams or organizations
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
- HS diploma or GED
- Ability to obtain a IAT Level II certification within 180 days of start date
Nice To Haves
- Experience with system state management tools, such as Ansible for Linux and Desired State Configuration (DSC) for Windows
- Experience with source control tools, such as Git
- Experience with programming languages, such as Python
- Experience with system scripting languages, such as Bash and PowerShell
- Experience with writing technical documentation
- Experience with maintaining Elasticsearch or Elastic-stack products
- Experience identifying and resolving security advisories and applying vendor patches
- Ability to maintain software development infrastructure supporting three environments, including developing, testing, and producing in a fast-paced, highly technical environment
- IAT Level II certification preferred
Responsibilities
- manage user accounts
- maintain the security posture of 3 environments
- monitor the performance and health of the systems and data-processing applications
- provide your customers insight into their network through monitoring and performance management
- identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network
- help your team better understand the network by turning metrics into information and explaining their meaning
- share your expertise through leadership and mentoring as you help the team work through challenges and develop new methodologies
- identify new opportunities to modernize the network so your clients achieve their goals
- resolve daily challenges as we build models to improve the reliability and performance of some of the largest data warehouses and data processing platforms in the Intelligence Community
Benefits
- health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care
- recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
