Linux Systems Administrator

TEKsystems•Malvern, AR

20h•$50 - $55•Remote

About The Position

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: • Gather customer requirements and complete new server builds per operational procedures. • Perform server decommissions per operational procedures. • Perform day-to-day operational maintenance, customer support, and program compliance. • Execute yum/dnf installation and updates of Red Hat packages. • Remediation of IAVM and ACAS vulnerability reports. • Understand and audit DISA STIG checklists, including usage of automated SCAP scans. • Execute Ansible automation content to audit and remediate compliance. • Define technical details within milestones for Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&Ms). • Effectively communicate with customer and implement resolution for operational compliance. • Assess, suggest, and implement system performance improvements. • Modify and establish storage allocation, including NFS. • Understand, troubleshoot, and improve functionality within SELinux, AIDE, fapolicyd, firewalld, Red Hat Identity Management (RHIdM), Red Hat Satellite, and Trellix products. • Conduct root cause analysis and articulate to customer. • Assist customers with migrating functionality to new servers with latest RHEL OS. • Participate in on-call rotation to support outages and occasional after-hours maintenance. • Create and improve documented Standard Operation Procedures.

Requirements

9+ years of experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems administration, matching skills identified within Primary Responsibilities.
BA/BS with 9+ years IT experience, MA/MS with 5+ years IT experience; other relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
Must be able to obtain and maintain Secret clearance prior to start date
CompTIA Security+ CE (or other IAT-II equivalent IAW 8750 requirements)
Linux environmental certificate (i.e. Linux+, RHCSA, or similar)
secret clearance
security clearance
security+
sec+
Rhel
rhel 7
rhel 6
rhel 8
rhel 9
gitlab
Linux
System administrator
Red hat
Storage
Systems engineering
Active directory
Troubleshooting
Scripting

Responsibilities

Gather customer requirements and complete new server builds per operational procedures.
Perform server decommissions per operational procedures.
Perform day-to-day operational maintenance, customer support, and program compliance.
Execute yum/dnf installation and updates of Red Hat packages.
Remediation of IAVM and ACAS vulnerability reports.
Understand and audit DISA STIG checklists, including usage of automated SCAP scans.
Execute Ansible automation content to audit and remediate compliance.
Define technical details within milestones for Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&Ms).
Effectively communicate with customer and implement resolution for operational compliance.
Assess, suggest, and implement system performance improvements.
Modify and establish storage allocation, including NFS.
Understand, troubleshoot, and improve functionality within SELinux, AIDE, fapolicyd, firewalld, Red Hat Identity Management (RHIdM), Red Hat Satellite, and Trellix products.
Conduct root cause analysis and articulate to customer.
Assist customers with migrating functionality to new servers with latest RHEL OS.
Participate in on-call rotation to support outages and occasional after-hours maintenance.
Create and improve documented Standard Operation Procedures.