Senior Linux System Admin - Marshal Flight Ce

ALTECH SOLUTIONS, LLC•Huntsville, AL

21h•$120,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Altech Solutions is hiring a Senior Linux Systems Administrator to support NASA enterprise IT and aerospace infrastructure at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This is a hands-on senior role for someone who has spent a career keeping mission-critical Linux and virtualized environments running — and wants that work to matter. You will own the health of the servers and systems behind NASA operational environments: designing the environment and software layers for reliability, scalability, security, and high availability across Linux, Windows, and virtual infrastructure. You will lead application deployment and patch efforts, define system test procedures, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with database administrators, network engineers, application teams, and NASA customers.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field
12 years of professional systems engineering, application deployment, or IT infrastructure experience
Strong hands-on Linux/UNIX administration, including command-line environment tracking
Windows Server administration experience
VMware or OpenShift virtualization experience
U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance or higher
Residence within 50 miles of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL

Nice To Haves

Active Public Trust clearance
Active industry certifications — Red Hat (RHCSA/RHCE), CompTIA Security+, Cisco CCNA/CCNP
Direct experience supporting government, aerospace, or real-time NASA mission-critical environments
Storage array experience — Nexsan, Dell Unity
iDRAC / IPMI out-of-band management experience
Strong RHEL foundation paired with solid Windows fundamentals
Ability to write and maintain Python programs or shell scripts in a UNIX environment for automation and data migration between systems
Knowledge of Cisco Software Defined Networking technologies
Familiarity with DevSecOps pipelines, automated infrastructure tooling, and Agile frameworks

Responsibilities

Run day-to-day operation and ongoing support of servers and systems, including event, fault, and performance management.
Install, monitor, and troubleshoot operating systems, hardware, and infrastructure.
Design environment and software layers for reliable, scalable, secure, highly available Linux, Windows, and virtual environments.
Lead application teams responsible for continuous software enhancements, patch management, and deployments across development environments.
Partner with systems administrators, database and application administrators, network engineers, customers, and outside vendors to engineer solutions and resolve problems.
Define system test procedures and task success criteria; maintain technical architecture diagrams, system build documentation, and application update records.
Direct overall system-level testing.
Find weaknesses in the environment and apply structured problem-solving methodology to close them before they become outages.