Senior UNIX System Engineer

Empower AI•Roanoke, VA

2d•Remote

About The Position

Empower AI is seeking a Senior UNIX System Engineer to support a mixed and growing environment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and Solaris UNIX systems. This role involves managing, maintaining, deploying, troubleshooting, and supporting servers across a mixed customer environment. The engineer will plan and implement new system hardware and software, and create and maintain team technical instructions, operating procedures, and policies. This is a remote-eligible position, with opportunities for on-site or hybrid work for local candidates in the Roanoke and Radford, Virginia area. The ideal candidate will possess strong hands-on UNIX/Linux systems engineering expertise, robust DoD cybersecurity compliance knowledge, and the ability to support mission-critical Army IT services in both enterprise data centers and cloud-hosted environments. Occasional travel to government facilities or data center locations may be required.

Requirements

CompTIA Security+
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is preferred; equivalent years of hands-on UNIX/Linux systems engineering experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Experience in Computer Science or IT.
Computing Environment (CE) Certification (e.g., RedHat) — may be waived for 30 days after project join date.
Active DoD Secret Security Clearance.
Five or more years' experience as a UNIX Systems Administrator or IT Engineer with experience automating assigned tasks.
Three or more years' experience in patch management, including applying security updates via YUM and RPM.
Three or more years' experience working in complex network environments, including VLANs and troubleshooting tools (ifconfig, netstat, ssh, telnet), and hardening systems using firewalld/iptables and hosts.
Three or more years' experience managing a large pool of local users via the command line.
Three or more years' experience creating, maintaining, and following Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable processes, disaster recovery, and common problem resolution.
Three or more years' experience configuring and maintaining key services such as DNS, SFTP, SMTP, and NTP.
Strong interpersonal skills and willingness to be a team player.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent years of experience.
Four or more years' experience with SELinux, including basic and advanced management and configuration.
Experience supporting Cybersecurity patch management and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG), Security Requirement Guides (SRG), RMF, SCA-V, and Cyber Operational Readiness Assessments (CORA).
Experience deploying large-scale hardware/software systems enhancements or upgrades across widely distributed geographic sites.
Experience with current and emerging network and infrastructure management technologies and business practices.

Responsibilities

Manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot, and support servers in a mixed Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Oracle Enterprise Linux/Solaris UNIX environment.
Plan, execute, and implement new system hardware and software.
Create and maintain team technical instructions, operating procedures, and policies.
Monitor and tune system performance; harden servers and report on overall security and operational status.
Recommend and implement enterprise improvements and manage new software/hardware integrations.
Produce utilization reports using existing tools to identify problems and corrective actions.
Support the lifecycle of a mixed vendor equipment environment in the datacenter, including firmware version control and periodic preventive maintenance.
Recommend, demonstrate, and implement technologies to expand, upgrade, and increase efficiency of the current environment.