Systems Administrator - Linux

Noblis•Atlantic City, NJ

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Voice Switch and Recorder (VS&R) Program Office manages seven different programs that provide critical voice communications and legal recording systems that perform critical, high availability Air Traffic Control (ATC) communications within the FAA’s National Airspace System (NAS). The VS&R Program Office is responsible for acquisition of modern Internet Protocol (IP) ATC Voice Communications Systems (VCSs), which includes development of requirements, procurement, verification, validation, testing, implementation and deployment. The VS&R Program Office also manages the full life cycle sustainment and logistics for the existing legacy ATC VCSs that are currently in use throughout the NAS. The Systems Administrator will provide hands-on support to the FAA Test and Evaluation Lead and Technical Team at the William J. Hughes Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace to help FAA achieve technical milestones for verification, validation, test and deployment of modern IP-VCSs and Air-to-Ground Protocol Converters (APCs). The Systems Administrator Engineer will plan, design, install, configure, and maintain laboratory IP networks and Linux systems, including virtual machine management and equipment monitoring using industry standard open-source software solutions/data/operating systems. The Systems Administrator will also perform software configuration management and maintain software issue tracking repositories. The Systems Administrator must understand the current and emerging client space and evaluate and apply practical and innovative concepts and methodologies to solve difficult problems.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information System Security, Software Engineering or similar discipline, plus 6-17 years of relevant hands-on experience.
Experience planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining laboratory Linux systems, including virtual machine management and equipment monitoring/ Network Management System (NMS) solutions, constructed with industry standard open-source software solutions, data, and operating systems (i.e., comfortable on the terminal, writing bash scripts, configuring packages and servers).
Understanding of operating system structure and configuration (e.g. directory structure, device files, network configuration).
Experience planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining laboratory IP networks consisting of multiple VLANs, subnets, domains (i.e., management plane, data plane), domain protection mechanisms (e.g., access control list enforcement), and constructed with enterprise grade network switches and routers.
Exposure to configuring managed routers and switches.
Exposure to Version Control (i.e. Git).
Strong software configuration management skills to ensure infrastructure configuration is reliably tracked and reproducible.
Understanding of systems development lifecycles.
Understanding of Information System Security practices and methodologies.
Ability to work independently, collaboratively, and under consultative direction with cross-functional teams comprised of FAA staff, vendors and contractor teams in a dynamic environment.
Ability to work remotely and onsite at the William J. Hughes Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace in New Jersey.
U.S Citizen or Green Card Permanent Resident (3+ years U.S. Residency).
Ability to obtain FAA Public Trust.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Knowledge of the FAA National Airspace System (NAS).
Experience using automation tools such as Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, etc.
Experience with system requirements and design.
Experience managing and coordinating test lab configuration activities.
Experience with simulation environments, testbeds, or real-time data feeds for ATC systems.
Ability to collect and analyze data, and communicate technical information.
Experience with Codebeamer, a collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool used for testing.
Strong, clear verbal and written communication skills.
Willingness to stay updated on industry trends and technologies.

Responsibilities

Plan, design, install, configure, and maintain laboratory IP networks and Linux systems, including virtual machine management and equipment monitoring using industry standard open-source software solutions/data/operating systems.
Perform software configuration management and maintain software issue tracking repositories.
Understand the current and emerging client space and evaluate and apply practical and innovative concepts and methodologies to solve difficult problems.
Prepare briefings to communicate and validate platform/Infrastructure features.
Manage multiple tasks and adapt to evolving technical requirements.
Participate in on-call rotation and after-hours support as needed.