Unix System Administrator (TS)

TechOpps • Alexandria, VA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Production Support Team Unix System Administrator / Systems Engineer Location: Alexandria, VA Clearance: Top Secret Position Overview: The successful candidate will participate in a team environment supporting a U.S. Government contract that provides personnel security management to DOD. The position involves the development, test, and production support of a web application with a Sybase database. The candidate will need strong analytical skills, strong communication skills, and extensive experience in UNIX. Exposure and experience working with various middleware products is preferred. Essential Function: The candidate will be involved in the day-to-day support of a UNIX Solaris operating system development environment for a web application with a Sybase database. Additionally, occasional evening and weekend support for production deployments is required. Strong analytical skills and experience with the ability to communicate is a must. Strong understanding of UNIX, Shell scripting, and relational databases is needed. Must be able to work in a team environment and independently with minimum management oversight. Must possess high energy and strong motivation to make a difference. The work is fast paced and with changing priorities. Task switching without loss of productivity is a must.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship
• Current DoD Top Secret clearance (based on SSBI investigation)
• Security+ certification is required, or must be obtained within 3 months
• 2 - 3 years hands-on experience with the UNIX operating system as a Systems Administrator; preference is that the experience be with Solaris but any Unix OS experience is acceptable. Experience must include system startup/shutdown, backups, vulnerability management, and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) product upgrading/loading/troubleshooting.
• Ability to assist with developing procedural and technical documentation
• Ability to follow project plans (system migrations and software release upgrade)
• Ability to work evening and weekend hours on a rotational basis for production deployments
• Experience in supporting software developers in development environments
• Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills
• Knowledge of UNIX and web-related security postures, skills and best-practices
• Must be able to effectively articulate complex, technical concepts to on-site clients, non-technical management and co-contractors
• Must demonstrate a strong sense of self-motivation and direction
• A team player
• Common office software skills (Word, Excel, Visio)
• Strong motivation to make a difference

Nice To Haves

• UNIX System Administrator certification is preferred
• Experience working with middleware products such as Tomcat, Apache, Redhat JBoss-EAP, and Java is preferred
• Understanding of application development lifecycle processes is a plus
• Familiarity with Department of Defense personnel security issues is a plus

Responsibilities

• day-to-day support of a UNIX Solaris operating system development environment for a web application with a Sybase database
• occasional evening and weekend support for production deployments

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed