Full-Time
Linux System Administrator 2
Darkstar Intelligence
Compensation Overview
$155k - $255k/yr
No H1B Sponsorship
Annapolis Junction, MD, USA
In Person
US Top Secret Clearance Required
Bachelor's
Category
 Software Engineering (1) |
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Required Skills
Bash
Puppet
Microsoft Windows
Operating Systems
Perl
VMWare
Linux/Unix
Requirements
- An active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance with polygraph is required.
- A minimum of ten years of experience as a Systems Administrator supporting programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
- A bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required; an additional five years of Systems Administration experience may substitute for the degree.
- A minimum of five years of experience designing, planning, installing, configuring, and sustaining Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments is required.
- Extensive experience using UNIX/Linux command-line operations in production environments is required.
- Experience with NiFi is required.
- Experience installing and managing software via YUM repositories, RPM packages, tarballs, and source code is required.
- Experience researching, acquiring, and applying Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts patches in secure environments is required.
- A minimum of five years of experience developing automation scripts for system configuration, backup, and restoration using scripting languages such as Bash and Perl is required.
- Experience performing Puppet system administration and configuration management is required.
- A minimum of five years of experience with VMware architecture, installation, and configuration is required.
- Experience supporting VMware operational capabilities, including vMotion-enabled failover, template library management, and system monitoring, is required.
- Three years of experience implementing operating-system-level clustering solutions is required.
Responsibilities
- Provide support for the implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of Information Technology systems.
- Provide Tier 1 help-desk problem identification, diagnosis, and resolution.
- Manage the daily activities of Information Technology system configuration and operation.
- Assist users in accessing and using Information Technology systems.
- Provide Tier 1 help-desk and Tier 2 escalation problem identification, diagnosis, and resolution.
- Support day-to-day operations, monitoring, and problem resolution for client/server environments, storage systems, network devices, mobile devices, and related technologies.
- Support escalation and communicate system status to agency management and internal customers.
- Optimize system operations and resource utilization, and perform system capacity analysis and planning.
- Troubleshoot Information Technology systems in depth.
- Provide detailed analysis and feedback to agency management and internal customers for escalated tickets.
- Support the dispatch system and hardware troubleshooting, remaining involved in the resolution process.
- Configure and manage UNIX and Windows operating systems; install and load operating-system software; troubleshoot and maintain system integrity; configure network components; and implement operating-system enhancements to improve reliability and performance.