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Northramp

Builds, modernizes, runs mission-critical gov systems

UNIX/Linux/Solaris Engineer - Hosting and Storage Services

System AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeReston, VA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required.
  • At least 5 years administering Oracle Solaris (Zones and Logical Domains) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux at scale, including operating system patching and change execution in regulated environments.
  • Hands-on experience with Alternate Boot Environment-based Solaris patching, rollback, vendor bundle planning, and adjusting to non-monthly patch cadences is required.
  • Practical experience with Puppet and Ansible for UNIX automation, including playbooks and modules, and strong shell scripting in bash and ksh are required.
  • Familiarity with VMware-hosted Linux operations and coordination with platform teams is required.
  • Experience with ScienceLogic SL1, Tenable, Tripwire, and Splunk; host-level firewall management; and security policy enforcement, including password lifecycles, is required.
  • Experience with ServiceNow, including Change Advisory Board processes, change templates, incidents, and root cause analysis, and on-call processes through xMatters is required.
  • The candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
  • The candidate must be eligible to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

  • Administer production Oracle Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, including Solaris Zones and Logical Domains, and Red Hat systems virtualized on VMware.
  • Manage Solaris operating system lifecycle, patching, and hardware, including Oracle platforms such as T-series where applicable.
  • Partner with the Windows and VMware team to administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems virtualized on VMware.
  • Execute Solaris patching with Alternate Boot Environments by building and patching environments, rebooting into them on standard cycles, and enabling rapid rollback when needed.
  • Adapt to Oracle's revised security-bundle cadence of approximately six weeks, account for potential interim bundles, and plan out-of-band updates when vulnerability severity requires them.
  • Maintain Red Hat patching through Puppet so customer-managed servers also receive monthly operating system updates.
  • Transition Solaris patch automation from Oracle Ops Center to Ansible or Puppet playbooks; write playbooks, modules, and operational runbooks for the new process.
  • Support the upgrade from Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 to 24 AI and maintain reliable monitoring and administration workflows during and after migration.
  • Configure and use ScienceLogic SL1 monitoring for operating system and hardware health, including CPU, memory, and filesystems, and notifications; coordinate platform configuration with the operations management group as needed.
  • Triage Tenable security alerts and follow-on Tripwire file-integrity and Splunk log-anomaly tickets; enforce host-level firewalls and raise network blocks when needed.
  • Implement account policies such as password-expiration changes across environments and validate changes in non-production before deployment.
  • Administer Solaris root access, operating systems, and hardware, and grant sudo access for customer application operations.
  • Support Red Hat managed servers where Northramp administers the operating system and customers manage applications, and customer-managed servers where customers hold root access; ensure operating system patching and provide consulting on request.
  • Use ServiceNow for change and incident management, follow Change Advisory Board approvals and standard change windows, and deliver post-incident root cause analyses where applicable.
  • Participate in xMatters on-call rotations with 15-minute acknowledgment and tiered escalation, and coordinate with the network operations center bridge during enterprise events such as DNS or network issues.
  • Maintain SharePoint-hosted standard operating procedures and runbooks, including screenshots, for patch orchestration, rollback, automation playbooks, the Oracle Enterprise Manager upgrade, SL1 alerting, and security and vulnerability remediation workflows.
  • Align documentation with weekly UNIX and security syncs and customer meetings.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience designing Ansible-first automation to replace legacy tools such as Oracle Ops Center for Solaris patch management, and integrating automation outputs with ServiceNow tasks and approvals.
  • Experience upgrading Oracle Enterprise Manager and validating monitoring and administration workflows during cutover.
  • Familiarity with Center for Internet Security controls and practical UNIX and Linux hardening, including file integrity, SSH posture, logging, and firewalls.

About the Company

Northramp

Builds, modernizes, runs mission-critical gov systems

Northramp helps mission-driven organizations build, modernize, and run the systems they depend on, such as federal programs, critical infrastructure, and the technology behind real services. The company pairs advisors and engineers on the same team so recommendations are built by the people who create them, reducing handoffs and surprises and delivering work that actually ships. They hire for substance over polish, asking sharp questions and doing the work to get it right, staying close to the real implementation rather than just the plan. This approach sets them apart from firms that separate thinking from building. Northramp’s goal is to connect technology work with real-world purpose, helping clients operate essential systems effectively.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Reston, VA
Founded
2012

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