Jul 30
Top Secret/SCI
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$125,000 - $150,000
IT - Hardware
Washington, DC (On-Site/Office)
Linux/AWS Administrator
Washington, DC – 100% On-Site
The Job
You'll be a key part of a cross-functional team that helps critical institutions solve their most pressing problems. Together with a team of analysts, developers, technical project managers, and systems experts, you will be directly responsible for keeping a our client’s systems running smoothly and securely. You'll serve as the team's expert and owner for all things systems administration. You are the first line of defense against a variety of threats to the uptime of your servers.
On calm days you'll be proactively keeping things safe and secure through the implementation of industry best practices, security updates, and our client’s developed systems automation. When the unexpected occurs, you'll follow the trail of monitoring alerts and log messages to the source of the trouble, triaging outages and working with your team to understand what went wrong and how to fix it for good.
Functions
• Administer enterprise Linux servers including operating system patching, security hardening, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Administer AWS cloud accounts with Terraform as well as troubleshooting and debugging via the AWS Console and CLI
• Handle the operations of data storage and indexing systems, including monitoring, backup management, and upgrades.
• Configure and maintain web servers including monitoring and configuration management.
• Work with customer IT teams to coordinate changes and troubleshoot intersystem problems.
Technologies Used
• Amazon Web Services, Azure, and on-premises servers
• CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Prometheus and Grafana
• Oracle, Postgres, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch
• NGINX and Envoy HTTP servers
• Puppet, Ansible, Python, and shell scripting
Requirements
• (As required by U.S. Government contract) U.S. citizenship.
• (As required by U.S. Government contract) TS/SCI, with the willingness and eligibility to obtain a CI Poly and FSP; TS/SCI with active CI Poly or FSP preferred.
Preferred Skills
• Experience with Linux system administration
• Ability to troubleshoot server hardware failures
• Understanding of Amazon Web Services
• Applied knowledge in operating system security and hardening
• Ability to automate repetitive tasks using Ansible, Python, or similar language
• Experience in patch and configuration management in enterprise production environments
• Exposure to the operation and configuration of database and web server technologies
• Unwavering commitment to operational security and best practices
Washington, DC – 100% On-Site
The Job
You'll be a key part of a cross-functional team that helps critical institutions solve their most pressing problems. Together with a team of analysts, developers, technical project managers, and systems experts, you will be directly responsible for keeping a our client’s systems running smoothly and securely. You'll serve as the team's expert and owner for all things systems administration. You are the first line of defense against a variety of threats to the uptime of your servers.
On calm days you'll be proactively keeping things safe and secure through the implementation of industry best practices, security updates, and our client’s developed systems automation. When the unexpected occurs, you'll follow the trail of monitoring alerts and log messages to the source of the trouble, triaging outages and working with your team to understand what went wrong and how to fix it for good.
Functions
• Administer enterprise Linux servers including operating system patching, security hardening, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Administer AWS cloud accounts with Terraform as well as troubleshooting and debugging via the AWS Console and CLI
• Handle the operations of data storage and indexing systems, including monitoring, backup management, and upgrades.
• Configure and maintain web servers including monitoring and configuration management.
• Work with customer IT teams to coordinate changes and troubleshoot intersystem problems.
Technologies Used
• Amazon Web Services, Azure, and on-premises servers
• CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Prometheus and Grafana
• Oracle, Postgres, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch
• NGINX and Envoy HTTP servers
• Puppet, Ansible, Python, and shell scripting
Requirements
• (As required by U.S. Government contract) U.S. citizenship.
• (As required by U.S. Government contract) TS/SCI, with the willingness and eligibility to obtain a CI Poly and FSP; TS/SCI with active CI Poly or FSP preferred.
Preferred Skills
• Experience with Linux system administration
• Ability to troubleshoot server hardware failures
• Understanding of Amazon Web Services
• Applied knowledge in operating system security and hardening
• Ability to automate repetitive tasks using Ansible, Python, or similar language
• Experience in patch and configuration management in enterprise production environments
• Exposure to the operation and configuration of database and web server technologies
• Unwavering commitment to operational security and best practices
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