Linux System Admin - Vicksburg, United States - Collins Consulting

Description

Must be a US Citizen who currently possesses a Secret Clearance with the possibly to obtain a Top Secret Clearance. This is an onsite position.

In support of the Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC), Team BAE provides program management and technical support necessary to advance services, capabilities, infrastructure, and technologies. Team BAE is seeking a Sr. Linux Administrator to support a team of administrators with standard Linux system administration duties at ERDC in Vicksburg, Mississippi

s a SME Linux System Admin:
Exceptionally Complex, Inter- Discipline, Inter-Organizational. A Subject Matter Expert is an individual whose qualifications and/or particular expertise are exceptional and/or highly unique. Subject Matter Experts do not have specific experience/education qualifications, but are typically identified as recognized Industry leaders for a given area of expertise. Can perform tasks of senior level technicians, specialists, and or managers not performed at lower levels due to the size and/or complexity of the tasks. Can include management of scientific/technical software development staff and strategic planning for program development

Primary Responsibilities:
Perform standard Linux System Administration duties as required to maintain smooth operation of multi-user computer systems consisting of Linux based application and license servers, virtual machines, and GP/GPU cluster based systems. Coordination with network administrators required. Additional duties are:
1. Setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocate mass storage space.
2. Developing and monitoring policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.
3. Participating in the installation, integration, acceptance testing, and on-going maintenance of our HPC systems and software environment.
4. Assisting with forecast resource limitations and provide recommendations for increasing the efficiency of our resources through proper scheduling and load balancing techniques.

Required Skills and Abilities
1. Extensive knowledge of Linux and Unix operating systems concepts as well as systems administration experience
2. Ability to develop and maintain documentation on system administration procedures for routine and complex tasks
3. Ability to create and maintain Information Assurance (IA) compliance documentation of the Information System

Desired Skills and Abilities
1. Experience with compiling, installing, and porting software.
2. Ability to understand application scaling issues related to problem resolution, algorithm choice.
3. Experience with Storage Architectures: SAN, SAS, FC, SATA, Bandwidth, Performance
4. Ability to manage development of appropriate application benchmarks, analyze results and determine optimal configurations for processor type/speed, size of memory/cache, and memory interconnect fabric for customer problem domains.
5. Familiar in multi-factor authentication platforms and solutions, and Identity Management such as OpenID, LDAP, and Kerberos.
6. Security implementations using multi-factor authentication, PKI, or Kerberos and Unix OS hardening to DoD STIG standards.
7. Experience programming or troubleshooting Python code
8. Experience with supporting Apache Web Server
9. Experience with Zabbix
10. Experience with Red Hat Satellite or Red Hat Identity Manager
11. Experience with BIND DNS
12. Experience with Ansible
13. Experience with Gitlab

Other
1. DoD 8570 Certification compliance - Security + and OS cert, Linux+, RedHat, etc. 90 day waiver may be provided to obtain the OS cert
2. May require occasion after hours support and response to emergency situations for problem resolution

Required education and background

1. Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience