Linux System Administrator

POSITION: Linux System Administrator

Openings:  2- 1 (12hr) day shift and 1 (12hr) night shift

WORK LOCATION: Chantilly, VA

JOB CATEGORY: Information Technology

JOB TYPE: Full-Time

CITIZENSHIP: United States Citizen

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret/SCI With CI Poly

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: None

We are currently seeking a Linux System Administrator to join our team in Chantilly, VA in support of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The NGA delivers world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, military service members, intelligence professionals, and first responders.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and support cloud initiatives to support customer driven needs.
• Responsible for user account management and infrastructure requirements.
• Maintain program owned applications in support of a collaborative environment (JIRA, Atlassian, BitBucket, RocketChat)
• Work as a SME to define network requirements, user metrics, maintenance of our PPSM, and support to development needs.
• Responsible for infrastructure patching and OS baseline hardening
• Manage several environments as a Linux SME providing overall support to the program and working with Enterprise Services to ensure compliance with security services and applications.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related discipline plus 2-4 years of professional experience as a Systems Administrator or similar technical role.
• Security+ Certified
• Proactive self-starter demonstrating a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Two or more years of experience with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.)
• Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, network diagrams, data flows, etc.)
• Experience working with Agile Team Collaboration tools such as (Jira, Confluence, RocketChat)
• Strong Linux background and familiarity with best practices of infrastructure management.
• All candidates must be US CITIZENS to be considered for the position.
• Must have and be capable of maintaining a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance at the required level.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AWS and other cloud vendors.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services technical performance versus cost management
• Experience with cloud-based architectures

To Apply for this Position:

You must have the Minimum Qualifications in your resume to be selected as a candidate.

Salary Description:  Up to $100K USD