Linux Systems Engineer

4 weeks ago

Rockville, United States Unissant Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Unissant, Inc. is an innovative solutions development and consulting company committed to delivering simplicity through innovation. We meet this commitment by delivering state-of-the-art enterprise computing and processing solutions to both government and commercial clients. Our workforce continually strives to advance (y)our collective intellect through collaborative fortitude, and we are looking for further talent to join that effort To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at www.unissant.com

We are seeking a Linux Systems Engineer to join our team in Rockville, MD.

Program Mission:

This program provides a full range of infrastructure support to a leading federal agency including server architecture design and maintenance, application hosting and administration, providing fixes and upgrade patches and ensuring cyber security compliance protections. You'll join a team balancing process-driven IT operations and Lean engineering with an integrated culture of continuous improvement, coupled with innovation and high-quality support services.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for working hands-on designing servers in Oracle Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a federal agency in both on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Consult and advise the federal client and associated developers to develop Linux-based solutions, plan, install, and act as a mentor and escalation point for the operations and maintenance of a multi-tiered server infrastructure.
  • Lead the testing and deployment of services and applications developed by other contractor teams and provide required functionality to support compliance with federal policy guidelines.
  • Monitor and evaluate, plan for capacity and design enterprise, fault tolerant systems utilizing various Linux flavors, and support development projects.
  • Work closely with teammates in other functional areas, maintain and enhance server security.
  • Work closely with various team members internally and externally for successful completion of various day-to-day tasks and ongoing infrastructure support projects and lead efforts to enhance standard operating procedures and technical documentation.
  • This position will identify hardware and software platform issues and work with teammates to implement proper patches and updates.
  • Support performance tuning and recommend performance improvements, troubleshoot, resolve performance problems and issues, along with other duties as assigned.

Work Experience:

  • A minimum of 4 years working with Linux servers is required.
  • Experience with configurations management tools such as Puppet.
  • Experience with patch management tools such as Satellite and Oracle Linux Manager.
  • Experience in compiling and deploying open-source software.
  • Experience performing IT Engineering responsibilities.
  • Experience with secure, tiered, application hosting environments.
  • Familiarity with HTTP, DNS, Internet Protocol, and the OSI Model.
  • Experience with server vulnerability remediation following agency, DHS, and/or DoD STIG Guidelines including working with SSL, DNS, and cyphers issues.
  • Experience with data transfer protocols such as GridFTP.
  • Professional IT experience in a large, distributed data center environment.
  • Experience in administering SSL/TLS certificates for web servers (creating, applying, troubleshooting).

Job Skills:

  • Ability to work hands-on to design and continuously improve Linux servers.
  • Ability to script and automate common tasks in Linux environments.
  • Exposure to Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure engineering and/or administration.
  • Exposure to load balancers such as F5 BigIP.
  • Exposure to server management systems like BigFix or LANrev.
  • Exposure to server and application deployment automation systems like Kickstart, Jenkins, and Docker.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills.
  • Familiarity with performance monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with customers, team members and managers.
  • Strong and Proven Customer service skills.
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize work within a dynamic environment.
  • In-depth knowledge and experience building, configuring, and monitoring web server system components; LDAP Authentication and compiling open-source applications.
  • Programming or scripting background with one or more of the following: Java, C/C++, PHP and/or any scripting languages (BASH, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.).
  • Established documentation skills.

Education:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field is desired

Certifications, Licenses and Registrations:

  • One or more of the following certifications is desired:
    • Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA).
    • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE).
    • ITIL Foundations certification.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust/Suitability.

Communication Skills:

  • Excellent oral and written communications skills.
  • Solid ability to interface, inspire and motivate at various levels of the organization.
  • Ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals.
  • Demonstrated experience communicating effectively across internal and external organizations.

Travel:

  • Availability for occasional after-hours and weekend support.
  • Willing to work onsite as needed

Environmental Requirements:

  • Mainly sedentary; in an office environment
  • May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds
  • Flexible in working extended hours

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, where applicable and available, reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

Please note: Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.

Unissant, Inc. is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE; M/F/Disability/Vets)



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