Sr. Unix Systems Engineer

Description

Job Description:

Looking for an exciting opportunity to make an impact as a Sr. Unix Systems Engineer?

1901 Group (A Leidos Company) has an exciting Sr. Unix Systems Engineer position located in Southwest Virginia with opportunities to work remotely.

POSITION SUMMARY:
Our new Sr. Systems Unix Engineer will work with an elite team of IT professionals to maintain an optimal environment for critical systems. Bring your own experience and work with our team to teach and learn while architecting, creating, maintaining, and refining the customer infrastructure.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the design, implementation and administration of Linux (Redhat) in virtualized environments (VMWare, Azure, and AWS).
• Provide guidance to other teams, systems engineers and operations staff on the status of the infrastructure.
• Produce technical writing for both system integration and transition to operations teams.
• Work in hybrid multi-location operations team administering existing production network
• Maintain and manage remote systems while also providing guidance to intermediate and Jr. team members.
• Plan and apply Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) on remote hosts to ensure security compliance.
• Ensure that data center operations are sustained during all maintenance activities.
• Confirm the execution of all applicable Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) controls for systems.
• Submit any applicable Plan of Action and Milestone (POAM) where required.
• Partner with System Administrators to deliver high availability for all server resources within the data center while ensuring confidentiality and integrity of the environment.
• Ensure all aspects of Disaster Recovery (DR) are operational and tested.
• Monitor health, performance and operational trends to proactively identify issues before they become incidents.
• Support tickets and manage incidents, service requests, and problems through their full life-cycle.
• Administer systems via its command line interface
• Apply system updates via YUM and RPM
• Work in hybrid multi-location operations team administering existing production network

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance prior to start

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

● Bachelor’s degree in IT or a related field and 6+ years of experience in UNIX engineering/administration, additional years of experience will be acceptable in lieu of a degree.
● Knowledge of Ansible to perform system management and automation on an enterprise level
● Understand network topology and its association with DNS Knowledge of how to partition disks using fdisk or gdisk and use basic LVM commands to create volume groups and logical volumes from physical volumes
● Able to create, delete and modify users and manage system services (start, stop, check status)
● Understanding of basic bash scripting
● Able to locate and interpret system log files to troubleshoot issues
● Understanding of Linux processes and the manipulation of them
● Understanding of MAN pages and how to use them
● Strong user management skills through the command line and an understanding of Linux/AD authentication and the use of realmd/Kerberos
● Understanding of DNS and how to configure A Records and CNAMES in a zone file and how to query DNS via nslookup
● Familiarity with AWS EC2, ALB, ELB, VPCs, security groups and an overall understanding of AWS cloud management
● Understanding the management and configuration of SELinux and how it can affect application runtime and security
● Understanding and demonstrated ability to interpret and utilize scripting (e.g. Python, Bash, Perl, etc) to automate and streamline system administration
● Communicate well with Executives, Managers, Peers and Customers.
● A US Citizen who can obtain a public trust clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

● Familiarity with cloud technology environments
● Experience with UI/UX design involving technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript ES6, Redux, CSS, Material Design, WebSockets
● Design and development of web services experience
● Previous cross browser development experience

Who Are We?

1901 Group (A Leidos Company) prides itself on looking ahead of our competitors for the next wave of IT trends. We provide our employees with training and development opportunities, preparing them for upcoming technical challenges.

With primary office locations in Blacksburg and Reston, VA, our teams support customers from across the United States. Our innovative IT as-a Service delivery model is supported by industry certifications that ensure quality and efficient IT solutions.

We are transforming the delivery of IT services through the use of enterprise managed services that leverage the cloud to securely monitor, manage, and optimize complex IT environments.
The history of automation is what inspired the name of our company. 1901 was the year that another disruptive technology changed the world: the assembly line. Leveraging skills and materials in an efficient manner within a repeatable process that quadrupled output applies to IT services today.

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