Remote Senior Linux Systems Administrator – Secret Clearance

ASRC Federal Holding Company; Nebraska; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

ASRC Federal is seeking a Senior Linux System Administrator to lead day-to-day administration, hardening, and modernization of enterprise Linux environments in support of the Army’s ASIC software updates. This remote role requires a Secret clearance and availability for EST business hours.

You will implement IaC with Ansible/Terraform and collaborate across security, network, and application teams. You must have 5+ years Linux admin experience, DoD/federal exposure, and solid scripting skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline.
• Four additional years of equivalent experience in lieu of degree will be considered.
• Active Secret security clearance required or higher; TS/SCI strongly preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on Linux system administration experience; 3+ in senior/lead capacity.
• Experience in DoD or federal settings with mission-critical Linux environments.
• RHEL administration in on-prem and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and harden enterprise RHEL environments across on-prem and AWS GovCloud.
• Operate high-availability clusters and load-balanced services.
• Lead patch management, hardening, and STIG/ACAS compliance activities.
• Support ASIC software delivery workflows; deploy updates to Army units.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code with Ansible, Terraform, or equivalents.
• Author Bash/Python scripts for automation, monitoring, and reporting.
• Coordinate with security, network, and application teams for ATO and cATO.
• Mentor junior admins and guide architecture and lifecycle decisions.

Skills

Secret clearance

RHEL administration

AWS GovCloud

Bash

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Puppet/Chef/Salt

CI/CD tooling

Vulnerability remediation

Networking TCP/IP

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/IS

Tools

RHEL 8/9

AWS GovCloud

GitLab CI/Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

ASRC Federal is seeking a Senior Linux System Administrator to lead day-to-day administration, hardening, and modernization of enterprise Linux environments in support of the Army’s ASIC software updates. This remote role requires a Secret clearance and availability for EST business hours.

You will implement IaC with Ansible/Terraform and collaborate across security, network, and application teams. You must have 5+ years Linux admin experience, DoD/federal exposure, and solid scripting skills