RHEL NMS Engineer — High-Impact Network Monitoring

Critical Solutions; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401K matching

PTO/Holidays

Education Reimbursement

Job summary

Critical Solutions is seeking a RHEL Network Management Systems (NMS) Engineer to design, deploy, administer, and support enterprise NMS infrastructures in Norfolk, VA. The role blends RHEL 8 back-end operations with application-level management of NMS tool suites to ensure high availability, performance, and security compliance.

The engineer will implement OS lifecycle management, perform kernel tuning, patch management, and IaC automation, while integrating NMS with CMDB and ITSM platforms

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, Network Engineering, or equivalent.
• RHCSA or RHCE certifications preferred.
• Hands-on experience with RHEL 8 environments and Linux system administration.
• Experience with SNMP v3, NetFlow, Syslog, and security compliance.

Responsibilities

• RHEL 8 back-end operations and system administration across physical, virtual, and air-gapped environments.
• Patch management and vulnerability mitigation using secure repositories.
• Automation and IaC with Ansible to provision servers and manage configurations.
• Configure NMS polling, telemetry, and alerting to ensure high availability.
• Integrate NMS data with CMDB databases and ITSM platforms via APIs.

Skills

RHEL 8

Ansible

Python

Bash

SNMP

NetFlow

Syslog

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, Network Engineering, or an equivalent technical field

Tools

Open Text NNMi

Open Text Network Automation

Cisco Catalyst Center

Arista Cloud Vision

Aruba Airwave

ServiceNow

Job description

Critical Solutions is seeking a RHEL Network Management Systems (NMS) Engineer to design, deploy, administer, and support enterprise NMS infrastructures in Norfolk, VA. The role blends RHEL 8 back-end operations with application-level management of NMS tool suites to ensure high availability, performance, and security compliance.

The engineer will implement OS lifecycle management, perform kernel tuning, patch management, and IaC automation, while integrating NMS with CMDB and ITSM platforms