Secure Linux Systems Administrator

Analytica; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Health care

Training funds

401k match

Job summary

Analytica seeks a Systems Administrator to manage secure compute, OS, access, storage, and monitoring for a federal data analytics and AI modernization initiative in Bethesda. You will help deliver a scalable platform with centralized tools for search, review, and decision support, while protecting security, privacy, and governance.

The role supports development, testing, staging, and production environments, with emphasis on system hardening, incident response, and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience administering enterprise systems and infrastructure in secure Federal or regulated environments.
• Hands-on experience with Linux system administration, identity and access management, storage, certificates, system services, patching, and security hardening.
• Experience supporting development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Experience with system monitoring, logging, backup, recovery, and incident response.
• Strong troubleshooting across operating systems, applications, networking, storage, access, and infrastructure services.
• Experience coordinating issues across network, database, platform, security, DevOps, and application teams.
• Strong knowledge of system security, configuration management, and operational reliability.
• Strong technical communication, documentation, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret eligibility.
• Active Top Secret clearance highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain secure compute, operating systems, identity and access, storage, monitoring, and infrastructure services.
• Configure, maintain, and harden Linux operating systems and enterprise infrastructure.
• Manage user accounts, roles, permissions, certificates, services, system configurations, and access controls.
• Perform system patching, vulnerability remediation, security hardening, and configuration management.
• Support development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Implement and maintain system monitoring, logging, backup, recovery, and incident response capabilities.
• Troubleshoot system, application, network, storage, access, and infrastructure issues.
• Coordinate with network, database, platform, security, DevOps, and application teams to resolve issues and maintain availability.
• Develop technical documentation covering system configurations, administration procedures, security controls, troubleshooting, backup/recovery, and operational processes.
• Support secure and reliable operation of enterprise systems while maintaining security, privacy, and data governance requirements.

Skills

Enterprise systems

Linux administration

Identity & access management

System patching & hardening

Monitoring & incident response

Troubleshooting across IT stack

Documentation & collaboration

US citizenship & TS eligibility

Tools

PostgreSQL

Microsoft SQL Server

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Job description

Analytica seeks a Systems Administrator to manage secure compute, OS, access, storage, and monitoring for a federal data analytics and AI modernization initiative in Bethesda. You will help deliver a scalable platform with centralized tools for search, review, and decision support, while protecting security, privacy, and governance.

The role supports development, testing, staging, and production environments, with emphasis on system hardening, incident response, and cross-team collaboration.