Senior Splunk & Linux Lab Administrator

Nightwing; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Nightwing is seeking a TEN Lab Manager to lead Linux systems administration across lab and production environments, driving large-scale Ansible deployments and Splunk monitoring to support cyber capabilities for government customers.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Linux SysAdmin experience, 3+ years Splunk, 3+ years Ansible, and the ability to collaborate across physical locations. A DoD clearance is required or obtainable.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of directly relevant experience as a Linux System Administrator.
• 3+ years of experience with Splunk Enterprise administration and log ingestion.
• 3+ years of experience with Ansible automation (Ansible Core or Ansible Tower/AAP).
• Must be able to work collaboratively across physical locations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a lead Linux Systems Administrator overseeing RHEL environments across development, lab, and production systems.
• Perform large scale configuration management and deployment across Windows, MacOS, Linux/Unix, and other operating systems and virtual environments to support the TEN infrastructure.
• Supporting the implementation of new technologies and equipment in the lab environment.
• Providing ongoing systems administration, technical support, upgrades, patching and troubleshooting services
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and workflows to automate application deployment and infrastructure provisioning.
• Configure, deploy, and maintain Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for large-scale provisioning, configuration management, and compliance enforcement.
• Administer and maintain Splunk Enterprise/Splunk Cloud for system monitoring, security analytics, and operational intelligence
• Implement and monitor security controls, including STIG compliance, access management, and audit configurations for Linux and Splunk systems.
• Develop dashboards and alerts in Splunk for proactive system health, performance, and security event monitoring.
• Performing implementation of granular access control, and monitor systems for acceptable performance and user accessibility, establish back-ups, and monitor systems security.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex storage problems across the enterprise related to storage and replication strategies across local and wide area networks, monitor channels for storage-related network and system issues and remediate them as they occur.
• Examine and identify efficiencies that can be made to existing procedures, with approval from the customer.
• Managing assigned project components to deliver services in accordance with established objectives.
• Advises and provides insight on development of lab standard operating procedures (SOPs) and policies.
• Employ security concepts, theories, insights, tools and methodologies to mitigate system weaknesses and vulnerabilities.

Skills

Linux System Administration

Splunk Administration

Ansible Automation

Collaboration across locations

Education

BS Computer Science/Engineering/IS or related

HS Diploma + 7+ years lab mgmt / sys admin

Tools

Splunk

Ansible

Job description

Nightwing is seeking a TEN Lab Manager to lead Linux systems administration across lab and production environments, driving large-scale Ansible deployments and Splunk monitoring to support cyber capabilities for government customers.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Linux SysAdmin experience, 3+ years Splunk, 3+ years Ansible, and the ability to collaborate across physical locations. A DoD clearance is required or obtainable.