Senior Technology Consultant (HPC Systems Administrator) - Aberdeen, MD - Active TS/SCI Required

Soc Llc; Aberdeen (MD); On-site; USD 126,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SOC is seeking a Senior Technology Consultant (HPC Systems Administrator) to support a direct-hire engagement onsite in Aberdeen, MD. US Citizenship and Top Secret/SCI clearance are required; on-site work is expected in Aberdeen, MD.

Responsibilities include monitoring HPC health, patching, handling client tickets, and maintaining SLAs. The role demands leadership, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration across Linux clusters.

Qualifications

• Requires 8+ years of professional experience and a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Monitor HPC health including compute, network, and storage.

Skills

HPC systems

Linux administration

Cluster administration

Troubleshooting

Client support

Mentoring

Security compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

11+ years equivalent experience

TS/SCI clearance

Security+ and Linux+ certifications (RHCSA/RHCE/CISSP)

Tools

SUSE Linux

RHCSA

RHCE

CISSP

Job description

Supporting the Federal Government, contractors and subcontractors by delivering the industry’s best cleared talent and staffing resources.

Senior Technology Consultant (HPC Systems Administrator)

Needed for a direct hire opportunity with SOC’s client to work onsite in Aberdeen, MD.

US Citizenship required. Clearance required: Requires Top Secret (TS) Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), US government clearance. Onsite daily work required in Aberdeen, MD.

Responsibilities

• Monitors and maintains the health of HPC systems, including compute, network, and storage.

• Plans and performs monthly system patching and semiannual operating system upgrades.

• Reviews, resolves, and responds to client support tickets.

• Creates, tracks, and closes assigned support cases and ensures that all open cases on teams assigned systems are completed to customers satisfaction. Returns parts in accordance with company policy and customer SLA’s.

• Maintains availability reports to track service level agreements (SLAs).

• Plans, schedules, and completes monthly patching across all systems and kernel upgrades in accordance with company releases and established customer policies and guidelines.

• Maintains the client-required system security posture.

• Supports clients with application installations.

• Troubleshoots and repairs hardware issues.

• Maintains the on-call schedule to support 24x7x2/4 coverage year-round.

• Supports new system installations with hands on hardware and software and customer acceptance testing.

• Champions knowledge management and asset reuse across the practice to standardize quality and maximize operational efficiency.

• Mentors junior team members in issue and case management, skill development, and alignment with organizational goals.

Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrates the depth and breadth of technical expertise needed to design and scope multiple HPC deliverables across several technologies.

• Demonstrates innovation in developing and clearly communicating new deliverables and service offerings.

• Has led teams in delivering multiple solutions across a range of technologies.

• Develops solutions that improve a customer’s enterprise availability, performance, maintainability, and agility.

• Contributes to the design and adoption of new tools and applies prior experience to create new solutions.

• Maintains a detailed understanding of the architectural dependencies among technologies in the customer’s IT environment.

• Uses product, application, and architectural knowledge to develop solutions. Recognized as an expert in one or more technologies within the technical community and at the regional level and holds at least one relevant vendor or industry certification.

• Communicates confidently with senior internal and external stakeholders and consistently demonstrates professionalism.

• Works effectively across multiple technologies and can diagnose complex technical issues to their root cause. Combines strong troubleshooting and consulting skills, summarizes impact clearly for practice leaders, adapts consulting style to the situation, and identifies upsell opportunities.

• Presents technical demonstrations within their area of expertise.

• Contributes to engagement proposals within their area of expertise.

• Applies broad knowledge across related technical areas to manage complex integration efforts and deliver successful multi-discipline engagements.

• Independently completes solution implementation and application design deliverables.

• Additional skills: accountability, active listening, client expectations management, critical thinking, cross-functional teamwork, customer-centric solutions, customer relationship management (CRM), follow-through, growth mindset, long-term planning, managing ambiguity, process improvement, product services, and relationship building.

Education and Experience Qualifications

• Requires 8+ years of professional experience and a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field. In lieu of a degree, 11+ years of relevant professional experience is required.

• Clearance: Requires appropriate level of security clearance for site/contract - TS clearance; TS/SCI is preferred.

• Certifications: Requires CompTIA Security+ and Linux+ certifications or equivalents such as RHCSA, RHCE, CISSP etc. CompTIA Linux+ can be replaced with equivalent system admin certs such as Red Hat Certified System Admin (RHCSA) or SUSE Certified Admin (SCA) - a cert for the operating environment or OS we work with. We use SUSE v15 today.

• Location: Must be located near the customer required assigned work location.

• Experience: Requires experience in Linux systems and cluster administration.

• Availability to work on-site as required to support rotational, after-hours, and weekend on-call schedules.

Employment Prerequisites

The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation and drug urinalysis.

SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.

Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations, which may have been provided by job boards. Actual pay is determined by an applicant’s experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.

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Estimated Min Rate: $126000.00

Estimated Max Rate: $180000.00