Senior UNIX Systems Engineer — DoD Secret Clearance

Integral Federal, Inc.; Radford (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Bonuses & Awards

Professional Training Reimbursement

Paid Parking

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Integral Federal, Inc. is seeking a Senior UNIX System Engineer to oversee a growing mix of RHEL/Oracle Linux and Solaris UNIX for the US Army PL ALTESS program.

You will work with the UNIX team to manage, deploy, troubleshoot and support servers in a mixed environment. Responsibilities include planning hardware/software upgrades, hardening systems, monitoring performance, patch management, and maintaining SOPs for disaster recovery and repeatable processes, while collaborating across teams and

Qualifications

• Five or more years' experience as a Unix Systems Administrator or IT Engineer with automation experience.
• Three or more years’ experience in patch management with understanding how to apply security updates to systems via YUM and RPM.
• Three or more years’ experience working in an environment with complex networks while demonstrating experience using VLANs, troubleshooting tools such as ifconfig, netstat, ssh and telnet as well as how to harden a system using firewalld/iptables and hosts.
• Three or more years’ experience managing a large pool of local users through the use of the command line.
• Three or more years' experience creating, maintaining, following Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable processes, disaster recovery, and common problem resolution.

Responsibilities

• Work with the UNIX team to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot and support servers for a mixed customer environment.
• Plan, execute and implement new system HW and SW and create and maintain team technical instructions, operating procedures and policies as needed.
• Adept at monitoring and tuning system performance, ongoing operation of the servers, hardening of the servers and reporting of the overall security and operational status.
• Recommend improvements to the enterprise and manage new SW/HW integrations when required while also providing utilization reports using existing tools to identify problems and corrective actions as needed.
• Provide support towards the lifecycle of a mixed environment of vendor equipment in the datacenter to include firmware version control and periodic preventive maintenance.
• Strong interpersonal skills and willingness to be a team player with excellent communication and team skills.

Skills

Unix systems administration

Automation

Team collaboration

Security practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Red Hat CE Certification

Tools

YUM/RPM patch management

SELinux

Firewalld/iptables

DNS/SFTP/SMTP/NTP

SSH

Job description

Integral Federal, Inc. is seeking a Senior UNIX System Engineer to oversee a growing mix of RHEL/Oracle Linux and Solaris UNIX for the US Army PL ALTESS program.

You will work with the UNIX team to manage, deploy, troubleshoot and support servers in a mixed environment. Responsibilities include planning hardware/software upgrades, hardening systems, monitoring performance, patch management, and maintaining SOPs for disaster recovery and repeatable processes, while collaborating across teams and