Senior UNIX Systems Engineer - RHEL/OEL/Solaris

Trace Systems Inc.; Radford (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Trace Systems Inc. in Radford, Virginia, is seeking a Senior UNIX Systems Engineer to support a mixed UNIX environment (RHEL, OEL, Solaris) and drive performance, security, and reliability across multiple customer environments.

The role involves planning deployments, tuning performance, maintaining security controls, and developing operational documentation. A Secret clearance and relevant certifications are required, with opportunities to influence large-scale infrastructure upgrades.

Qualifications

• Active US Government Secret clearance.
• US Citizenship is required.
• Security+ certification.
• 5+ years Unix Systems Administrator/IT Engineer experience.
• 3+ years patch management with YUM/RPM.
• 3+ years with VLANs, troubleshooting tools (ifconfig, netstat, ssh, telnet) and system hardening with firewalld/iptables.
• 3+ years managing a large pool of local users via command line.
• 3+ years creating and following SOPs for repeatable processes, disaster recovery, and problem resolution.
• 3+ years configuring DNS, SFTP, SMTP, and NTP.

Responsibilities

• Manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot, and support a mixed UNIX environment (RHEL, OEL, Solaris).
• Collaborate with UNIX team to ensure availability, stability, and performance across customer environments.
• Plan, coordinate, implement hardware/software deployments, upgrades, configurations, and integrations.
• Monitor and tune system performance to maintain optimal operations.
• Implement and maintain system hardening standards and security controls.
• Monitor and report on security, health, capacity, and utilization.
• Identify issues, propose corrective actions, and implement improvements.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and SOPs.
• Support lifecycle management of datacenter hardware and vendor equipment.
• Evaluate new technologies to modernize the enterprise environment.
• Provide recommendations for infrastructure improvements and upgrades.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to communicate issues and support mission requirements.

Skills

Unix Systems Administrator

IT Engineer

Automation

VLANs

SSH/Telnet

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

CE Certification (RedHat)

Security+ Certification

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

YUM

RPM

firewalld/iptables

ifconfig

netstat

SSH

Telnet

Job description

Trace Systems Inc. in Radford, Virginia, is seeking a Senior UNIX Systems Engineer to support a mixed UNIX environment (RHEL, OEL, Solaris) and drive performance, security, and reliability across multiple customer environments.

The role involves planning deployments, tuning performance, maintaining security controls, and developing operational documentation. A Secret clearance and relevant certifications are required, with opportunities to influence large-scale infrastructure upgrades.