Cloud System Administrator

Benefits

DCCA is a veteran-owned IT business with over 40 years of experience in providing IT services to government agencies and commercial enterprises. We pride ourselves on offering a competitive compensation and benefits package, fostering a culture of inclusivity and integrity, and supporting our employees' career growth.

Responsibilities

• Support for implementation and troubleshooting and maintenance on large clusters.
• Work within a pre-defined mission-focused team structure, follow SOPs, communicate effectively, accept constructive feedback, and receive technical guidance and advice from senior-level technical resources.
• Leverage senior-level resources to expand the current technical foundation using team structure.
• Write software scripts using scripting languages such as bash, perl, or python.
• Demonstrate a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of core components of the Linux operating system including managing user and group accounts in LDAP, configuring DHCP, DNS, and TFTP.
• Show experience with configuration management tools like Puppet and Salt.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot large-scale cloud computing systems, including familiarity with distributed systems like Hadoop, Cassandra, Scality, Swift, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or other comparable technologies for big data management or high-performance computing.
• Work independently on complex tasks, and show a willingness to educate and train more junior technical resources.
• Show demonstrated ability to plan, communicate, lead, and oversee complex technical tasks requiring interaction with multiple groups.
• Show advanced knowledge of SSH tunneling and protocols including the implementation of dynamic SOCKS proxies as well as other SSH-based utilities, including rysnc, pdsh, pdcp, and WinSCP.
• Show understanding of the end-to-end Linux PXE/Network provisioning process to include familiarity with Anaconda Kickstart configurations, RAID controller utilities, TFTP images, and disk detect scripts.
• Show experience accessing and troubleshooting systems via remote utilities to perform hardware diagnosis and repair, including VNC, serial over LAN interfaces, and IPMI, BIOS-level configuration.
• Show understanding of overall corporate architecture as well as familiarity with openSSL and Java keystore manipulation.
• Show basic understanding of low-level network concepts, including VLANs, port-channel bonding, and layer 2/layer 3 switch interactions.
• Show experience troubleshooting commodity hardware platforms, including previous experiences with SGI/HP hardware including SGI’s Jseries.
• Show familiarity with software load balancers for large-scale web service implementations including haproxy and nginx, experience with Kubernetes orchestration services and Docker images.
• Show experience with log aggregation and search tools including ElasticSearch, logstash, filebeat, Grafana, and rsyslog.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics is highly desired and will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience.
• Hadoop/Cloud System Administrator Certification or comparable Cloud System/Service Certification is desired.
• Show experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large-scale cloud computing systems, including familiarity with distributed systems like Hadoop, Cassandra, Scality, Swift, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or other comparable technologies for big data management or high-performance computing.
• Show demonstrated ability to work independently on complex tasks, and show a willingness to educate and train more junior technical resources.
• Show demonstrated ability to plan, communicate, lead, and oversee complex technical tasks requiring interaction with multiple groups.
• Show advanced knowledge of SSH tunneling and protocols including the implementation of dynamic SOCKS proxies as well as other SSH-based utilities, including rysnc, pdsh, pdcp, and WinSCP.
• Show understanding of the end-to-end Linux PXE/Network provisioning process to include familiarity with Anaconda Kickstart configurations, RAID controller utilities, TFTP images, and disk detect scripts.
• Show experience accessing and troubleshooting systems via remote utilities to perform hardware diagnosis and repair, including VNC, serial over LAN interfaces, and IPMI, BIOS-level configuration.
• Show understanding of overall corporate architecture as well as familiarity with openSSL and Java keystore manipulation.
• Show basic understanding of low-level network concepts, including VLANs, port-channel bonding, and layer 2/layer 3 switch interactions.
• Show experience troubleshooting commodity hardware platforms, including previous experiences with SGI/HP hardware including SGI’s Jseries.
• Show familiarity with software load balancers for large-scale web service implementations including haproxy and nginx, experience with Kubernetes orchestration services and Docker images.
• Show experience with log aggregation and search tools including ElasticSearch, logstash, filebeat, Grafana, and rsyslog.

Pay

The proposed salary range for this position in Maryland is $87,000 to $192,000. Final salary will be determined based on various factors.

Schedule

Our schedule is flexible to accommodate the needs of our employees and clients.