Senior Linux System Administrator

About the Role

Altamira requires Linux system administration support for the development, testing, deployment, operation, and maintenance of various mission-critical applications and services. A primary focus of this position is to provide system administration, configuration, and support tools to maintain and monitor the health of a large data transfer and message processing infrastructure. While the software development team is responsible for the development and customization of the applications, our client requires administration and enhancement of a data metrics collection and dashboarding system to allow simplified operator supervision of the performance of the overall system. Additional tasks include assisting with SNMP monitoring and data metrics collection in a diverse architecture.

Responsibilities

• Work in a Linux environment for a Cross Domain Solution (CDS), contributing to its sustainment and evolution
• Apply expertise on multiple complex scripting, development, and work-around assignments that may be broad in nature and require originality and innovation
• Develop methodology, present solutions to problems, and contribute to deliverables
• Provide system administration, configuration, and support tools to maintain and monitor the health of a large data transfer and message processing infrastructure
• Assist with SNMP monitoring and data metrics collection in a diverse architecture
• Conduct active monitoring and sustaining the operations of geographically distributed Linux-based applications to meet service-level agreements, including patching, troubleshooting, debugging, and the creation of workaround solutions
• Perform incident response management for the CDS solutions
• Interface with federal personnel to communicate SLA metrics and remediation of incidents
• Engage in scripting and possible software development to automate Operations and Maintenance
• Develop sensors to accelerate the detection of failed systems
• Develop documentation for operations, sustainment, and user guides

Requirements

• TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance
• Linux system administration experience conducting system virtualization, user account management, and application update repository maintenance
• Experience in the creation and management of Ansible playbooks for the automation of tasks
• Maintenance and usage of Git repositories and version control
• Eagerness to learn and contribute to the overall enhancement of existing tasks for the maintenance of the system and support applications

Skills

• Red Hat Linux 7/8/9
• Ansible
• Git version control
• Docker
• Python and Bash scripting
• Virtualization technologies such as VMWare ESXi and ProxMox

Pay

The anticipated salary range for this position is $120,000 to $160,000.