Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Salary negotiable – Full Time with Benefits – Contingent on contract award

About the role

Your work will focus on utilizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Administration experience to provide technical problem solving and in-depth consulting relative to system operations in a Research, Development, and Testing and Evaluation (RDT&E) environment for a Department of the Navy (DoN) customer. You will deliver engineering, design, and implementation solutions for multiple network architectures.

Responsibilities

• Administer servers, end-user workstations, and clustered systems operating in unclassified/classified network environments.
• Participate in planning new hardware acquisitions, developing operating policy, and interacting with vendors.
• Work with scientists and engineers to help them use workstations/servers to solve complex computation issues.
• Support user workstations and associated software.
• Assist with application installation, licenses management, software tracking/distribution, and backup/recovery of system configurations and user data files.
• Assist users with new accounts and approve user access.

Requirements

• Active DOD Top Secret Security Clearance.
• CompTIA Security+ CE and an active IAT level 3 certification.
• Six (6) years of professional experience in Unix and/or Linux system administration of networks and software systems.
• Experience in system backup and recovery; basic software management; security management and library management; installation and configuration of hardware; operational systems and COTS software; operating computer systems in different operating environments; and sizing, performance, tuning, hardware/software/network troubleshooting, and resource allocation.
• Qualified experience in different network protocols including TCP/IP and major network security tools such as firewalls, knowledge of computing and networking vulnerabilities, attack methods, and latest detection methods.