Systems Administrator - Linux

About the role

The Systems Administrator Engineer will support the FAA Test and Evaluation Lead and Technical Team at the William J. Hughes Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace. This role involves planning, designing, installing, configuring, and maintaining laboratory IP networks and Linux systems, including virtual machine management and equipment monitoring. The Systems Administrator will also perform software configuration management and maintain software issue tracking repositories.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on support to the FAA Test and Evaluation Lead and Technical Team for verification, validation, test, and deployment of modern IP-VCSs and Air-to-Ground Protocol Converters (APCs).
• Plan, design, install, configure, and maintain laboratory IP networks and Linux systems, including virtual machine management and equipment monitoring using industry standard open-source software solutions.
• Perform software configuration management and maintain software issue tracking repositories.
• Understand the current and emerging client space and evaluate and apply practical and innovative concepts and methodologies to solve difficult problems.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information System Security, Software Engineering or similar discipline, plus 6-17 years of relevant hands-on experience.
• Experience planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining laboratory Linux systems, including virtual machine management and equipment monitoring.
• Experience planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining laboratory IP networks consisting of multiple VLANs, subnets, domains, and constructed with enterprise grade network switches and routers.
• Exposure to configuring managed routers and switches.
• Experience with Version Control (i.e. Git).
• Strong software configuration management skills to ensure infrastructure configuration is reliably tracked and reproducible.
• Understanding of systems development lifecycles.
• Understanding of Information System Security practices and methodologies.
• Ability to prepare briefings to communicate and validate platform/Infrastructure features.
• Ability to work independently, collaboratively, and under consultative direction with cross-functional teams comprised of FAA staff, vendors, and contractor teams in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to evolving technical requirements.
• Ability to work remotely and onsite at the William J. Hughes Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace in New Jersey and to participate in on-call rotation and after-hours support as needed.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizen or Green Card Permanent Resident (3+ years U.S. Residency)
• Ability to obtain FAA Public Trust.

Desired Qualifications

• Knowledge of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the FAA National Airspace System (NAS).
• Experience using automation tools such as Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, etc.
• Experience with system requirements and design.
• Experience managing and coordinating test lab configuration activities.
• Experience with simulation environments, testbeds, or real-time data feeds for ATC systems.
• Experience collecting and analyzing data, and communicating technical information.
• Experience with Codebeamer, a collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool used for testing.
• Strong, clear verbal and written communication skills.
• Willingness to stay updated on industry trends and technologies.

Pay

USD $71,800.00 - USD $112,150.00 /Yr.

Schedule

Remote/hybrid status is subject to change based on Noblis and/or government requirements.