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Active TS/SCI/w Poly and DODI 8570.1-M IAT Level I Certification Required 

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Support project design reviews, cost trade-off analyses, team meetings, program and customer meetings as needed.
• Develop and deliver configuration and deployment automation required for improving the functionality, availability, and manageability of platform and associated service.
• Perform software application maintenance and OS maintenance on a diverse network of physical and virtual servers.
  • Operating systems to include Windows Server, Red Hat Linux/CentOS, and VMWare.
• Perform routine and preventative maintenance such as general computer tasks, application loads, storage management, system loading and system monitoring
• Detect, isolate, document, quickly report, and resolve system outages or problems utilizing program processes and procedures.
  • These activities include collecting diagnostic data, restoring the system operation, developing workarounds, and other activities necessary for recovery of a system
• Document problems in logging and discrepancy reporting tools per customer requirements.
• Perform system monitoring, analyzing and documenting of performance and conducting trend analysis as required.
• Implement and maintain compliance of Information Security and Assurance policies
• Apply security hardening settings and work with our Information Assurance partners to maintain compliance with standards
• Administer backups and diagnose backup errors
• Partner with application/project/security teams and vendors to plan, design, and implement new IT infrastructure
• Create and maintain technical and detailed design documentation

Required Skills:
Candidate shall have a minimum of six (6) years of experience to include: 

• Performing Linux systems administration with Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS or SuSE Linux Enterprise 
• System maintenance activities such as user administration, system network management, patching, name resolution, authentication, daemon, init, and cron management
• System backup and restore with tools such as NetVault, Backup Exec, and Clonezilla 
• Experience with system deployment and configuration management tools such as Kickstart, Altiris, and Puppet 
• Experience with VMware Virtual Center Server and vSphere
• Linux integration with Windows-based systems
• System design, installation and configuration
• System security controls implementation
• Vulnerability Assessment (testing, assessment, mitigation/justification) 
• Experience with compliance and implementation of Information Security and Assurance policies (i.e., ICD-503)
• Troubleshoot issues using built-in operating system functionality and system logs
• Documentation including discrepancy reports, system configuration, test documentation, and user guides
• Demonstrated experience creating, implementing, and maintaining scripts for process automation, infrastructure monitoring, and proactive reporting
• Demonstrated experience in all aspects of managing a Unix/Linux environment including the use of configuration management tools like Puppet and Chef for centralized management and configuration of systems to enforce security controls 
• Must be able to provide occasional off hour call in support

Desired Skills:

• Experience in a DevOps role and environment
• Experience managing modern Windows systems and Active Directory
• Software release management and tools such as Subversion and Vagrant 
• Virtualization such as Vsphere and KVM
• Familiarity with Host-Based Security System (HBSS) suite of software applications (McAfee) 
• Network monitoring systems such as What’s Up Gold and Nagios 
• Object Request Brokers such as CORBA and RPC
• Public Key Infrastructure
• Experience and technical knowledge of satellite ground systems including hardware, software, and network architecture

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