Cloud System Administrator 2 w/ 3 years experience

Annapolis Junction, MD · Information Technology

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION YOU MUST HAVE AN ACTIVE TS/SCI W/ POLYGRAPH SECURITY CLEARANCE (U.S. CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED)

The team is seeking a Cloud Systems Administrator. Our Cloud Systems Administrators conduct the following tasks:

Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of Information Technology (IT) systems
Manage IT system infrastructure and any processes related to these systems
Provide support to IT systems including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for all of the client/server/storage/network devices, mobile devices, etc.
Provide Tier 1 (Help Desk) and Tier 2 (Escalation) problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems
Provide support for the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers
Provide support for the dispatch system and hardware problems and remains involved in the resolution process
Configure and manage UNIX and Windows operating systems and installs/loads operating system software, troubleshoots, maintains integrity and configures network components along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance

The Cloud System Administrator provides support for implementation and trouble shooting and maintenance on large clusters.

Shall have at least three (3) year of experience performing system administration and monitoring large distributed system consisting of:

Multiple clusters;
Clustering implemented across at least 3 racks of equipment;
Minimum of 60 nodes per site.

Shall have experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large scale cloud computing systems including familiarity with distributed systems for storage and retrieval of data e.g. Hadoop, CASSANDRA, SCALITY, SWIFT, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or another other comparable technology for big data management or High performance computing.

Shall have demonstrated ability to work within a pre-defined mission focused team structure, follow SOP’s, communicate effectively, accept constructive feedback, and receive technical guidance and advice from senior level technical resources.

Shall have demonstrated a willingness to learn new technologies and leverage senior level resources to expand current technical foundation using team structure.

Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex tasks, show a willingness to educate and train more junior technical resources.

Demonstrated ability to plan, communicate, lead and oversee complex technical tasks requiring interaction with multiple groups.

Shall have five (5) years experience writing software scripts using scripting languages including bash, perl, or python.

Shall have seven (7) years experience demonstrating a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of core components of the Linux operating system including the management of user and group accounts in LDAP configuration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP.

Shall have demonstrated experience with configuration management tools including Puppet and SALT

Expert 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.

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.

Understanding of overall corporate architecture as well as familiarity with openSSL and Java keystore manipulation.

Expert in troubleshooting commodity hardware platforms including previous experiences with SGI/HP hardware including SGI’s J series

Education:
Three (3) years experience is required
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, 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 required.

Desired:

Advanced knowledge of SSH tunneling and protocols including the implementation of dynamic SOCKS proxies as well as other ssh-based utilities, including rysn, pdsh, pdcp, and WinSCP.
Basic understanding of low level network concepts including vlans, port channel bonding and layer2/layer 3 switch interactions.
Familiarity with software load balancers for large scale webservice implementations including haproxy and nginx
Experience with Kubernetes orchestration services and Docker images.
Experience with log aggregation and search tools including ElasticSearch, logstatsh, filebeats, Grafana, and rsyslog.

Cloud System Administrator 2 w/ 3 years experience

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