Linux System Administrator / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (NINSEA-AE4-13.061724bk)

SECURITY CLEARANCE: TS/SCI with both Polygraphs is required

POSITION: Senior System Administrator REQUISITION: NINSEA-AE4-13.061724bk LOCATION:   Linthicum Heights, Maryland

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Facilitate infrastructure management, continuous integration, environment configuration and deployment
• Support the project’s compliance and security posture.
• Focus on delivering the automation that enables all the other teams to operate smoothly.
• Check emails for alerts
• Check VM's (virtual machines) health status
• Address any outages
• Install latest patches on EC2 Instances/VMs
• Ensure Orgs production website is working
• Run Monthly Security Scans on systems

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES (of the position):

• Lead implementation of Accreditation process according to DISA stigs, CIS Benchmarks and NIST
• Build ansible playbooks to enhance security and compliance posture of centos, and Amazon Linux 2 OS’s.
• Collaborate with interdependent organizations to achieve mission objectives
• Administer/maintain AWS EC2 cloud infrastructure and Utilize Docker to scale up cloud assets.
• Continuously monitor the health and status of security tool suites through IT system management.
• Maintain, upgrade, refresh, and update to maintain full operational capacity.
• Utilize grafana to monitor health of systems
• Write scripts to manage maturity of system redundancy
• Troubleshoot degradation of application performance and infrastructure via docker queries
• Collaborate and coordinate with ancillary organizations to procure, deliver, dispose, and track and new HW/SW required for solution implementation.
• Prepare Configuration Plans, SW enhancement plans, and engineer solutions to easily interface with UI and/or web front-end interfaces.
• Partake in gathering an analyzing user requirements
• Develop and code software solutions via yaml
• Debug existing and newly developed software and correct insufficiencies
• Test and integrate systems into legacy applications
• Write up MySQL data queries to derive mission-essential data for metrics

REQUIRED SKILLS - with strong experience in:

➢ Linux system administration ➢ Docker ➢ AWS, C2S, or other cloud experience ➢ GitLab Pipeline ➢ Ansible Pipeline

DESIRED SKILLS:

➢ Elasticsearch ➢ Cloud hosting and automation ➢ Splunk

LCAT QUALIFICATIONS:

• CERTIFICATION:  N/A
• EXPERIENCE:
• High school + 12 years minimum experience, OR
• Associates degree + 10 years minimum experience, OR
• Bachelor’s degree + 8 years minimum experience, OR
• Master’s degree + 6 years minimum experience, OR
• Doctorate’s degree + 4 years minimum experience.