Unix Systems Administrator Job Listing at SAIC in Ashburn, VA (Job ID 2509185)

Description

Description

Position Summary

We are currently seeking a motivated and energetic senior-level UNIX Administrator with Kubernetes expertise to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career in Ashburn, VA.

Job Responsibilities

• Setting up, configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting Kubernetes, ensuring the stability and availability of the infrastructure.
• Designing and implementing storage solutions, managing networking, and ensuring the security of the cluster.
• Providing leadership role in troubleshooting, investigation of production issues.
• Actively monitors, analyzes, suggests, and documents infrastructure processes with a focus on technology growth, performance, reliability, and security.
• Coordinating with clients, management team, application team's data center and users.
• Working effectively as a team member with the cross-functional development and systems management disciplines to identify requirements and subsequently leading projects in the implementation of infrastructure solutions.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and at least 10 years of relevant experience.
• 10 years plus System administration experience. 6+ with Linux (RHEL8).
• Support of large number of systems, more than 250.
• Experience with Hardware Support and onsite support (assuming local).
• Experience with scripting (Shell, Python, Perl).
• Ability/willingness to participate in off hours support rotation.
• Some Experience with a using services from a cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc).
• Good communication (written and verbal) and time management skills.
• Understanding Networking technologies/tools and do network troubleshooting.
• Experience in hardening systems and doing security remediation.
• Operating System Configuration Tools.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experience with installing and maintaining IBM MQ, Rabbit MQ or Active MQ.
• Experience with LDAP using and or supporting LDAP.
• Experience with support Linux systems running Database (Oracle, PostgreSQL , MySQL).
• Experience supporting a database (Oracle, PostreSQL, MySQL).
• Experience with a Kubernetes Platform (OpenSource, OpenShift, etc).
• Experience with running and maintaining containers.
• Advanced Experience with one or more Cloud provider.
• Experience with Exadata.
• Experience with Ansible.
• Experience with OpenShift or Rancher.
• Experience with GPU systems.
• Master's degree (or higher) in computer science or related field is a plus.

Customer Requirements

• Clearance – Ability to obtain and hold a public trust position and favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation.
• Citizenship – Must be a US Citizen.
• Location – Hybrid with on-site (Ashburn, VA) visits 2-3 days per week and if a mission need. *This team utilizes an on-call schedule which may require travel to the datacenter site.