Job description

Open Systems Technologies Corporation is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer II (Unix/Linux) to provide support on a large IT project with the FBI. The Systems Engineer shall be responsible for the design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base operating system, but for all support libraries, components and application dependencies.

Position requirements and duties of the Principal Systems Engineer II (Unix/Linux)

• The Systems Engineer shall serve as the advanced knowledge expert for all Linux environments.
• The Systems Engineer shall create and maintain bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate distribution of Linux and network configuration, using tools that include Satellite Server, Puppet and BigFix.
• The Systems Engineer shall provision/configure the required software onto servers, such as web servers and databases.
• The Systems Engineer shall evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the Linux infrastructure.
• The Systems Engineer shall monitor and correct critical server issues and process for failures and performance bottlenecks.
• The Systems Engineer shall manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure.
• The Systems Engineer shall possess excellent knowledge base in DNS, DHCP, LDAP, SMTP, and integration with Windows to solve technical and functional issues.
• The Systems Engineer shall install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools.
• The Systems Engineer shall proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• The Systems Engineer shall monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
• The Systems Engineer shall maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• The Systems Engineer shall write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
• The Systems Engineer shall participate in the design of information and operational support systems
• The Systems Engineer shall provide 4th level support.
• The Systems Engineer shall build new baselines with the appropriate security and access controls to include DISA STIGS and required security controls. Updated baselines will be required quarterly and new versions within 90 days of the manufacturer's release to production and full DISA STIGS.
• The Systems Engineer shall engineer multi factor authentication between Linux environments and the enterprise Windows infrastructure components.
• The Systems Engineer shall engineer solutions for baselines to operate in full standalone mode, domain mode, and fully integrated mode for all classification levels and enclaves.
• The Systems Engineer shall work with the developers to transition applications from one platform to another to include from physical to virtual and virtual to cloud.
• The Systems Engineer shall work with security components to resolve any security findings or vulnerabilities and apply fixes or updates as well as solutions to achieve closure.
• The Systems Engineer shall liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
• The Systems Engineer shall ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.
• The Systems Engineer shall integrate systems with Windows as it applies to authentication and core services dependencies such single sign-on and Active Directory. Engineer and implement solutions for multi factor authentication with FBI standardized software and hardware.
• The Systems Engineer shall document system configurations to include passwords, access controls, version number, and revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory to include hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, number of processors, and number of cores, memory, and license keys.
• The Systems Engineer shall continually transition knowledge to the government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.

Qualifications:

• CLEARANCE: Top Secret

This position shall be filled with individuals that have a minimum:

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
• Bachelors degree, and 6+ years of experience or Red Hat Certified Administrator (RHCA) and, a bachelors degree preferred, and 8 years required.
• Systems Engineer skill set with focus on Unix/Linux based systems such as Red Hat Linux, Solaris, SuSE, and CentOS.

BENEFITS

Our company OST has been operating since 1996 and have various contracts with Government agencies. We offer a comprehensive benefit package that includes 3 weeks paid time off, 2 weeks Holiday pay, medical/dental coverage, STD, LTD, Life Insurance, ADD, 401k with up to 4% match, and end of year profit sharing paid out in 401k.

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