We pride ourselves on an open, and honest culture in the workplace which builds morale conducive to inspiring growth on our team, while balancing lifestyle by supporting personal and family goals with flexibility. We offer secure network systems and software engineering solutions in both the public and private sectors. With certified experts consulting the team, we are able to address the customer's mission and follow-through in the systems development life cycle. 

Clearance Required: TS/SCI with poly
Title: Linux System Administrator 
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD

Description:
Linux System Administrator IV (Server) Roles & Responsibilities:
These seasoned professionals are responsible for overseeing the most critical aspects of the HPC and Datacenter Infrastructure. They lead strategic planning, architecture design, and the deployment of enterprise-scale projects. They solve the organization’s most complex technical issues, contribute to IT strategy, and drive innovations to ensure the robustness, security, and efficiency of the infrastructure. In this senior role, professionals are expected to manage essential infrastructure services, ensuring high availability and performance of data center services, physical and virtual server-class systems and storage. They are expected to lead medium-to-large scale projects, design and implement system policies, conduct advance troubleshooting, and are pivotal in the direct recovery efforts during critical system failures. They also mentor junior staff members. Professionals in this role are expected to have the ability to work alone and as part of larger team to complete projects on time.

Technologies:
• Mastery of the VMware ecosystem, and have extensive experience in Hyper-converged Infrastructure environments across multiple security enclaves and data centers. Knowledge of Performance Optimized Datacenter (PODs), CentOS and RHEL 7/8/9 system administration, and VDI (specifically VMware Horizon, Citrix VDI). They need in-depth experience with Active Directory, LDAP and Centrify for identity management, Infoblox for core network services, and proficiency in using Nagios and Splunk for comprehensive system monitoring and analytics. Advanced skills in automation shell scripting, automation, streamlining, and system configuration using tools like Salt and Ansible.
• Experience with Linux provisioning server tools such as Kickstart and Cobbler to facilitate the automation of network-based system installations of multiple computer operating systems.
• Strategize and supervise extensive security protocols, utilizing Tenable Nessus for comprehensive vulnerability assessments and proactive security enhancements on Linux and Windows platforms.
• Govern account and access management landscapes using Centrify an Active Directory, ensuring stringent security compliance and efficient user privilege orchestration.
• Innovate security mitigation methodologies, fortifying enterprise infrastructure against evolving cyber threats.
• Enterprise-level management of Hyper-converged Infrastructure, vendor hardware and software across multiple data centers.
• Experience using Atlassian’s team collaboration software suite like Jira and Confluence to help organize teams, discuss and complete shared work.
• Lead cross-functional collaborations with network, storage, and SecOps teams, orchestrating major initiatives, critical outage management, and strategic improvements.

Years of Experience:
• 10+ years of experience in a system administration or similar role Degree Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. • Degree can be substituted with additional 3 years of relevant experience.

Certification Requirements:
• CompTIA Security+ CE (required)
• VMware Certified Professional, Red Hat Certified System Administrator or Red Hat Certified Engineer a plus.

Benefits:

We offer a competitive benefits and compensation package and FUN place to work! Benefits include, but not limited to:

Health and Wellness Benefits

• Medical Insurance (three CareFirst healthcare plans to choose from, Dental and Vision Insurance, 75% covered for employee/ 50% per dependant

• Health Savings Account (HSA) contributions $1500 individual/ $3000 family

Personal Insurance Benefits 

• Company-paid Life Insurance and AD&D coverage

• Company-paid Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance

Paid Leave

• Employees receive 20 days of vacation/10 holidays built into hourly rate/ 5 days of sick time (currently used for snow, jury, bereavement) 

Retirement

•  Pre-tax 401k program including 6% company match

• 100% fully vested from eligibility date

*Eligible after 90 days of employment

Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, pregnancy, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.