Sr Linux System Administrator

System/Network Administration (Full-Time)

Position Overview

At Wyetech, you’ll be at the center of an award-winning corporate culture, breaking technological barriers and solving real-world problems for our federal government customers. We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry.

Responsibilities

• Designs and builds information technology framework and/or environments and guides information technology projects to produce results that comply with established project requirements and IT architecture.
• Identifies, documents, measures, optimizes, and provides advisement on changes to the IT architecture.
• Ensures that IT architecture remains up-to-date by reviewing and introducing changes based on project requirements and by applying industry standards and emerging technologies.
• Collaborates with technical teams to identify, evaluate, and recommend technical solutions to support project requirements.
• Designs, maintains, monitors, and supports operations and maintenance (O&M) activities of a large enclave comprised of various hardware, software and network components to include server architecture, virtual machines, managed switches, NAS, VLANs, and VPNs.
• Develops and carries out strategies to migrate existing customers to new architecture and technology with minimal impact.
• Evaluates new technologies or equipment that can be added to Agency standard solutions.
• Administers network including installing, configuring and maintaining network devices; configuring various routing protocols; troubleshooting multi-hop connectivity, throughput, and latency; setting up firewalls.
• Responsible for secure infrastructure and vulnerability corrections, data security, compliance, and backups and recovery.
• Maintains SSPs, STE/STN requirements, Netseer, SEAR logging, patching, IAVMs, McAfee, and UAM.
• Responsible for user-level support, including interacting with system-savvy developers and analysts, resolving network, computer, and virtual system issues & anomalies.
• Maintains enclave documentation (network diagram, system names, IP addresses, barcodes, etc.).
• Provides monthly activity reports to include system outages.

Requirements

Security Clearance

• Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).

Education and Experience

• Required Qualifications: TS/SCI with agency appropriate poly
• Degree Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree plus 11 years of relevant experience
  • Master's degree plus 9 years of relevant experience
  • Doctoral degree plus 7 years of relevant experience
  • An Associate's degree plus 13 years of relevant experience may be considered for individuals with in-depth experience that is clearly related to the position.
• Degree Field: Degree must be in Computer Science (CS). Related fields (e.g., Engineering, Mathematics, Information Technology, Information Systems) may be considered relevant if the programs contain, at minimum, a concentration of courses in the following foundational CS areas: algorithms; computer architecture (not network architecture); programming methodologies and languages; data structures; logic and computation; and advanced mathematics (for example, calculus, discrete mathematics).

Technical Skills

• Required Technical Skills:
  • Familiarity with Docker, MongoDB, and Elastic Search
  • Familiarity with Ansible and GitLab
  • Familiarity with RedHat Satellite
  • Working knowledge of software-defined networks
  • Experience deploying and maintaining nginx
  • Experience with system monitoring platforms like OpenVAS, Prometheus and Grafana
  • Knowledge of SELinux and FIPS
  • Knowledge of LatteArt/Biscotti, Netseer, SEAR logging

Company Information

At Wyetech, you’ll be at the center of an award-winning corporate culture, breaking technological barriers and solving real-world problems for our federal government customers. We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry.

Benefits Package

Wyetech believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. The company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching. All contributions are fully vested from day one.