Linux System Engineer (TS/SCI CI Poly)

Company: ALTA IT Services
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: November 19, 2024

Job Description:

Linux System Engineer

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Active TS/SCI CI Poly Required
Direct Permanent Hire
Chantilly, VA- Hybrid role- Only onsite as needed
Email: Cdinnocenti@altaits.com

ALTA IT is looking for an experienced Linux Systems Engineer to provide support to a mission critical enterprise identity and access management system. A successful candidate will develop an understanding of the services offered to external organizations, provide lifecycle systems engineering support to development and operations on the program, and use a combination of technical and functional expertise to recommend solutions to satisfy customer requirements.

Preferred Skills:

Design, develop, and support cloud initiatives to support customer driven needs
Communicate and mitigate operational issues as received. Work to proactively identify RCA of baseline issues and establish a feedback loop to development.
Work as a SME to review user metrics, system health, overall performance checkouts and implements proactive measures to support operational availability
Responsible for deployment support as a product SME. Provide backfill tasking and troubleshooting script/playbook based automation processes as necessary.
Manage several environments as a Linux SME providing overall support to the program and working with Enterprise Services to ensure compliance with security services and applications.

Required Skills:


Clearance: TS/SCI CI Poly
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline plus 4-6 years of professional experience as a Systems Administrator or similar technical role.
Proactive self-starter demonstrating a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
Two or more years of experience with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.)
Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (network diagrams, data flows, etc.)
Experience working with Agile Team Collaboration tools such as (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket)
Strong Linux background and familiarity with best practices of infrastructure management
Oracle COTS product experience (Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Unified Directory, etc.)
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with Elastic tools (ElasticSearch, Kibana, Logstash)
Experience with AWS and other cloud vendors.
Experience with Amazon Web Services technical performance versus cost management
Experience with cloud-based architectures
Familiar with cross domain architectures at various levels
Experience with automated testing and monitoring
Experience with Engineering Review Boards and Change Management

BENEFITS
We offer a comprehensive benefit package that includes 3 weeks paid time off, 11 Paid Holidays, medical/dental coverage, STD, LTD, Life Insurance, AD&D, 401k with up to 4% match, and end of year profit sharing paid out in 401k.

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