Job Description
Job Role: System Administrator
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Job location: Huntsville, AL
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Job duration: Full time
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About the Role
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Our client, a mission-focused technology organization, needs a senior Linux engineer to own the health and evolution of a mixed Linux, Windows and virtualized environment. You’ll be the go-to technical lead for server infrastructure, endpoint support and system design in a high-reliability setting.
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What You’ll Do
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• Own daily operations for servers and workstations: monitoring, alerting, fault resolution and performance tuning
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• Build, configure and troubleshoot physical, virtual and cloud-hosted systems
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• Architect platform and software layers that are secure, scalable and resilient
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• Spot weak points in the environment and fix them before they become outages
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• Plan and execute OS upgrades, software installs and patch cycles within change control guidelines
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• Guide application teams through deployments, patching and continuous improvement efforts
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• Partner with network, database, application and security teams, plus vendors and end users, to solve technical problems
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• Select and manage tools and hardware that safeguard data integrity
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• Run backup and archive schedules and manage media retention, including offsite rotation
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• Author and maintain SOPs, build records, architecture diagrams and configuration baselines
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• Perform recurring compliance checks on hardware and software against internal standards
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• Define test plans and acceptance criteria for infrastructure changes
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Must Haves
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• 6+ years in systems administration, infrastructure or deployment work
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• Deep hands-on Linux/UNIX experience
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• Experience with VMware or OpenShift
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• Solid Windows infrastructure knowledge
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• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, IT, Systems Engineering or similar
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• U.S. citizenship
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• Ability to pass a Public Trust background investigation and a drug/alcohol screening
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Nice to Haves
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• RHEL expertise
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• Ansible, Bash and PowerShell automation, including scripted data transfers between systems
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• Enterprise storage arrays (SAN/NAS)
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• Out-of-band server management (IPMI or similar)
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• Software-defined networking
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• CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines, infrastructure as code, Agile environments
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• Red Hat or Security+ certification
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• Background supporting government, aerospace or other real-time critical systems