What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Linux & Windows Administrator position at Associates Systems LLC?
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Active TS/SCI/w Poly and DODI 8570.1-M IAT Level I Certification Required
Duties and responsibilities include:
Candidate shall have a minimum of six (6) years of experience to include:
Active TS/SCI/w Poly and DODI 8570.1-M IAT Level I Certification Required
Duties and responsibilities include:
- Support project design reviews, cost trade-off analyses, team meetings, program and customer meetings as needed.
- Develop and deliver configuration and deployment automation required for improving the functionality, availability, and manageability of platform and associated service.
- Perform software application maintenance and OS maintenance on a diverse network of physical and virtual servers.
- Operating systems to include Windows Server, Red Hat Linux/CentOS, and VMWare.
- Perform routine and preventative maintenance such as general computer tasks, application loads, storage management, system loading and system monitoring
- Detect, isolate, document, quickly report, and resolve system outages or problems utilizing program processes and procedures.
- These activities include collecting diagnostic data, restoring the system operation, developing workarounds, and other activities necessary for recovery of a system
- Document problems in logging and discrepancy reporting tools per customer requirements.
- Perform system monitoring, analyzing and documenting of performance and conducting trend analysis as required.
- Implement and maintain compliance of Information Security and Assurance policies
- Apply security hardening settings and work with our Information Assurance partners to maintain compliance with standards
- Administer backups and diagnose backup errors
- Partner with application/project/security teams and vendors to plan, design, and implement new IT infrastructure
- Create and maintain technical and detailed design documentation
Candidate shall have a minimum of six (6) years of experience to include:
- Performing Linux systems administration with Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS or SuSE Linux Enterprise
- System maintenance activities such as user administration, system network management, patching, name resolution, authentication, daemon, init, and cron management
- System backup and restore with tools such as NetVault, Backup Exec, and Clonezilla
- Experience with system deployment and configuration management tools such as Kickstart, Altiris, and Puppet
- Experience with VMware Virtual Center Server and vSphere
- Linux integration with Windows-based systems
- System design, installation and configuration
- System security controls implementation
- Vulnerability Assessment (testing, assessment, mitigation/justification)
- Experience with compliance and implementation of Information Security and Assurance policies (i.e., ICD-503)
- Troubleshoot issues using built-in operating system functionality and system logs
- Documentation including discrepancy reports, system configuration, test documentation, and user guides
- Demonstrated experience creating, implementing, and maintaining scripts for process automation, infrastructure monitoring, and proactive reporting
- Demonstrated experience in all aspects of managing a Unix/Linux environment including the use of configuration management tools like Puppet and Chef for centralized management and configuration of systems to enforce security controls
- Must be able to provide occasional off hour call in support
- Experience in a DevOps role and environment
- Experience managing modern Windows systems and Active Directory
- Software release management and tools such as Subversion and Vagrant
- Virtualization such as Vsphere and KVM
- Familiarity with Host-Based Security System (HBSS) suite of software applications (McAfee)
- Network monitoring systems such as What’s Up Gold and Nagios
- Object Request Brokers such as CORBA and RPC
- Public Key Infrastructure
- Experience and technical knowledge of satellite ground systems including hardware, software, and network architecture
