Senior Linux Administrator

Position: Senior Linux Administrator
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Salary Range: $81,600 - $91,600 per year
Clearance: Clearable to Q

KeyLogic is seeking a Senior Linux Administrator to support a major national laboratory.

You will need an extensive background in Linux server administration and issue resolution along with strong hardware/software troubleshooting skills. Experience with Bash shell scripting. Experience/knowledge working with Containers. And finally, knowledge and understanding of best practices and IT operations.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

In this position you will work with a team that provides computing capabilities and in-depth support for scientific and engineering applications. The team builds and maintains user environments, delivers subject matter expert support, and application-level software and tools to the scientific and engineering communities.

• Perform Linux Administration duties
• Support incident escalations requiring considerable judgement and initiative to resolve technical issues affecting hardware, operating systems, or applications.
• Work with vendors or external partners to diagnose and resolve issues
• Maintain systems by applying operating system or application patches, install new or replace hardware, create/apply configuration changes to improve or restore system performance
• Develop instructions/procedures for System Administrators I & II.
• Create scripts to aid with daily monitoring, maintenance, and repair of supported systems
• Monitor systems and preform hardware troubleshooting, tracking, resolution, and routine maintenance and security updates
• Conduct Quality Assurance checks. Perform system capacity analysis and planning
• Assist users in accessing and using business systems

Qualifications:

Requirements

• BS/BA degree with a minimum two years experience with Linux administration and troubleshooting. 6 Years of experience may substitute BS/BA degree requirements. Certificates can assist in offsetting experience requirements.
• Minimum two years experience with Linux (RedHat or Ubuntu) and are capable of OS installation, network configuration, and package/patch management.
• Experience with creating, running, and managing Ansible playbooks.
• Proven track record of problem solving using strong critical thinking, analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to research and solve complex issues independently
• Working knowledge and experience with bash shell scripting and other languages (Python, Perl, or Ruby)
• Experience in another IT field, such as Storage, Networking, Databases, or Cyber Security
• Ability to work seamlessly within a team as an active contributor.
• Strong verbal and written customer service and communications skills
• Knowledge of, and desire to follow IT Operations best practices and procedures such as issue management and incident response
• Familiar with information security best practices
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE "Q" Clearance

About KeyLogic:

Supporting critical missions at the intersection of data and science, KeyLogic provides mission management, systems analysis, data analytics, digital transformation, and cybersecurity to customers in the energy, federal civilian, and defense sectors, with a 20 year portfolio of successes supporting DOE, DOC, EPA, DOD, DHS, FBI, and other federal agencies challenged with complex missions. We help our customers solve the world s most challenging problems with unsurpassed anticipatory service.

KeyLogic employs over 600 team members, including systems designers, developers, data scientists, IT and cybersecurity specialists, engineers, mission experts, program managers, and more than 70 Ph.D. scientists. This multidisciplinary team works together solving challenging problems with anticipatory service always staying one step ahead benefiting our customers, and ultimately helping build a better world.

We are committed to the success of each customer s mission. We care enough to make their mission our mission and their success our success. We take technical service delivery to a level above our peers. Our anticipatory service is best-in-class.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at KeyLogic without regard to race; creed; color; religion; national origin; sex; age; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; genetic predisposition or carrier status; veteran, marital; or any other status protected by law. KeyLogic is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.

NOTE: KeyLogic is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Request for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis.