Senior IT Professional/RedHat Linux Systems Administrator

Job Description

Job Description

St Louis, MO - Salary Range 110-160k

Job Brief

We are looking for a talented TS / SCI cleared Red Hat data center / systems administrator in St. Louis, MO to join a team of IT professionals who are responsible for maintaining, securing, and enhancing a R&D testbed network / environment across multiple security domains.

Responsibilities

The environment is a state-of-the-art IT lab that includes demonstration facilities, equipment and data services, high performance computing, cloud services and expertise for advanced GEOINT research and development. This environment provides NGA scientists with computers, storage, and desktop IT systems and software at locations across the country on four network domains.

The team's objective is to keep the technology up and running, provide innovative design, engineering, implementation, operations, sustainment, and disposal of information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains, at multiple locations worldwide, to support the NGA Geospatial-Intelligence (GEOINT) mission.

Requirements

• Proficiency and hands on experience with (not just familiarity) RedHat or some other variance of Linux
• Must be able to troubleshoot users' problems with RHEL 8 workstations and servers
• Must have basic understanding of Networks and be able to troubleshoot basic Network issues
• Must have experience with deploying and configuring virtual machines. VMWare, RedHat OpenShift and Kubernetes are a plus.
• Must be able to research findings identified by security scans and patching systems.
• Must be able manage storage solutions; such as NetApp.
• Data Center experience :
• Must be comfortable
• Racking servers
• Cabling power, fiber optics and ethernet
• Opening up servers, reseating cards, replacing cards, adding memory, etc.
• Experience with DevOps principles, Bash and Ansible scripting, and GitLab is a plus