• Linux Engineer

    SAIC (VA)


    Description

    SAIC is recruiting a Linux Engineer for one of our programs supporting the FDA. This role will be responsible for system administration of various Linux operating system facets within a VMware and AWS (Amazon Web Services) environment. Responsible for system maintenance, as well as application installation and configuration within a Linux Operating System. The engineer will be supporting a data center migration task to both a cloud environment and another data center. The engineer will have the ability to utilize several migration techniques to support this migration.

    Key technologies required for this role are:

    + RHEL/CentOS/Rocky 7+, Amazon Linux, Ubuntu 18+ VMware vCenter / vSphere / Horizon View

    + Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, RDS, IAM, VPCs, SecurityGroups, NACLS, etc.)

    + Apache / NGINX Web Services

    + Networking and related protocols (DNS, SMB, NFS, HTTP, SSH, etc.)

    + SSO and MFA (AD, LDAP, SAML, OID)

    + High Performance Computing / Cluster Computing

    + Other desired technologies:

    + Scripting (Shell and Python)

    + Automated configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, etc.)

    + SLURM HPC Scheduler

    Responsibilities:

    + Resolve issues and assess escalation to vendor support

    + Have the willingness to accept challenges outside of your expertise and comfort zone

    + Provide exemplary client communication skills

    + Ability to organize and work on multiple projects or tasks while maintaining schedules, deliverables, and industry leading SLA and uptime

    Qualifications

    Skills:

    + Advanced knowledge of clustering services, load balancing and replication services

    + Demonstrated experience in creating documentation of designs and solutions

    + Exposure to application, database, storage and network configuration within a Linux operating system administration

    + Ability to effectively communicate complex enterprise solutions to internal staff and customer

    + Excellent written and verbal communication skills

    + Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Singularity, Podman, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Fargate)

    Education and Clearance:

    + BS or MS in Computer Science/Computer Information Systems/Engineering

    + 5-7+ years of relevant work experience in Linux Administration

    + 1+ years of experience working in an AWS cloud environment

    + Desired - One Linux related certification, AWS Solutions Architect, or SysAdmin associate certification

    + Must be able to obtain a Public Trust

     

    Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

    REQNUMBER: 2510945

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