Systems Administrator III 37016

Location: Remote with travel to Atlanta, Georgia
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, and Paid Holiday
Pay: Up to $48/Hour
REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's Degree in IT, computer science, engineering, or another relevant field or equivalent experience (4 additional years of experience)
• A minimum of 8+ years (System Administrator) of industry experience in the areas of infrastructure engineering
• Display commensurate knowledge consistent with a RedHat Certified System Administrator and RedHat Certified Systems Engineer
• Proficiency with RedHat/CentOS 7/8 administration
• Established knowledge and experience with networking including LDAP based authentication systems and other core infrastructure essentials.
• Experience with problem/incident management.
• Intermediate Scripting Experience in a modern scripting friendly language (bash, python, perl, ruby)
• Intermediate Familiarity with modern container technology (Docker, Podman, libvirt, OpenShift, etc.)
• Layer 2 Switch Networking with VLANS management
• Experience supporting a high-performance computing infrastructure.
• Intermediate Configuration management via any modern standard system (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
• Intermediate Virtualization/Hypervisor experience (VMware or equivalent)
• Familiarity with monitoring environments such as Nagios, Zabbix, Sensu, Prometheus
• High level of proficiency in troubleshooting Linux performance issues
• Familiarity with security vulnerability triage and remediation
• Periodically travel to Metro Atlanta Datacenter as needed.
• Position requires US Citizenship or US Permanent Residency Status and the ability to obtain a Public Trust.
• Clearance as well as 3 years of current and consecutive US residence.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience working at the CDC or other federal government agencies.
• Large scale infrastructure design and implementation project experience
• Implementation experience with AWS/Azure (e.g.: SECDEVOPS engineer experience, service management,
• container to cluster migration)
• Experience managing different variations of Linux OS
• Understanding of network design and management - LAN, WAN, and VPN.
• Experience managing federal SA&A processes - developing security plans, facilitating POA&M items resolution, implementing HSPD-12 authentication, building secure IT infrastructure.
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Rancher Kubernetes Management Engine (RKE)
• Experience managing Pure Flash Blade Storage Appliance
• Experience supporting Cloudera CDP
• Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 experience
• Python 3 scripting fluency
• Intermediate familiarity with Docker containerization ecosystem
• Experience managing multi-protocol accessible file shares (e.g., CIFS, NFS, HTTPS)
• Verifiable contribution to an Open-Source Project (e.g.: GitHub, etc.)
• Familiarity with configuration of Dell and Client physical servers
• Familiarity with Client Blade servers
• RHCE certification
• Cloud certification (AWS or Azure)
• VMWare Certification

Vector Talent Resources is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age or genetic information.