Systems Administrator

Description:

Some of our Perks and Benefits

100% Paid Healthcare

31 Days PTO

10% 401k in every paycheck

100% Fully Vested!!!

Do you get excited about learning new technologies, problem solving, and influencing outcomes?

We know that cybersecurity and its technologies evolve at a rapid pace. The defense community needs an engineering partner who can not only keep up, but bring the technical expertise and passion necessary to solve the new hardest problems — and do it well. GIGATEC's highly engaged, agile team does just that, with innovative solutions for every mission-critical challenge.

If your answer is an enthusiastic "yes" then please keep reading!

Our team is passionate about defending national security and mastering new tech, so we give our engineers exactly what they need to do both: unlimited upskilling, tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment, and 100% paid healthcare, plus flexible benefits.

We are seeking Systems Administrators who wish to build their skills and focus on tackling the most difficult challenges of the US Government, in one of the most exciting areas of the mission available. GIGATEC offers top salaries and benefits packages, where your long-term success is our mission.

NOTE – Our positions require a Top Secret clearance, as well as Counterintelligence and Lifestyle polygraphs. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa.

Requirements:

What You’ll Be Doing (We don’t love the bullet points, but we love the work!)

Your role will include being tapped into for providing network management and systems administration to maintain the High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure and HPC development environment.

You will get to work with cutting edge systems which might include (but are likely not limited to) processing intensive analytics (remember, this is HPC), novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets (again, HPC!), real-time systems, business management information systems, and systems which incorporate data repositories, data transport services, and application and systems development and monitoring. All being critical to the success of the customer and the overall mission at large.

Required Skills

– Experience using the Linux CLI

– Ability to write scripts using Bash/Python

– Experience performing installation, configuration, and support of software, packages, and libraries in a Linux and Windows environment

– Experience with Network Appliance clustered servers and applicable software with direct attached FC San storage

– Experience using Red Hat Satellite to automate the deployment, provisioning, and patching of REL Linux systems across physical, virtual, and cloud environments

– Experience with hands-on troubleshooting, customer interfacing, issue resolution, discrepancy tracking, and report generation

– Familiar with data analysis platforms used for searching, and analyzing big data e.g., Splunk, Elastic Stack

– Experience with Linux configuration regarding Storage, Networking, Load Balancing, Memory Management, VMs, Firewalls, and System Monitoring

– Experience with corporate STE/STN security compliance policies, procedures, and tools

– Experience with corporate Security posture, accreditation for an SSP including mitigating IAVAs and POAMs

– Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) principles and automation tools e.g., Ansible and SaltStack

Qualifications

– (15) years’ experience as a Systems Administrator

– Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline (substitutions allowed)

– CompTIA Security+ certification