Senior UNIX System Engineer

Overview

The Senior UNIX System Engineer is responsible for the performance and oversight of the mixed and growing environment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Oracle Enterprise Linux and Solaris UNIX requirements for the U.S. Army Product Lead Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services (PL ALTESS).

Responsibilities

· Work with the existing UNIX team to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot and support servers for a mixed customer environment.

· Plan, execute and implement new system HW and SW and create and maintain team technical instructions, operating procedures and policies as needed.

· Adept at monitoring and tuning system performance, ongoing operation of the servers, hardening of the servers and reporting of the overall security and operational status.

· Recommend improvements to the enterprise and manage new SW/HW integrations when required while also providing utilization reports using existing tools to identify problems and corrective actions as needed.

· Provide support towards the lifecycle of a mixed environment of vendor equipment in the datacenter to include firmware version control and periodic preventive maintenance.

· Need to be able to recommend, demonstrate, and implement technologies to help expand, upgrade, and increase efficiency to the current environment.

Qualifications

Required:

· CompTIA Security+.

· Experience in Computer Science or IT.

· Computing Environment (CE) Certification (i.e., RedHat) – can be waived for 30 days after project join date.

· Five or more years' experience as a Unix Systems Administrator or IT Engineer with experience in automating assigned tasks.

· Three or more years’ experience in patch management with understanding how to apply security updates to systems via YUM and RPM.

· Three or more years’ experience working in an environment with complex networks while demonstrating experience using VLANs, troubleshooting tools such as ifconfig, netstat, ssh and telnet as well as how to harden a system using firewalld/iptables and hosts.

· Three or more years’ experience managing a large pool of local users through the use of the command line.

· Three or more years' experience creating, maintaining, following Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable processes, disaster recovery, and common problem resolution.

· Three or more years’ experience configuring and maintaining key services such as DNS, SFTP, SMTP, and NTP.

· Strong interpersonal skills and willingness to be a team player with excellent communication and team skills.