Systems Administrator, Senior

Wright Patterson AFB, OH (5 days on-site)

TS/SCI Clearance is Required

Summary

Your combination of people skills and system administrator expertise makes you the team hero, solving one problem after another. What if you could use those skills to improve the technology supporting the Air Force. We’re looking for a system administrator deep expertise in Linux systems, container orchestration such as Kubernetes, and automation such as Ansible. The ideal candidate will bridge the gap between complex technical execution and client-facing communication.
As a system administrator on our project, you’ll manage and optimize our infrastructure and be responsible for the architecture, security, and performance of our systems and containerized environments. You’ll provide your customers insight into their network through monitoring and performance management.
Your system administrator expertise will be vital as you identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network. You’ll help your team better understand the network by turning metrics into information and explaining their meaning.
This is an opportunity to broaden your skillset into areas like automation logic, cluster management, workload management, and CI/CD integration. We focus on growing as a team, so you’ll share your expertise through leadership and mentoring as you help the team work through challenges and develop new methodologies. As a system administrator leader, you’ll identify new opportunities to modernize the network so your clients achieve their goals. Work with us and resolve daily challenges as we improve our clients' network infrastructure and bring additional capabilities to the warfighter.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Linux Administration
• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible
• Experience with STIG hardening, SELinux or FApolicyd, and managing secrets and certificates
• Knowledge of IT networking and security concepts
• Ability to use troubleshooting tools such as netstat, tcpdump, traceroute, and ping to isolate network problems
• Ability to translate complex technical requirements into solutions for clients and engineers
• TS/SCI clearance
• HS diploma or GED
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification

Preferred Requirements

• Experience deploying and managing production Kubernetes clusters such as OpenShift, EKS, or RKE
• Experience with Helm charts and managing persistent container storage interface (CSI) and container networking interface (CNI)
• Experience integrating IaC and Ansible into pipelines such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions
• Knowledge of IP tables and NFTables, DNS, load balancing, HAProxy, and namespace
• Ability to conduct performance tuning, kernel patching, and debugging
• Ability to optimize Linux kernels for container workloads such as tweaking sysctl for K8s
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a STEM field
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) or Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE) Certification

Education/Certification Requirements

• HS diploma or GED 
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification

Clearance Requirements

• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, TS/SCI clearance is required.