Linux Systems Administrator (TS/SCI w FS Poly) - Chantilly, Virginia - $200,000 - $300,000

Exciting Opportunity: Linux Systems Administrator (TS/SCI w FS Poly)

Location: Chantilly, Virginia 
$200,000 - $300,000

Are you a skilled Linux Systems Administrator looking for a challenge in a high-stakes environment? Join a dynamic team on a long-term contract supporting the intelligence community, where your expertise will be critical to maintaining the stability, security, and performance of a cutting-edge infrastructure. This role provides the opportunity to work across both Windows and Linux environments, supporting mission-critical applications and services.

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide daily operational support for both Linux and Windows operating systems and applications.

- Manage and maintain virtual and physical infrastructure, including servers running CentOS in development, testing, and production configurations.

- Develop and maintain environments in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

- Ensure system security by monitoring dashboards and supporting Continuous Monitoring efforts.

- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of systems and applications.

- Oversee testing strategies, leveraging automation tools like Ansible and Puppet for provisioning, configuration management, and patching.

- Collaborate with fellow administrators, engineers, and clients to ensure smooth integration and operation of applications.

- Troubleshoot complex issues, provide incident analysis, and recommend solutions.

Required Skills:

- Security Clearance: TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph.

- Extensive experience with RedHat and/or CentOS.

- Proficiency with VMWare ESXi infrastructure (v6.x+), vCenter, host clustering, and replication.

- Experience with Ansible/Puppet for automated server builds and application management.

- Strong experience with AWS, including building, upgrading, and maintaining applications.

- Proficiency with Git, GitLab, or GitHub for code maintenance.

- Experience managing Elasticsearch on CentOS and working with Atlassian Jira and Confluence.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Skills:

- Certified Linux System Administrator.

- Knowledge of network engineering fundamentals and design.

- Experience with Microsoft Windows Server, SCCM, MS SQL Server, and PowerShell scripting.

- Familiarity with Syslog applications (Splunk), Hadoop infrastructure, and Cisco network/security devices.

- AWS Certification and ITIL Foundations Certification a plus.

- Certifications like CISSP, GIAC, or Security+ are highly desirable.

Benefits:

- 3 weeks paid time off and 2 weeks of holiday pay.

- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.

- Life Insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability, and AD&D coverage.

- 401k with up to 4% match, plus end-of-year profit sharing.

If you're passionate about IT security, system administration, and contributing to meaningful work in the intelligence community, this is the perfect role for you! Don't miss the chance to apply your skills in a fast-paced, highly secure environment.

DevOps Engineer – Mid or Senior Level – Chantily, VA - TS/SCI W/CI Poly - $260,000 - $280,000

DevOps Engineer – Mid or Senior Level – Chantily, VA
Full-Time, Permanent
$260,000 - $280,000

Our client is looking for a Mid-to-Senior DevOps Software Engineer to join our dynamic development team in supporting a Government customer. The engineer will be working with a large-scale enterprise application using web technologies, distributed computation and storage frameworks, and sophisticated, cutting-edge domain analytics, with the system hosted on virtualized and cloud-computing platforms. The software engineer work both independently with little supervision as well as engage with a team to achieve overall project objectives.



Details:

The DevOps Software Engineer participates in a team in implementing DevSecOps methodologies into an Agile software development environment.

• Collaborating and leading with other engineers to plan, design and develop the DevSecOps environment that includes cohesive CI/CD pipelines.

• Supporting the entire Software Development Lifecycle with an emphasis on build and release management via automation.

• Analyzing continuously the DevOps environment for technical and process improvements (e.g. integration of security measures, faster security and software updates, improved automation, reduced glitches and software failures, etc.).

• Maintaining the deployed system, deploying updates and fixes, investigating and resolving technical and network issues, providing technical support to end-users as needed.

• Promoting DevOps as a team culture.



Qualifications:

• CLEARANCE: Active Top Secret willing to sit for a CI Poly TS/SCI w/CI poly preferred or 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.

• 4+ years' experience with DevSecOps.

• 4+ years' experience integrating, testing, and deploying software applications to operations.

• 4+ years' experience with agile teamwork, and diverse multi-site geographical team collaboration.

• 4+ years' experience with RHEL and/or CentOS system and/or network administration.

• 4+ years' experience with cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or GovCloud.

• 4+ years' experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.

• 4+ years' experience with standard automated deployment tools (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, etc.).

Azure Cloud Architect - USA, Remote $140,000 to $180,000

Azure Cloud Architect

USA, Remote

$140,000 to $180,000

Responsibilities 

• Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements  

• Create and review architecture and solution design artifacts 

• Evangelize re-use through the implementation of shared assets  

• Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.  

• Proactively guide engineering methodologies, standards, and leading practices  

• Guidance of engineering staff and reviews of as-built configurations during the construction phase  

• Provide insight and direction on roles and responsibilities required for solution operations  

• Identify, communicate and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Decisions throughout the full lifecycle  

• Considers the art of the possible, compares various architectural options based on feasibility and impact, and proposes actionable plans  

• Demonstrate strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills  

• Ability to analyze and operate at various levels of abstraction  

• Ability to balance what is strategically right with what is practically realistic 

Minimum qualifications 

• Excellent technical architecture skills, enabling the creation of future-proof, complex global solutions  

• Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills are required to operate as a leading member of global, distributed teams that deliver quality services and solutions.  

• Ability to rapidly gain knowledge of the organizational structure of the firm to facilitate work with groups outside of the immediate technical team.  

• Knowledge and experience in IT methodologies and life cycles that will be used.  

• Familiar with solution implementation/management, service/operations management, etc.  

• Leadership skills can inspire others and persuade  

• Maintains close awareness of new and emerging technologies and their potential application for service offerings and products.  

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalency (CS, CE, CIS, IS, MIS, or engineering discipline) or equivalent work experience  

• Experience in a solution architecture role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms.  

• Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities.  

• Experience with any of the following: Azure, Azure Stack, Azure AD  

• Must have hands-on experience on various services like ADF, ADLS, Security, Monitoring, Governance

• Must have experience to design platform on Azure.

• 3+ years of hands-on Experience to design and build Databricks based solution on Azure platform

• 1+ year of hands-on experience to design and build solution powered by DBT models and integrate with databricks.

• Must be very good designing End-to-End solution on Azure platform.

• Must have good knowledge of Data Engineering concept and related services of Azure

• Must have good experience in Python and Spark

• Must have good experience in setting up development best practices.

• Intermediate level knowledge is required for Data Modelling

• Good to have knowledge of docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC  

• Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.  

• Experience building and supporting mission-critical technology components with DR capabilities  

• Experience with multi-tier system and service design and development for large enterprises  

• Extensive, real-world experience designing technology components for enterprise solutions and defining solution architectures and reference architectures with a focus on cloud technologies.  

• Exposure to infrastructure and application security technologies and approaches  

• Familiarity with requirements gathering techniques.  

• Microsoft, TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL, CCNA, CISSP, PMP, etc. 

Preferred qualifications 

• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, DSC, Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc.  

• Experience with relational, graph and/or unstructured data technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake, HD Insights, Hadoop, Cloudera, MongoDB, MySQL, Neo4j, Cassandra, Couchbase  

• Software development full lifecycle methodologies, patterns, frameworks, libraries, and tools  

• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, Java, Python, etc.  

• Experience with data ingestion technologies such as Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Pentaho, Alteryx  

• Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI

• Experience with analytics tools including SPSS.  

• Experience with machine learning tools such as Azure ML, IBM, AWS, etc.  

• Experience in distilling complex technical challenges to actionable decisions for stakeholders and guiding project teams by building consensus and mediating compromises when necessary.  

• Experience coordinating the intersection of complex system dependencies and interactions. 

• Experience in solution delivery using common methodologies especially SAFe Agile but also Waterfall, Iterative, etc.  

• Demonstrated knowledge of relevant industry trends and standards 

Why we're a great company
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation.

Orchestration Engineer - USA, Remote - $85,000 - $103,000

Orchestration Engineer

USA, Remote

$85,000 - $103,000

Job Description

Are you a creative engineer who takes pride in facilitating best practices at the highest level in an organization? Are you passionate about innovating, designing, and delivering scalable production infrastructure that enables development teams, and runs games that provide joy to players worldwide? Would you like to experience the power or your Talent Unleashed in a company that values you, is invested in every employee, and exists to bring joy to life through the Power of Play?

Summary:

We are seeking an innovative Orchestration Engineer to partner with technical and product teams, understand the unique and common aspects of each, and develop, facilitate, and build tooling to accelerate organizational velocity. The successful candidate will be responsible for collaborating with tech teams, stakeholders, and senior business leaders throughout our in defining, championing, and aligning the businesses’ needs with a compelling enterprise vision for Orchestration practices as we transform and advance the design, development, and build some of your very favourite social and casino games.

Roles and Responsibilities:

·      Collaborate with development and product teams to elevate existent best practices and collaborate to build automated, self-service solutions that address identified opportunities.

·      Play a vital development role in building best practices-based DevOps culture at our company.

·      Be a team player and evangelist to drive adoption and knowledge at all levels of the organization.

·      Develop, advocate, and operate Orchestration solutions and tooling accelerating our goals for hybrid on-premises and Public Cloud deployments.

Required Skills and Experience:

·      4+ years of hands-on engineering and administration experience in virtualized environments.

·      Experienced in delivering robust, performant, and scalable orchestrated infrastructure both on-premises and in Public Cloud.

·      Demonstrated team collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

·      Experienced with Infrastructure as Code tools and practices (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Packer).

·      Strong knowledge of technologies, tools, and practices such as:

       On-premises and Public Cloud containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, Anthos/Istio)

       Message Queue technologies (RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, GCP Pub/Sub

       On-premises and Public Cloud-based architectures (GCP, AWS, Microsoft Azure)

       Secrets management tools and practices (Vault, KMS)

       SOA, security by design, and deployment automation practices

·      Proficiency with Source Code Management and build systems (GitHub, SVN, Jenkins)

·      Experienced with languages such as Python, Go, Bash and/or PowerShell.

·      Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Our company is delighted to be named a Great Place to Work-Certified® company for the first time in Australia and the U.S, while also achieving certification in India for an impressive 6th time.

Orchestration Senior Engineer - USA, Remote -Orche $96,500 – $120,000

Orchestration Senior Engineer

USA, Remote

$96,500 – $120,000

Job Description

Are you a creative technical leader who takes pride in facilitating best practices at the highest level in an organization? Are you passionate about innovating, designing, and delivering scalable production infrastructure that enables development teams, and runs games that provide joy to players worldwide? Would you like to experience the power or your Talent Unleashed in a company that values you, is invested in every employee, and exists to bring joy to life through the Power of Play?

Summary:

We are seeking an innovative Orchestration Senior Engineer to partner with technical and product teams across business units, understand the unique and common aspects of each, and design, facilitate, and build tooling to accelerate organizational velocity. The successful candidate will be responsible for collaborating with tech teams and stakeholders throughout our in defining, championing, and developing solutions with a compelling vision for Orchestration practices as we transform and advance the design, development, and build some of your very favourite social and casino games.

Roles and Responsibilities:

·      Lead the building of an Orchestration development practice and a high-performance, responsive team of DevOps Orchestration Engineers.

·      Collaborate with development and product teams across business units to elevate existent best practices and collaborate to build automated, self-service solutions that address identified opportunities.

·      Play a key role in building best practices-based DevOps Orchestration culture at our company.

·      Be a mentor and evangelist to drive adoption and knowledge at all levels of the organization.

·      Design, advocate, and operate Orchestration solutions and tooling accelerating our goals for hybrid on-premises and Public Cloud deployments.

Required Skills and Experience:

·      8+ years of hands-on engineering and administration experience in virtualized environments.

·      Proven experience delivering robust, performant, and scalable orchestrated infrastructure both on-premises and in Public Cloud.

·      Demonstrated technical leadership, communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

·      Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools and practices (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Packer).

·      Proven knowledge of technologies, tools, and practices such as:

·      On-premises and Public Cloud containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, Anthos/Istio)

·      Message Queue technologies (RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, GCP Pub/Sub)

·      On-premises and Public Cloud-based architectures (GCP, AWS, Microsoft Azure)

·      Secrets management tools and practices (Vault, KMS)

·      SOA, security by design, and deployment automation practices

·      Proficiency with Source Code Management and build systems (GitHub, SVN, Jenkins)

·      Proven experience with languages such as Python, Go, Bash and/or PowerShell.

·      Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Our company is delighted to be named a Great Place to Work-Certified® company for the first time in Australia and the U.S, while also achieving certification in India for an impressive 6th time.

DevOps Engineer - USA, Multiple locations - $91,000 - $110,000

DevOps Engineer

USA, Multiple locations

$91,000 - $110,000

Job Description

We are seeking an innovative DevOps Engineer to partner with technical and product teams across business units, understand the unique and common aspects of each, and design, facilitate, and build tooling to accelerate organizational velocity. The successful candidate will be responsible for collaborating with tech teams and stakeholders throughout our company to develop DevOps practices and solutions as we transform and advance the design, development, and build of your very favourite casino games.

Roles and Responsibilities:

·        Help build DevOps and CI/CD solutions and be a part of a team of a high-performance DevOps Engineers

·        Liaise with development teams across technology teams to elevate existent best practices and collaborate to build new solutions that address identified opportunities

·        Liaise with the CTO leadership team and work to bring modernization to the DevOps space while following enterprise guidelines

·        Play a critical role in building best practices-based DevOps culture at our company.

·        Build, operate, and advocate DevOps solutions and tooling accelerating our goals for land-based gaming, online real money gaming, and social gaming

Required Skills and Experience:

·        5+ years of experience delivering DevOps functionality both on premise and Cloud

·        Expert knowledge of building CD/CI tooling and pipelines

·        Proficiency with dev, build, and deploy patterns for .NET, Python, Java, PowerShell, NodeJS

·        3+ years of experience with SOA, security by design, and/or data architecture practices

·        3+ years of experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS.)

·        3+ years of experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Cloudformation/CDK, Ansible)

·        3+ years of experience with cloud-based infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Microsoft Azure)

·        3+ years of experience with Source Code Management systems (GitHub/git, SVN, TFS, Azure DevOps)

·        Experience in SDLC processes, architectural patterns, and development frameworks

·        Working knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle and DevOps Methodologies

·        Experience in the use of Application Release Automation tools is highly desired

·        Knowledge of traditional workflow methodologies, including Scrum, Waterfall, or Kanban

·        Comprehensive understanding of application infrastructure, system architecture, and operating systems (Windows and Linux)

·        Self-directed with the ability to work effectively under tight deadlines is highly desired

·        Excellent communication skills

·        Problem-solving and analytics skills

·        Time management skills

·        2+ years experience with Casino Management Systems and Casino Operations is desirable

Our company is a world leader in gaming entertainment. We’re proud to have a team of over 7500 employees, operating in over 90 countries around the world, who push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and technology each day. We offer a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, social gaming and casino management systems but remain, and will always be, an ideas company that is committed to our customers, players, and our employees. We offer highly competitive compensation, robust benefits tailored to your needs, and global opportunities for career growth in an organization whose business is built on FUN!!!

US based roles may require registration with the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and/or other gaming jurisdictions in which we operate.

Our company is an equal opportunity employer and takes great pride in our diverse employee population. EEO/AA - W/V/D/M

This is a hybrid schedule with 2 to 3 days onsite. The candidate can office in one of our four locations: Austin, TX; Franklin, TN; Las Vegas, NV; Reno, NV