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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 Data Engineer - Irving, TX Full-Time, Permanent - $110,000 - $120,000

Azure Data Engineer
Irving, TX
Full-Time, Permanent
$110,000 - $120,000

Required Skills:

                                  

  • Experience in GCP/Azure, Strong Data modelling, Python, Experience with RDBMS, Big Data processing frameworks and tools (Cloudera, Sqoop, Hive, Impala, Spark), DevOps tools and techniques (e.g. continuous integration, Jenkins, Puppet, etc)

                                                        

Preferred Skills:                                     

  • Experience building/migrating data pipeline from on-prem to Cloud (GCP or any cloud)

  • Understanding of cloud technologies

  • Unix Scripting

  • Tableau and Excel tool expertise

                                                     

Job description:                                     

  • Build data pipelines to ingest data from On-prem to cloud

  • Experience with Big Data processing frameworks and tools (Cloudera, Sqoop, Hive, Impala, Spark)

  • Experience with DevOps tools and techniques (e.g continuous integration, Jenkins, Puppet, etc)

  • Experience software development on a team using Agile methodology

  • Build data standardization & transformation logic using framework following Object Oriented Programming concept

  • Write Unit Test scripts

  • Implement standardized error handling & diagnostic logging

  • Schedule and maintain production workflows on-prem as well as cloud

  • Troubleshoot and resolve QA and Production defects

  • Handle code review and code deployment