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.

Senior Technical Lead, Development - Toolchain - Modern Delivery - McLean, VA - Hybrid -

Senior Tech Lead, Development – Tool Chain – Modern Delivery
McLean, VA – Hybrid Working – Monday & Fridays remote, Tues, Weds, Thurs Onsite
Full Relocation Package on Offer
$200,000 - $250,000 + Bonus

Position Overview:

Toolchain is a key component of a Modern Delivery program. It provides tools to transform the development & delivery of business capabilities using an automated workflow with embedded controls that deploy to a cloud-based infrastructure. This role will be accountable for strategic leadership of the Modern Delivery Toolchain as a Product. That includes but is not limited to overall vision, design, prioritization, stakeholder & risk management, roadmap execution, & operations of the toolchain.

Our Impact:

Key outcomes include:

- Provide best-in-class support for 5000+ users & multiple mission-critical products across the Enterprise.

- Partner with Business Technology & IT Technology Risk Security divisions to ensure alignment of solution design with information security standards, architecture standards, governance, and compliance requirements.

- Manage toolchain operations such as resiliency, capacity, and uptime in a highly effective manner.

- Collaborate with stakeholders from disparate lines of business to prioritize capabilities and a customer value-centric strategic roadmap.

- Partner with Governance groups on principles and guidelines that enable engineering teams to deliver low-risk, high-impact solutions.

- Build & communicate on new capabilities, action plans to close gaps, and meet roadmap commitments.

Your Impact:

- Develop solution design & roadmap for CICD automation with embedded controls for complex scenarios such as governance, experimentation using modular patterns to expand automation of emerging & established cloud-native stack across industry-standard cloud providers.

- Strategy to deliver business priorities such as configuring and integrating automation of testing, security & risk management policy enforcement, and release management functions such as change record, asset records, change traceability.

- Drive operational excellence capabilities such as Single Sign-On, Monitoring Dashboards, Audit compliance reports, password & vulnerability management.

- Develop open lines of communication with senior leaders within and across divisions.

- Coach teams to collaborate effectively, focused on customer-centric outcomes.

- Accountable to self-identify emerging technology risks as well as action plans and execution of open risks.

- Be a trusted partner for technical consultation, executives, and senior leadership across business platform, risk, and other partners to align the roadmap with Business & IT’s strategic vision.

Qualifications:

- College Degree or equivalent experience; 10+ years of technology experience and 4+ years of management experience.

- Experience across design oversight of build & operating solutions with strong organization and time management skills.

- Operate independently with minimal guidance with demonstrated experience of delivery.

- Use of multiple automation tools & plugins via API Embedded scripts. Configuration for COTS tools for both pre & post actions for controls across tools for control activities such as merge checks, task/story approvals.

- Create a modular library for Jenkins DSL using Groovy; with a strategy on when to determine refactor need & devise a staggered plan to meet enterprise automation use cases.

- Create, organize & manage a central set of templates across technology microservices (Java, JS, Python) automations (script runner help, deployment patterns for cloud components such as storage, DB, gateway, vault across runtimes such as EKS, OCP using tools/products such as Rafay, Ansible, CFT, Terraform); with extensible framework as a design principle.

- Experience in integrating Jenkins for data product deployments like Attunity, Talend, Snowflake.

- Experience in designing and integrating with SAS products like Salesforce, Automation Anywhere (RPA), Appian, MicroStrategy, etc., for automating the build, deploy, and release process.

- Design KPI indicators (including load & scalability) and monitor operation/runtime across tools (such as Atlassian- Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence; Jenkins, Rafay). Integrations such as security (Fortify, Blackduck, Checkmarx, Twistlock, ELK) with strategy to manage continuous availability & code-based configuration to swap tools as needed.

- Design engineering productivity metrics such as merge size/time/frequency/releases to provide actionable insight for customers to evolve their software dev & delivery practices.

- Experience reviewing cloud cost using tools such as Apptio to identify opportunities and devise action plans to reduce costs by right-sizing compute storage, API calls across cloud-native services used by customer & toolchain environments.

- Build strategy to accelerate capability build with federated-contributor mode – with guardrails for enterprise controls, scale & maintainability.

- Experience with AWS native services for releases, upgrades, vulnerability remediation for COTS products on managed infrastructure.

Keys to Success in this Role:

- Comfortable working with unknowns; outstanding verbal and written communication skills to concisely present complex technical aspects, linking between technology & business partners.

- Ability to influence and work with multiple senior leadership partners to establish goals, objectives, and action plans.

- Ability to critically evaluate information, reconcile conflicts, and be self-motivated with strong organizational and time management skills.