[PLUG] Fwd: Apex Systems - DoD Linux Opening

Maybe someone can use this.

Ron Guilmet

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From: Tia Bracken <tbracken@apexsystems.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 3:06 PM
Subject: Apex Systems - DoD Linux Opening
To: <ronpguilmet@gmail.com>

Good Afternoon!
My name is Tia & I am a technical recruiter with Apex Systems. I have a Red Hat Systems Administrator Opportunity that looks to be a fit for your background. This is within a very large, fast paced DoD facility – exciting new technologies!

This geographic location offers a low cost of living, a convenient distance to a lot of major cities along the east coast (2hr 20 min to Charlotte, 4hr to DC, 3hr to Richmond)

Location Radford, VA (Right outside of Blacksburg/Christiansburg, VA!)
Terms: Long term contract
Experience: A minimum of 5 years of experience as a Unix Systems Administrator/Engineer.

Required Certifications:

CompTIA Security+
CompTIA Linux+ or RHCSA or RHCE

Position Description:
This position is for a Systems Administrator for a mixed and growing environment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Solaris UNIX. This position will work with the existing UNIX team to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot and support servers for a mixed customer environment. This position will plan, execute and implement new system hardware and software and create and maintain team technical instructions, operating procedures and policies as needed. This position will need to be 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. The position will also recommend improvements to the enterprise, and manage new software/hardware integrations when required. The position will need excellent communication and team skills. This position will provide support towards the lifecycle of a mixed environment of vendor equipment in the datacenter to include firmware version control and periodic preventive maintenance.

Required skills:

SELinux – understand the basic and advanced management and configuration of SELinux
Scripting – be able to automate daily tasks when required
Patching – understand how to apply security updates to systems via YUM and RPM
Networking – have demonstrated experience using VLANs, troubleshooting tools such as ip, netstat, ss and telnet as well as how to harden a system using firewalld/iptables and hosts.allow
User Mgmt – be able to manage a large pool of local users through the command line
System Hardening – have exposure to or understanding of the DISA STIG or its commercial equivalent and be able to demonstrate experience in system hardening and auditing
Virtualization – have demonstrated ability using VMWare and be able to maintain and build systems from templates or from scratch via system ISO file. Know how to access a VM from the console and perform troubleshooting where necessary
Storage – understand SAN/storage concepts (LUNs, HBAs), logical volume management (LVM), & NFS and how to utilize all of those in the OS
Services – understand how SFTP/SMTP/NTP and DNSSEC work and have a demonstrated working understanding of how to configure and maintain each
Team Work/Communication – demonstrated interpersonal and teamwork skills as well as the ability to analyze and solve complex problems. This should include experience in designing, documenting and writing deliverable plans for enterprise implementations using Microsoft Office products such as MS Project and MS Visio.

Desired skills:

Perl scripting, kickstart, jumpstart, configuration management tools (puppet, ansible, chef), Solaris IPS, Solaris AI, git, iLO / DRAC configuration.
Understanding of Data Center technologies and experience with maintaining a Data Center for a medium to large data center, develop best practices for maintaining firmware and drivers required to sustain a high availability of systems.

Tia W. Bracken | Sr. Professional Recruiter | Apex Systems

10 Franklin Rd. Ste 520, Roanoke, Virginia 24011

Office: 540-427-7107 | Fax: 336-544-6261

tbracken@apexsystemsinc.com | www.apexsystems.com

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