Linux Systems Engineer (SHIFT WORK)

Company: ALTA IT Services
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: March 20, 2025

Job Description:

Linux Systems Engineer

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2 Openings
100% ONSITE Chantilly, VA 20151
Active TS/SCI w CI Poly is required
Must have Security+ to start on program

***Panama Shift work****
Panama Shift is 12 hour work days;
To provide 24/7 coverage, the shift work is a cycle of two days on, two days off, three days on, two days off, two days on, and three days off.

Responsibilities Design, develop, and support cloud initiatives to support customer driven needs
Communicate and mitigate operational issues as received. Work to proactively identify RCA of baseline issues and establish a feedback loop to development.
Work as a SME to review user metrics, system health, overall performance checkouts and implements proactive measures to support operational availability
Responsible for deployment support as a product SME. Provide backfill tasking and troubleshooting script/playbook based automation processes as necessary.
Manage several environments as a Linux SME providing overall support to the program and working with Enterprise Services to ensure compliance with security services and applications.


Required Skills: Clearance: TS/SCI w CI Poly
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline plus 4-6 years of professional experience as a Systems Administrator or similar technical role.
Proactive self-starter demonstrating a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
Two or more years of experience with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.)
Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (network diagrams, data flows, etc.)
Experience working with Agile Team Collaboration tools such as (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket)
Strong Linux background and familiarity with best practices of infrastructure management


Preferred Skills: Oracle COTS product experience (Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Unified Directory, etc.)
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with Elastic tools (ElasticSearch, Kibana, Logstash)
Experience with AWS and other cloud vendors.
Experience with Amazon Web Services technical performance versus cost management
Experience with cloud-based architectures
Familiar with cross domain architectures at various levels
Experience with automated testing and monitoring
Experience with Engineering Review Boards and Change Management



Ref: #850-Rockville (ALTA IT)

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