Linux System Administrator

Linux System Administrator Altamira Technologies has a long and successful history providing innovative solutions throughout the U.S. National Security community. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Altamira serves the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities worldwide by focusing on creating innovative solutions leveraging common standards in architecture, data and security. Location Chantilly, VA Responsibilities Support development, testing, deployment, operation, and maintenance of various mission‑critical applications and services in a Linux environment for a Cross Domain Solution (CDS). Provide system administration, configuration, and support tools to maintain and monitor the health of a large data transfer and message processing infrastructure. Assist with SNMP monitoring and data metrics collection in a diverse architecture. Active monitoring and sustaining geographically distributed Linux‑based applications to meet service‑level agreements, including patching, troubleshooting, debugging, and creating workaround solutions. Incident response management for the CDS solutions and interface with federal personnel to communicate SLA metrics and remediation of incidents. Develop scripts and possible software to automate operations and maintenance, and potentially develop sensors to accelerate detection of failed systems. Develop documentation for operations, sustainment, and user guides. Qualifications TS/SCI with CI Poly required. Experience with Linux system administration, system virtualization, user account management, application update repository maintenance. Experience creating and managing Ansible playbooks for task automation. Maintenance and usage of Git repositories and version control. Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash. Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMWare ESXi and ProxMox. Familiarity with Docker. Ability to troubleshoot and debug complex systems and develop workaround solutions. Top Skills Red Hat Linux 7/8/9 Ansible Git version control Docker Python and Bash scripting Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMWare ESXi and ProxMox Altamira is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. We focus on recruiting talented, self‑motivated employees that find a way to get things done. Join our team of experts as we engineer national security! #J-18808-Ljbffr Altamira Technologies