Senior UNIX System Engineer

Job Overview

Job Title: Senior UNIX System Engineer

Job Location: Radford Virginia

Trace Systems is seeking a Senior UNIX Systems Engineer to support and maintain a growing mixed UNIX environment consisting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) and Solaris systems. The project associated with this position is currently in the proposal stage.

• Manage maintain deploy troubleshoot and support a mixed UNIX environment consisting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) and Solaris systems.
• Collaborate with the existing UNIX team to support daily operations and ensure the availability stability and performance of enterprise servers across multiple customer environments.
• Plan coordinate and implement new hardware and software deployments upgrades configurations and integrations.
• Monitor analyze and tune system performance to maintain optimal server operations and identify potential issues before they impact the environment.
• Implement and maintain system hardening standards security controls and configuration requirements.
• Monitor and report on overall system security operational health capacity and utilization using established tools.
• Identify system issues recommend corrective actions and implement improvements to enhance performance reliability and operational efficiency.
• Develop maintain and update technical documentation team instructions standard operating procedures and operational policies.
• Support the full lifecycle management of datacenter hardware and vendor equipment including firmware version control maintenance planning and periodic preventive maintenance.
• Evaluate recommend demonstrate and implement new technologies and solutions to expand modernize and improve the existing enterprise environment.
• Provide technical recommendations for infrastructure improvements system upgrades and hardware and software integrations.
• Collaborate effectively with team members customers and stakeholders to communicate technical issues provide updates and support mission requirements.

• Active in-scope US Government issued Secret clearance.
• Due to the nature of the work and contract requirements US Citizenship is required.
• Required Certifications: Security
• Experience in Computer Science or IT.
• Computing Environment (CE) Certification (i.e. RedHat) can be waived for 30 days after project join date.
• Five or more years experience as a Unix Systems Administrator or IT Engineer with experience in automating assigned tasks.
• Three or more years experience in patch management with understanding how to apply security updates to systems via YUM and RPM.
• Three or more years experience working in an environment with complex networks while demonstrating experience using VLANs troubleshooting tools such as ifconfig netstat ssh and telnet as well as how to harden a system using firewalld/iptables and hosts.
• Three or more years experience managing a large pool of local users with the command line.
• Three or more years experience creating maintaining following Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable processes disaster recovery and common problem resolution.
• Three or more years experience configuring and maintaining key services such as DNS SFTP SMTP and NTP.

• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent years of experience.
• Three or more years experience with SELinux understand the basic and advanced management and configuration of SELinux.
• Experience supporting Cybersecurity patch management and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) Security Requirement Guides (SRG) RMF Security Control Assessor-Validator (SCA-V) and Cyber Operational Readiness Assessments (CORA).
• Experience deploying large scale HW and SW systems enhancements and/or upgrades for an organization with widely distributed geographic sites.
• Experience with current and emerging network and infrastructure management technologies and business practices.

• High School Diploma or equivalent.

Trace Systems Inc. was founded to support and defend our nations security interests at home and abroadwhenever and wherever. We provide enterprise IT engineering full life-cycle communications cybersecurity cloud and virtualization services and solutions to the United States Department of Defense and other federal agencies.

To Apply: We invite you to put your talents to work by joining a growing team of dynamic professionals here atTrace Systems! Be part of a culture at our leading-edge company where you can achieve great things while fostering a satisfying and rewarding career progression. To learn more about our current openings text tracejobs to 97211 or apply directly through our website at: . #jointracesystems

Trace Systems is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.

Trace Systems is seeking a Senior UNIX Systems Engineer to support and maintain a growing mixed UNIX environment consisting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) and Solaris systems. The project associated with this position is currently in the proposal stage.

• Manage maintain deploy troubleshoot and support a mixed UNIX environment consisting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) and Solaris systems.
• Collaborate with the existing UNIX team to support daily operations and ensure the availability stability and performance of enterprise servers across multiple customer environments.
• Plan coordinate and implement new hardware and software deployments upgrades configurations and integrations.
• Monitor analyze and tune system performance to maintain optimal server operations and identify potential issues before they impact the environment.
• Implement and maintain system hardening standards security controls and configuration requirements.
• Monitor and report on overall system security operational health capacity and utilization using established tools.
• Identify system issues recommend corrective actions and implement improvements to enhance performance reliability and operational efficiency.
• Develop maintain and update technical documentation team instructions standard operating procedures and operational policies.
• Support the full lifecycle management of datacenter hardware and vendor equipment including firmware version control maintenance planning and periodic preventive maintenance.
• Evaluate recommend demonstrate and implement new technologies and solutions to expand modernize and improve the existing enterprise environment.
• Provide technical recommendations for infrastructure improvements system upgrades and hardware and software integrations.
• Collaborate effectively with team members customers and stakeholders to communicate technical issues provide updates and support mission requirements.

• Active in-scope US Government issued Secret clearance.
• Due to the nature of the work and contract requirements US Citizenship is required.
• Required Certifications: Security
• Experience in Computer Science or IT.
• Computing Environment (CE) Certification (i.e. RedHat) can be waived for 30 days after project join date.
• Five or more years experience as a Unix Systems Administrator or IT Engineer with experience in automating assigned tasks.
• Three or more years experience in patch management with understanding how to apply security updates to systems via YUM and RPM.
• Three or more years experience working in an environment with complex networks while demonstrating experience using VLANs troubleshooting tools such as ifconfig netstat ssh and telnet as well as how to harden a system using firewalld/iptables and hosts.
• Three or more years experience managing a large pool of local users with the command line.
• Three or more years experience creating maintaining following Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable processes disaster recovery and common problem resolution.
• Three or more years experience configuring and maintaining key services such as DNS SFTP SMTP and NTP.

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