Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SMX is a team of technical and domain experts dedicated to enabling customer missions through secure, practical technology solutions. The Linux Administrator will support the Cloud Business Unit by deploying, operating, and sustaining production-ready solutions, software, and tools, while administering Linux systems and troubleshooting infrastructure issues.
Responsibilities
- Position is onsite
- Working as directed by contractual guidance
Skills
- Clearance Required: None; Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
- Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience
- Interest in working with and learning a wide variety of technologies. Our team works with DevOps technologies, systems automation, configuration management, Linux container technologies (Kubernetes, GitOps workflows), CI/CD pipelines, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and more
- Linux systems management and analysis experience (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu)
- Comfortable administering virtualized environments with VMware vSphere VMs, containers, or similar
- Experience administering systems in a large-scale setting
- Excellent customer facing skills and the calm professional demeanor necessary to bolster customer confidence when stress is highest
- Strong analysis and troubleshooting skills and experience
- 3+ Years of technical experience
- Perform basic administration tasks and initial troubleshooting of different Linux distributions
- Knowledge of the most common OS logs used for troubleshooting problems
- Troubleshooting of disk space issues and knowledge of the administrative tasks required to address these problems
- High level understanding of security in Linux (filesystem permissions, etc), may have experience managing users and groups
- Troubleshooting of booting issues and how to manage services in Linux (SystemV and or SystemD)
- Basic backup and restore concepts (desktops/laptops)
- Have experience installing software using the different package managers
- Basic understanding of applications such as Apache, NginX, MySQL, etc
- Troubleshoot performance issues in a single domain using common OS tools such as top, sar and free
Benefits
- Learning and development opportunities
- Health insurance
- Paid leave
- Retirement
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