Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BMA is an employee-owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, AL that provides customer-focused services to government and commercial partners. BMA is seeking a UNIX/Linux Administrator to support the Defense Logistics Agency's AMPS effort by administering UNIX/Linux environments, optimizing systems and backups, implementing security and high-availability solutions, and supporting disaster recovery, data migration, and operational troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
- Designs, configures, implements, and maintains UNIX hardware and operating system environments including; AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris
- Optimizes backup processes; optimizes disk space allocations; performs installations and upgrades; monitors and reviews logs; applies appropriate operating system security measures; designs and implements high availability solutions, and plans data migrations between systems
- Provides technical expertise and assistance to team members as required
- Monitors operating system, hardware, storage, and backup procedures
- Determines execution and recovery times during disaster recovery and production environment testing, along with designing and implementing efficiency improvements
- Engineers and implements redundant systems; develops and enforces policies, procedures, and tests for disaster recovery and data archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of data assets
- Participates in initial project analysis including feasibility studies, scope, time line, task list, and duration of projects
- Designs, implements and performs UNIX/LINUX authentication and security audits while providing solutions and remediation for identified discrepancies
- Reviews real-time trending information, and contacts tiered support, when necessary
- Maintains regular contact with users and supervisor/manager regarding status of open or pending service calls
- Assesses and develops long-term strategic goals for production operating systems versions in conjunction with data owners
Skills
- Seven (7) years systems administration experience on UNIX/LINUX operating systems AIX, Solaris, or HP-UX
- Five (5) years' experience with Disaster recovery and data replication
- Five (5) years hands-on troubleshooting, tuning and patching experience
- Five (5) years administration, configuration and troubleshooting experience with UNIX Server Cluster, Load Balancing and Virtualization
- Computing Environment: HP UX CSA, HP OpenVMS, GCUX, SCSA, SCNA, UNIX AIX, LINUX, RHCT, RHCE, RHCSA
- Proven experience working with both UNIX and Linux operating systems, with a solid understanding of their differences and how to manage each effectively
- An understanding of STIGs and experience with STIG tools, application, and testing
- Experience with OS and application updates and patching, general maintenance, file system management, and verifying directory/mount points
- Experience operating in multiple environments, such as: development, testing, and production
- Familiarity with cloud computing and cloud architecture
- Knowledge on virtual environments such as VMWare, Kubernetes, etc
- Experience performing backups and restores
- Experience performing system administration tasks using the command line for the following process: file system management, user account management, verifying network configurations
- Strong understand of virtual and physical network configuration
- Understand of DISA STIG guidance and RMF
- Provide in depth experience in trouble -shooting IT systems
- Configure and manage primarily Linux/Unix (or other application) operating systems and install/loads operating system software, troubleshooting, maintain integrity of and configure network component, along with implementing operating systems enhancement to improve reliability and performance
- Previously worked with network devices such as routers, firewalls, and load balancers (i.e.-F5)
Benefits
- Fully remote role
- Multiple healthcare coverage options, including low deductible, high deductible, and plans eligible for a Health Savings Account (HSA) option
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Accident and illness coverage
- Short-term disability coverage
- Long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan with an industry-leading 6% match
- Profit sharing based on company performance
- 100% Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), providing eligible employees the opportunity to earn stock in BMA, subject to plan eligibility and vesting requirements
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