Linux Administrator

30 Jan 2025

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Job Title: Linux Administrator

Client: Leidos/OCSE

Location: Baltimore, MD (Remote for now)

Duration: One year

Description: Leidos has an opening for a System Administrator to provide support for daily operations and maintenance of a federal customer network that includes Linux EC2 instances, S3 storage buckets, Syslog and CloudWatch logging and other AWS services. This will be responsible for configuring, modifying and manage Linux servers, including OS patching and upgrading, that supports multiple applications. This individual will participate in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure and applications environments. This individual will ensure that all system, and related procedures adhere to organizational values for a program supporting a federal customer.

Duties & Responsibilities include:
  • Work with system architects, network engineers, system engineers, software developers and database administrators to maintain/build servers and to perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, problem analysis, and resolution of issues as they arise.
  • Participate in all aspects of network and system operations on a daily basis including team and meeting and troubleshooting calls.
  • Keep team leads informed of status and potential areas of concern at all times.
  • Coordination with business and technology teams on system/software requirements.
  • Create/update system/software documentation.
  • Research and make suggestions on the deployment of emerging technologies.

Required Skills and Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 2 to 4 years of relevant professional experience.
  • Linux administration including ssh, scp, rsync, sudo, and some shell scripting.
  • Linux monitoring/troubleshooting tools (Nagios, top, lsof, netstat, iftop, etc.)
  • Implementation and troubleshooting AWS services like VPCs, EC2, S3, AWS Backups, etc.
  • TCP/IP protocol suite including IPv4, subnetting and TCP/UDP ports
  • Strong technical troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to create/maintain system/software diagrams/documents using various tools including MS Visio or DrawIO
  • Experience in evaluating solution alternatives, design and communicating recommendations to the program team
  • Good verbal and written communications skills

Desired Skills:
  • Ansible and AWS Cloud Formation
  • Basic understanding of Git and Subversion repositories
  • Basic understanding of Cisco ASA firewalls
  • Knowledge of IP load balancing and network intrusion prevention devices

  • ID: #48924622
  • State: Maryland Baltimore 21201 Baltimore USA
  • City: Baltimore
  • Salary: $50 - $60
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2023-01-30
  • Deadline: 2023-03-13
  • Category: Et cetera