Sr. Unix Administrator

Description

Position Overview

SAIC is looking to hire on a Sr. Unix Administrator to support one of our federal clients. This position is remote, but requires candidates be local to the Washington D.C. area, as there may be occasional need to go onsite in Ashburn, VA.

Job Responsibilities:

• Providing leadership role in troubleshooting, investigation of production issues
• Actively monitors, analyzes, suggests, and documents infrastructure processes with a focus on technology growth, performance, reliability, and security
• Coordinating with clients, management team, application team's data center and users
• Working effectively as a team member with the cross-functional development and systems management disciplines to identify requirements and subsequently leading projects in the implementation of infrastructure solutions

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+years plus System administration experience. 3+ with Linux (RHEL8)
• Support of large number of systems, more than 250
• Experience with Hardware Support and onsite support (assuming local)
• Experience with scripting (Shell, Python, Perl)
• Ability/willingness to participate in off hours support rotation
• Some Experience with a using services from a cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc)
• Good communication (written and verbal) and time management skills
• Understanding Networking technologies/tools and do network troubleshooting
• Experience in hardening systems and doing security remediation
• Operating System Configuration Tools

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience with installing and maintaining IBM MQ, Rabbit MQ or Active MQ
• Experience with LDAP using and or supporting LDAP
• Experience with support Linux systems running Database (Oracle, PostgreSQL , MySQL)
• Experience supporting a database (Oracle, PostreSQL, MySQL)
• Experience with a Kubernetes Platform (OpenSource, OpenShift, etc)
• Experience with running and maintaining containers
• Advanced Experience with one or more Cloud provider
• Experience with Exadata
• Experience with Ansible

Customer Requirements:

• Clearance - Ability to obtain and hold a public trust position and favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation
• Citizenship - Must be a US Citizen
• Location - Telework with on-site (Kingstowne, VA and/or Ashburn, VA) visits if mission need. All candidates must be within the GWA/commutable area

*This team utilizes an on-call schedule which may require travel to the datacenter site

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.