Linux Systems Engineer

Open Systems Technologies Corporation

Linux Systems Engineer

Chantilly, VA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Open Systems Technologies Corporation is looking for an experienced Linux Systems Engineer to provide support to a mission critical enterprise identity and access management system. A successful candidate will develop an understanding of the services offered to external organizations, provide lifecycle systems engineering support to development and operations on the program, and use a combination of technical and functional expertise to recommend solutions to satisfy customer requirements.

    Responsibilities

    • Design, develop, and support cloud initiatives to support customer driven needs
    • Communicate and mitigate operational issues as received. Work to proactively identify RCA of baseline issues and establish a feedback loop to development.
    • Work as a SME to review user metrics, system health, overall performance checkouts and implements proactive measures to support operational availability
    • Responsible for deployment support as a product SME. Provide backfill tasking and troubleshooting script/playbook based automation processes as necessary.
    • Manage several environments as a Linux SME providing overall support to the program and working with Enterprise Services to ensure compliance with security services and applications.

    Required Skills:

    • Clearance: TS/SCI w CI Poly
    • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline plus 2-4 years of professional experience as a Systems Administrator or similar technical role.
    • Proactive self-starter demonstrating a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
    • Two or more years of experience with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.)
    • Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, network diagrams, data flows, etc.)
    • Experience working with Agile Team Collaboration tools such as (Jira, Confluence, RocketChat)
    • Strong Linux background and familiarity with best practices of infrastructure management
    • Security+ or DoD Equivalent required to start.

    Preferred Skills:

    • Experience with AWS and other cloud vendors.
    • Experience with Amazon Web Services technical performance versus cost management
    • Experience with cloud-based architectures
    • Familiar with cross domain architectures at various levels
    • Experience with automated testing and monitoring
    • Experience with Engineering Review Boards and Change Management

    BENEFITS

    Our company OST has been operating since 1996 and have various contracts with Government agencies. We offer a comprehensive benefit package that includes 3 weeks paid time off, 11 Paid Holidays, medical/dental coverage, STD, LTD, Life Insurance, AD&D, 401k with up to 4% match, and end of year profit sharing paid out in 401k.