Support and maintain a mission-critical identity and access management system. Design, develop, and support cloud initiatives, manage Linux environments, perform deployments, troubleshoot and automate operational tasks, collaborate with development on RCA, and ensure compliance with enterprise security services.
OVERVIEW:
We are seeking 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.
GENERAL DUTIES:
- 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 QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must be a US Citizen
- Active Top Secret clearance
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline plus 4-6 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 (network diagrams, data flows, etc.)
- Experience working with Agile Team Collaboration tools such as (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket)
- Strong Linux background and familiarity with best practices of infrastructure management
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Oracle COTS product experience (Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Unified Directory, etc.)
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Elastic tools (ElasticSearch, Kibana, Logstash)
- 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
CLEARANCE:
- Active Top Secret clearance minimum required
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