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Job ID 2509185 Location ASHBURN, VA, US Date Posted 2025-08-26 Category Information Technology Subcategory IT Sys Integration Schedule Full-time Shift Day Job Travel Yes, 10 % of the Time Minimum Clearance Required None Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain Public Trust Potential for Remote Work Yes Description Position Summary We are currently seeking a motivated and energetic senior-level UNIX Administrator with Kubernetes expertise to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career in Ashburn, VA. Job Responsibilities
- Setting up, configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting Kubernetes, ensuring the stability and availability of the infrastructure.
- Designing and implementing storage solutions, managing networking, and ensuring the security of the cluster.
- 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 teams 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
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and at least 10 years of relevant experience.
- 10 years plus System administration experience. 6+ 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.
- Experience with OpenShift or Rancher.
- Experience with GPU systems.
- Masters degree (or higher) in computer science or related field is a plus.
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 - Hybrid with on-site (Ashburn, VA) visits 2-3 days per week and if a mission need. *This team utilizes an on-call schedule which may require travel to the datacenter site.
Seniority level
- Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type
- Employment type Full-time
Job function
- Job function Information Technology
- Industries Computer Hardware Manufacturing, Defense and Space Manufacturing, and IT Services and IT Consulting
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