Linux Principal Systems Engineer II Security Clearance

Position: Linux Principal Systems Engineer II with Security Clearance
At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That's why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next. Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility-leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation's vital interests.

Requisition #: 1374

Job Title:

Linux Principal Systems Engineer II

Location:

Pocatello,
Clearance Level: TS/SCI and ability to pass and maintain a CI Polygraph
Required Certification(s): RHCA or RHCE SUMMARY The Contractor shall be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base Linux operating system, but for all support libraries, components and application dependencies. JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• The Contractor shall serve as the advanced knowledge expert for all Linux environments.

• The Contractor shall create and maintain bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate distribution of Linux and network configuration, using tools that include Satellite Server, Ansible and Big Fix.

• The Contractor shall provision/configure the required software onto servers, such as web servers and databases.

• The Contractor shall evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the Linux infrastructure.

• The Contractor shall monitor and correct server issues and process for failures and performance bottlenecks.

• The Contractor shall manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure.

• The Contractor shall possess excellent knowledge base in DNS, DHCP, LDAP, SMTP, and integration with Windows to solve technical and functional issues.

• The Contractor shall install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools.

• The Contractor shall proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.

• The Contractor shall monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.

• The Contractor shall maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.

• The Contractor shall write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.

• The Contractor shall participate in the design of information and operational support systems.

• The Contractor shall provide 4th level support.

• The Contractor shall build new baselines with the appropriate security and access controls to include DISA STIGS and required security controls. Updated baselines will be required quarterly and new versions within 90 days of the manufacturer's release to production and full DISA STIGS.

• The Contractor shall engineer multi factor authentication between Linux environments and the enterprise Windows infrastructure components.

• The Contractor shall engineer solutions for baselines to operate in full standalone mode, domain mode, and fully integrated mode for all classification levels and enclaves.

• The Contractor shall work with the developers to transition applications from one platform to another to include from physical to virtual and virtual to cloud.

• The Contractor shall work with security components to resolve any security findings or vulnerabilities and apply fixes or updates as well as solutions to achieve closure.

• The Contractor shall liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.

• The Contractor shall ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.

• The Contractor shall integrate systems with Windows as it applies to authentication and core services dependencies such single sign-on and Active Directory.…