Linux System Engineer

Job Title : Systems Engineer (Virtual)

Location : Lexington MA

Job Type : W2 Contract

Background / Need :

Our team provides resources to assist with compliance execution reporting and vulnerabilityremediation activities. These services are offered across the Laboratory through the ISD Embedded System Administrator (ESA) Group. In addition the ETT Team is responsible for the overall operation of monitoring tools such as SolarWinds the Laboratory’s IT service management (ITSM) tool (Footprints) and the Laboratory’s central visibility tool—BigFix.

Must Have :

Bachelors of Computer Science or relevant technical field of study.

Experience providing support for RHEL & Ubuntu workstation and server.

Experience utilizing Ansible Automation Platform to support Linux systems.

Experience utilizing Satellite and Landscape to support Linux systems.

Experience with bash / shell Python or Perl scripting.

Understanding of Linux troubleshooting to include the boot process Kickstart building systemd monitoring of system resources kernel tuning system performance troubleshooting system calls and tracing.

Experience configuring storage for Linux systems (LVM file systems RAID storage encryption SAN NAS and NFS).

Package development and deployment (rpm yum dnf apt).

Strong overall network skills (package captures NIC latency tuning route tables and tracing subnetting firewall / iptable TCP / UDP / IP protocols).

Ability to work independently toward delivery of goals as well as collaborate in team efforts.

Excellent customer service skills.

Excellent presentation verbal and written communication skills.

Demonstrate the ability to learn new technologies and disciplines quickly.

Nice to Have :

Experience supporting DevSecOps environments (with Github Jfrog Jenkins GitLab Fortify Docker Kubernetes or SonarQube).

Experience supporting software deployment on Linux.

Experience supporting AWS cloud infrastructure.

Education & Experience : Bachelor's plus 10 years of relevant work experience.

Work Authorization : US Citizenship is required due to the nature of the work.

Clearance : Active Secret Clearance (OR a higher clearance).

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.”