Senior Red Hat Linux Administrator

Senior Red Hat Linux Administrator

Category: Database Administration

Main location: United States, Maryland, Baltimore

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Employment Type: Full Time

CGI Federal is seeking a Senior Red Hat Linux Administrator to support the Social Security Administration's Division of Internet/Intranet Services (DIS) in Woodlawn, MD. This role provides advanced engineering, operations, and automation support across Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), multi cloud ACI environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), container platforms (Open Shift, Kubernetes, EKS), and DIS enterprise services including Internet Messaging, DNS, and security driven infrastructure operations.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in RHEL, automation at scale (Ansible/Tower/AAP, Satellite), cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and federal security compliance requirements.

This position is located in our Baltimore, MD office with work performed at client site in Woodlawn, MD.

• Administer, harden, and optimize Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 7/8/9+) systems for DIS operational environments.
• Build and maintain Ansible/Tower/AAP automation for OS configuration, patching, deployments, network/storage tasks, and cloud infrastructure provisioning.
• Operate and support DIS Internet Messaging platforms (Sendmail/Postfix, SMTP Auth, LDAP sync), including YAML/Ansible based server provisioning and Splunk log/report automation.
• Manage UNIX/BIND DNS zones, automate zone maintenance, integrate with AD DNS, and ensure compliance with SSA security and change management processes.
• Support and operate Open Shift, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS clusters, including deployment of OCI compliant base images, namespace administration, and containerized application support.
• Provide multi cloud ACI operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP—compute, storage, networking, AMIs, IAM, encryption, monitoring, and DR/failover design.
• Implement and support security operations including ATO documentation, POA&M tracking, continuous monitoring, vulnerability scanning, intrusion detection, event logging, and incident response.
• Maintain Red Hat Satellite for patching, inventory, and configuration compliance.
• Support virtualization infrastructure including VMware ESXi, vCenter, Horizon/VCF/Aria, Dell/EMC platforms, SAN administration, and backup/restore technologies.
• Produce and maintain engineering documentation, runbooks, system architecture references, and CAPRS/Service Now problem and change records.
• Participate in 24x7 on call rotations, respond to incidents within required SLAs, and support weekend/off hour maintenance windows.

• 7+ years administering RHEL 7/8/9+ including installation, configuration, optimization, security hardening, and backup/recovery.
• 7+ years troubleshooting performance issues (CPU, memory, I/O, networking).
• 5+ years supporting virtualized environments (VMware ESXi/vCenter/VCF/Aria, KVM).
• 5+ years developing automation using Ansible, Ansible Tower/AAP, Bash, Python, or Perl.
• Expertise in Linux command line operations and enterprise level troubleshooting.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• 5 years of experience working Virtual Platforms.
• 5 years of experience working with Ansible Playbooks.
• 3 years of experience with scripting languages for automation tasks and deployments (e.g., Bash Shell and Python).
• Expertise in the Linux command line environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Deep experience with RHEL tools including Ansible, Satellite, CoreOS, OCI image creation, and automation pipelines.
• Hands on experience supporting Kubernetes/Open Shift/EKS clusters.
• Advanced experience supporting AWS/Azure/GCP including compute, networking, IAM, encryption, DR/failover.
• Experience managing Internet Messaging (Sendmail/Postfix, LDAP, SMTP Auth), Splunk, and YAML/Ansible provisioning.
• Experience supporting UNIX/BIND DNS in multi platform environments.
• Strong knowledge of federal security requirements including ATO, POA&M, continuous monitoring, vuln scanning, IDS/IPS, and CAPRS/Service Now workflows.
• Experience automating cloud, server, network, and storage operations at enterprise scale.
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