Cloud System Administrator

DCCA is a veteran‑owned IT business specializing in providing innovative solutions to a variety of government agencies and commercial enterprises since 1982. DCCA is proud to offer career growth opportunities and a competitive compensation and benefits package. Visit our website at:

Candidate must have an active TS/SCI w/ Poly

For over 40 years, DCCA has provided a broad range of IT services to government agencies and commercial enterprises, helping them to feel confident in their IT infrastructure. With DCCA, these organizations can be confident in the flexibility and skill of their IT partners, allowing them to upgrade their technology quickly and efficiently. Better yet, thanks to DCCA’s successful track record, clients can rest assured knowing DCCA can tackle any problem with ease, allowing them to focus on the work that matters.

Internally, DCCA prides itself on a culture built on integrity and inclusivity, allowing its employees to build lasting skills and relationships. As a veteran‑owned business, DCCA knows the importance of recruiting employees with a wide range of backgrounds, allowing every problem to be approached by a diverse array of perspectives. Join us and be part of a team that has a people‑first mentality and a dedication to excellence.

The Cloud System Administrator provides support for implementation and troubleshooting and maintenance on large clusters.

• Shall have demonstrated ability to work within a pre-defined mission-focused team structure, follow SOPs, communicate effectively, accept constructive feedback, and receive technical guidance and advice from senior-level technical resources.
• Shall have demonstrated a willingness to learn new technologies and leverage senior-level resources to expand the current technical foundation using team structure.
• Shall have two (2) years of experience writing software scripts using scripting languages, including bash, perl, or python.
• Shall have three (3) years of experience demonstrating a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of core components of the Linux operating system including managing user and group accounts in LDAP, configuration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP.
• Shall have demonstrated experience with configuration management tools, including Puppet and SALT.
• Shall have experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large-scale cloud computing systems, including familiarity with distributed systems e.g. Hadoop, CASSANDRA, SCALITY, SWIFT, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or other comparable technology for big data management or high‑performance computing.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex tasks, and show a willingness to educate and train more junior technical resources.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, communicate, lead and oversee complex technical tasks requiring interaction with multiple groups.
• Advanced knowledge of SSH tunneling and protocols including the implementation of dynamic SOCKS proxies as well as other ssh‑based utilities, including rysn, pdsh, pdcp, and WinSCP.
• Understanding of the end‑to‑end Linux PXE/Network provisioning process to include familiarity with Anaconda Kickstart configurations, RAID controller utilities, TFTP images, and disk detection scripts.
• Experience accessing and troubleshooting systems via remote utilities to perform hardware diagnosis and repair, including VNC, serial over LAN interfaces, and IPMI, BIOS‑level configuration.
• Understanding of overall corporate architecture as well as familiarity with OpenSSL and Java keystore manipulation.
• Basic understanding of low‑level network concepts, including VLANs, port‑channel bonding and layer‑2/layer‑3 switch interactions.
• Experience troubleshooting commodity hardware platforms, including previous experiences with SGI/HP hardware including SGI’s J series.
• Familiarity with software load balancers for large‑scale web service implementations including haproxy and nginx, experience with Kubernetes orchestration services and Docker images.
• Experience with log aggregation and search tools including Elastic Search, logstash, filebeat, Grafana, and rsyslog.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or…