Cloud System Administrator Security Clearance

The Cloud System Administrator provides support for implementation, 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.
• Education:
  
  Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics is highly desired and considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience.
• Hadoop/Cloud System Administrator Certification or comparable Cloud System/Service Certification is desired.
• Shall have experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large-scale cloud computing systems, including familiarity with distributed systems such as 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 detect 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 open
  
  SSL 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 Elasticsearch, Logstash, Filebeat, Grafana, and rsyslog.

The proposed salary range for this position in Maryland is $87,000 to $192,000. Final salary will be determined based on various factors.

Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets.