Senior UNIX System Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot, and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and Solaris UNIX servers.
• Monitor and tune system performance to ensure optimal operations across a mixed customer environment.
• Plan and implement new system hardware and software, including lifecycle management and firmware version control.
• Create, maintain, and improve technical instructions, operating procedures, and policies.
• Perform system hardening and report on security and operational status.
• Identify system improvements and lead new software/hardware integrations.
• Generate and analyze utilization reports using existing tools to guide problem identification and resolution.
• Provide support and periodic preventive maintenance in a data center environment.
• Demonstrate and implement technologies to enhance efficiency, scalability, and performance of the current environment.
• Configure and maintain key services such as DNS, SFTP, SMTP, and NTP.
• Manage a large pool of local users via command line and enforce access control policies.
• Document and execute repeatable processes and disaster recovery protocols via SOPs.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience

• Five (5) years as a UNIX Systems Administrator or IT Engineer, including task automation.
• Three (3) years of experience in patch management (YUM, RPM) and applying security updates.
• Three (3) years working in complex networking environments, using VLANs and tools like ifconfig, netstat, ssh, and telnet.
• Three (3) years of system hardening using firewalld/iptables and host configurations.
• Three (3) years managing local user accounts via CLI.
• Three (3) years creating, maintaining, and executing SOPs for repeatable processes and recovery operations.
• Three (3) years configuring and maintaining services: DNS, SFTP, SMTP, and NTP.
• Strong team collaboration and communication skills.
• Three (3) years working with SELinux (basic and advanced configuration).
• Experience with Cybersecurity patching, STIGs/SRGs, RMF, SCA-V, and CORA.
• Experience with large-scale hardware/software deployments across geographically dispersed sites.
• Familiarity with emerging network and infrastructure management tools and best practices.

Certifications

• CompTIA Security+.
• Computing Environment (CE) Certification (e.g., Red Hat) can be waived for 30 days post-start.

Clearance

• Secret - IT-II Non-Critical Sensitive clearance or Tier 3 (T3) investigation

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

We are seeking a Senior UNIX System Engineer to join our team supporting an ITES task order.

Tek Synap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

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