HPC - Senior System Administrator - VMware, Linux, Configuration at Erias Ventures, LLC Sarasota, FL

HPC - Senior System Administrator - VMware, Linux, Configuration job at Erias Ventures, LLC. Sarasota, FL.

Erias Ventures was founded to serve its customers with an entrepreneurial mindset. We value creative problem-solving ,
open communication , and empowering our employees to make decisions and put forth new ideas. Our staff includes technical experts working across multiple disciplines, bringing diverse perspectives to every project. We are seeking engineers who wish to grow their careers and want to become part of a technically strong and growth-oriented company focused on bringing innovative solutions to the difficult mission problems facing our customers.

This Systems Administrator's responsible for overseeing the most critical aspects of the HPC and Datacenter Infrastructure. They lead strategic planning, architecture design, and the deployment of enterprise-scale projects. They solve the organization’s most complex technical issues, contribute to IT strategy, and drive innovations to ensure the robustness, security, and efficiency of the infrastructure. In this senior role, professionals are expected to manage essential infrastructure services, ensuring high availability and performance of data center services, physical and virtual server-class systems and storage.

They are expected to lead medium-to-large scale projects, design and implement system policies, conduct advance troubleshooting, and are pivotal in the direct recovery efforts during critical system failures. They also mentor junior staff members. Professionals in this role are expected to have the ability to work alone and as part of larger team to complete projects on time.

A current Top-Secret/SCI with polygraph security clearance is required. Candidates cannot be sponsored or nominated for a government security clearance under this position.

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, and have ten (10) years of demonstrable experience in system administration and support of a large client-server based IT enterprise. Or the individual shall have five (5) years of full time computer science work that can be substituted for the Bachelor’s Degree, and have ten (10) years of demonstrable experience in system administration and support of a large client-server based IT enterprise.

An industry recognized professional certification may substitute as one year experience.

Required skills:

• CompTIA Security+ CE
• Mastery of the VMware ecosystem, and have extensive experience in Hyper-converged Infrastructure environments across multiple security enclaves and data centers. Knowledge of Performance Optimized Datacenter (PODs), CentOS and RHEL 7/8/9 system administration, and VDI (specifically VMware Horizon, Citrix VDI). They need in-depth experience with Active Directory, LDAP and Centrify for identity management, Infoblox for core network services, and proficiency in using Nagios and Splunk for comprehensive system monitoring and analytics.
  
  Advanced skills in automation shell scripting, automation, streamlining, and system configuration using tools like Salt and Ansible.
• Experience with Linux provisioning server tools such as Kickstart and Cobbler to facilitate the automation of network-based system installations of multiple computer operating systems.
• Strategize and supervise extensive security protocols, utilizing Tenable Nessus for comprehensive vulnerability assessments and proactive security enhancements on Linux and Windows platforms.
• Govern account and access management landscapes using Centrify an Active Directory, ensuring stringent security compliance and efficient user privilege orchestration.
• Innovate security mitigation methodologies, fortifying enterprise infrastructure against evolving cyber threats.
• Enterprise-level management of Hyper-converged Infrastructure, vendor hardware and software across multiple data centers.
• Experience using Atlassian’s team collaboration software suite like Jira and Confluence to help organize teams, discuss and complete shared work.
• Lead cross-functional collaborations with network, storage, and Sec Ops teams, orchestrating major initiatives, critical outage…