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Linux Systems Administrator

Equiliem
United States, Massachusetts, Lexington
Mar 03, 2025
Secret Cleared Linux Systems Administrator in Lexington, MA!

*this position requires an active secret clearance*

Candidates must be local to LExington, MA and able to come onsite 3 days/week

In addition to the experience outlined in the qualifications section of the job post, experience is required in:

-Strong experience with Linux as a desktop and server OS, including provisioning, securing, and maintenance with an emphasis on CentOS, RHEL 8+, Rocky, and Ubuntu20+

-Administering and supporting Windows and MacOS desktop operating systems

-A focus on users with the ability to support developers and researchers with desktop configurations, server installations, applications, and technologies

-Experience with system deployment to bare metal, VMware ESXi/vCenter, and AWS environments using Foreman, kickstart, Ansible, packer, terraform

-Experience configuring and administering Foreman for Linux deployment and maintenance

-Experience with container technologies like Docker or Podman

-Scripting with UNIX shell and Powershell

-Basic hardware deployment and repair experience with desktops, laptops, and servers

-Investigating and deploying new tools and technologies to improve services and support and enable modern practices for research programs

-Working in an Active Directory or LDAP infrastructure and integrating with web applications using SSO

-Implementing compliance following NIST 800-171, CMMC, DISA STIG, or RMF requirements

-Experience administering and using GitLab, or other Continuous Integration services

-Experience working with GitHub, Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence), Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook), SAP

-Ability to recommend hardware and software technology solutions, deploy, and maintain them independently as well as with support of the IT team

-Working in a small team, wearing many hats

-Manage and prioritize long-term environment improvement projects concurrently with short term support needs

-Candidates must be enthusiastic, innovative and motivated self-starters able to work independently to complete tasks and meet goals.

-Candidates must also be able to work within a team to achieve project success.

-Candidates must possess strong oral and written communications skills, and must be able to present findings/results to internal and external organizations.

Preferred Skills:

-Server and storage networking including management of DHCP, DNS, VLANs, firewalls, and TLS

-VMware ESXi and VCenter administration

-Deployment automation with automation tools such as Vagrant, Puppet, Chef, or cloud-init

-Experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, helm charts

-Configuring and maintaining monitoring with Icinga2

-Programming with a language such as Perl, Python

-Experience administering CI/CD tools such as GitLab, Artifactory

-Experience deploying and using centralized logging tools and enterprise backup solutions

-Basic database administration with PostgreSQL or MySQL

-Experience with AWS virtualization, networking, storage and user access

-Server purchasing, racking, and networking in a datacenter environment

Other:

Clearance: Active secret clearance is preferred; however, the group will consider candidates with the ability to obtain an interim secret clearance for start of the assignment.

Interview process: Initial short phone interview (zoom) with hiring manager. If candidate advances to next round, larger group interview with technical team.

Work Location - Hybrid: Candidates should expect to be onsite 3 days a week (on average).
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