Black Canyon Consulting LLC · 2 months ago
Senior Linux System Administrator
Bethesda, MD
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expBlack Canyon Consulting (BCC) is actively looking for a Senior Linux System Administrator to support their work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The role involves managing Linux systems, developing standard operating procedures, and providing support to internal developers and researchers.
ConsultingInformation TechnologyProject Management
Responsibilities
Develop and document standard operating procedures for a wide range of tasks, such as systems provisioning, installation, upgrading, and migration; host and service monitoring; configuration management; problem troubleshooting; and other aspect of systems administration
Manage and configure services, software, and hardware configurations
Take direction from the team lead and work independently within a team-environment
Mentor junior team members
Learn new technologies and skills
Develop and maintain custom tools in Python, Perl, Ruby, and Bash to automate managing the UNIX infrastructure
Use Puppet to maintain thousands of physical and virtual Linux CentOS systems and associated applications
Develop policies and procedures for standard systems administration tasks (packaging, OS installs, patch management)
Build open-source software from source code
Document procedures, systems, services, and software. Provide ad-hoc training where appropriate
Provide UNIX support to NCBI's internal developers and researchers
Provide technical solutions to a wide range of problems and user requests through an established trouble ticketing system
Troubleshoot, research, design, and implement solutions to complex systems problems while accounting for technical limits, overall cost, and security policies
Assist with planning and implementation of major OS upgrade, deployments, and architectural changes
Qualification
Required
Willingness to learn new technologies and skills
Demonstrate significant experience in Linux Systems Administration (7+ years)
Comfortable with Unix command line tools
Highly versed in Linux administration and best practices
Fluent in programming/scripting skills for automation in at least two of Bash, Ruby, Python, and Perl. (Other languages also helpful, but not required.)
General understanding of Linux internals (system calls, file systems, processes, etc)
General understanding of TCP/IP and related protocols (HTTP, FTP, NFS, etc…)
Comfortable working with users of varying levels of IT knowledge
Experience with building open-source software from source code
Able to work with minimum supervision on assigned tasks, and work with others both within and outside of the team
Strong communication skills, especially with regards to documentation
Preferred
Experience in a complex, dynamic, production, public-facing Linux environment
Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, GKE, or similar technologies
Knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS and GCP
Experience with automated configuration management, such as Puppet (preferred), Ansible, Chef, bcfg2, CFEngine, etc
Experience with version control. (Git is preferred, but not required.)
Experience supporting large web application environments and development
Experience with enterprise network architectures
Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision coverage
401k plan with employer contribution
Paid holidays
Vacation
Tuition reimbursement
Company
Black Canyon Consulting LLC
Black Canyon Consulting, LLC (BCC) is a privately held, Woman-Owned Small Business, whose team of professionals bring over 125 years of experience providing innovative, tactical, and strategic Program and IT Management Support Services.
51-200 employees
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