Peraton · 1 month ago
Systems Administration, Senior Associate
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence across the globe. They are seeking a Linux System Administrator to maintain Linux-based environments for their web-based applications, ensuring compliance with security standards and supporting various teams with deployment and maintenance tasks.
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Responsibilities
Provide input and guidance of architecture decisions with regard to middle-tier changes
Evaluate new technologies, determine viability of solutions and make recommendations
Partner with data center operations and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless deployments, proper documentation and support for applications
Maintain several environments, keeping them in-step with security changes and patches, including operating systems, databases, and all vendor updates, while adhering to certification standards and change procedures
Perform builds and deployments in support of testing upcoming releases, including submitted changes and duties related to configuration management in a development environment
Support development teams, implementation teams and help-desk teams with requested issues, both local and remote to the site
Stand up, maintain, backup, tune, and secure required systems needed for any environment. This will include physical and virtual servers, operating systems, middle-tier software, database software and data, LDAP servers, HTTP servers, firewall, proxy servers, printers, routers, switches, and all other components of a sub-net and the accompanying security
Occasionally provide after-hours or weekend troubleshooting support to address urgent issues that may arise in the production deployment of a web-based application used by over 150,000 DoD employees
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree and minimum of 2 years of experience or 6 years with a HS Degree/Diploma
Understanding of Linux Operating System administration in server environments
Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux server (RHEL)
Linux-based shell scripting experience
Some SQL familiarity
Experience maintaining databases
Has, or is capable and motivated, to obtain the CISSP certification
Must be US Citizen
Preferred
Ability to manage/administer one or more of the following within a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server-based environment:
Git administration and use
Oracle Database installation and administration
SAP Business Objects installation and administration
Apache Tomcat middle-tier application server administration
Apache HTTP server administration
NTP server
IPSEC firewall
Java application builds and deployments to Tomcat
Postfix and Dovecot E-Mail server administration
Spam and anti-virus filtering software
Benefits
Overtime
Shift differential
Discretionary bonus
Company
Peraton
Peraton Fearlessly solving the toughest national security challenges.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageRecent News
2025-09-25
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