Sr. Enterprise Linux Administrator

Job Title: Sr. Enterprise Linux Administrator
Clearance Required: Public Trust
Work Location: Hybrid; Asheville, NC & Remote (applicant must be based within a commutable distance (1-2 hours) of Asheville, NC or willing to relocate)

We are actively seeking a System Administrator to join our current team on an active project supporting a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) IT Support Services contract. The AOI team provides data center management and consolidation, cloud migration, and associated IT services. The Systems Administrator will be responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring the infrastructure; also, to collaborate with other team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes. You will become an integral part of a close-knit team, making every problem of the platform a problem of your own, and solving them accordingly. Also innovating to come up with infrastructure improvements. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecting and designing and building new systems
• Manage and maintain Infrastructure with Ansible Codebase. Contribute to ongoing platform within IaC approach
• Communicate to IT leadership and our Business partners regarding production issues
• Identify and implement methods to measure, monitor and report on SLAs and team productivity metrics
• Participate in Incident, Problem, and Change ticket management
• Automates routine processes and identifies and installs tools to improve daily operations
• Implementation of preventative measures to ensure application reliability, availability, and uptime

 Required Qualifications:  

• Education
  • High School diploma or equivalent required
• Experience/Skills:
  • Hands on exposure to evaluating and implementing new tools, automation and integration is a must
  • Demonstrated knowledge and working experience in both Linux (RHEL/CentOS 7.x+) and container technology
  • Linux administration in Virtualized environments (KVM, RHV-Ovirt)  Strong scripting experience. Bash, Python or Go preferred
  • Experience in configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
  • Experience with web servers Tomcat, Apache or Nginx. Familiarity with web-based technologies, including but not limited to, reverse proxy servers, SSL certificate configuration.
  • Storage knowledge and experience with filesystems configuration along with Logical Volume Manage (LVM) strong knowledge of NFS and/or Ceph
  • A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  • Takes ownership of assignments, working with minimal direct supervision
  • Ability to effectively communicate (verbal and written correspondence) in a professional and courteous manner with technical and non-technical personnel
  • Excellent interpersonal, organizational and facilitation skills 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science, preferred 
• Exposure to Jenkins, Gitlab runners, Grafana, Elasticsearch and Prometheus
• Experience with cloud infrastructures, AWS or other cloud providers 

Preferred Certifications:

• RedHat Certified System Administrator and similar
• AWS certifications 

Salary and Benefit Information:

The likely salary range for this position is $40,000 - $115,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position and could fall outside of this range.

Joining the Alpha Omega team entitles you to participate in all retirement benefits, plans of deferred compensation, health and insurance benefits, and other such benefits as set forth in the company’s policy and benefits manuals. See below, to name a few:

• PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave
• Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company’s holiday schedule each year)
• Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage under the HDHP health plan)
• Life Insurance, STD/LTD term disability coverage, with employer paid premiums
• 401 (k) plan with