Sr Systems Administrator Cloud (Cloud/LINUX)

Date Posted:

2024-09-19

Country:

United States of America

Location:

VA543: 22270 Pacific Blvd, Dulles 22270 Pacific Boulevard Building CC5, Sterling, VA, 20166-6924 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

You have been redirected to RTX’s career page as we have recently transitioned from RTX to become a standalone company, which provides us with greater autonomy and opportunities for growth. As a prospective employee of Nightwing, you’ll have the chance to contribute to our continued success and shape the future of our cybersecurity, intelligence, and services offerings.

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

NightWing is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment, including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.  NightWing Cyber Protection Solutions (CPS) is seeking a Sr. Prin. Systems Administrator to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities. 

Responsibilities Include:

- Working alone on individual projects while being involved in larger projects as a team effort with minimal supervision from the lead systems engineer.

- Supporting the design and implementation of COTS-based solutions on single instances or across clustered devices.

- Supporting the development of system security documentation on both new and deployed solutions for Linux OS DISA STIG.

-Serves as a member of an Agile/ DevOps (DSO) deployment team to support automated deployment and maintenance of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure through the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Amazon Kubernetes Service (EKS).

- Supporting the operations and maintenance schedule.

Required Skills:

- Must be a US Citizen

- Active Secret clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.

- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

- 10+ years of directly relevant systems administration experience including hands-on experience with one or more of the following: Linux preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 or 7

- Must have in-depth knowledge of OS installations, security hardening and maintenance

- Strong experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform capabilities, including good understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Framework

- Experience working in AWS via the CLI and management console

Knowledgeable on cloud native capabilities, Identity and Access Management (IAM), certificate management, Virtual Private Network (VPN) access to AWS Virtual Private Clouds  (VPC)  and cloud based security controls

- Solid experience configuring Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)

- Comfortable with building AWS virtual servers from scratch

- Ability to deploy and integrate new applications that may be requested

- Capable of quickly learning new applications that run on various operating systems for testing and deployment

- Experience with administration and management of servers to include installation, configuration, optimization, backup & recovery

- Experience with performance tuning & troubleshooting, identifying and resolving contention in CPU, memory, networking, disk I/O, etc.

- Integration & implementation experience with various services, LDAP, RedHat Identity Management (IDM), NFS, Bind, Apache, and other core technologies

- Familiarity of configuration management

- Experience with Puppet, Chef or Ansible

Desired Skills:

-  Experience working in an agile development environment

- Comfortable with multilevel security systems, SELinux, and/or Cross Domain Solutions is a plus

- Experience with physical and virtual (VMware) RHEL servers including Red Hat Satellite Servers

- Experience with data orchestration software such as Apache NiFi or StreamSets is a plus

- Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments

- Experience with technical implementation projects

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