Senior Systems Engineer II (Unix/Linux)

ECS is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer II (Unix/Linux) to work in our Pocatello, ID office.   Please Note: This position is contingent upon additional funding.

***This position is contingent upon the availability of the role and the ability to attain a Top Secret Clearance.***   

The candidate shall be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base operating system, but for all support libraries, components, and application dependencies. 

 Position requirements and duties of the Senior Systems Engineer II (Unix/Linux): 

• Responsible for the engineering design, installation, implementation, and configuration as well as ongoing support of the Unix/Linux Infrastructure. 
• Possess advanced knowledge and skill for all Linux environments. 
• Create and maintain bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate distribution and patch levels of Linux and network configuration, using tools that include Satellite Server. 
• Provision/configure required software onto servers, such as web servers and databases. 
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the Linux infrastructure. 
• Monitor and correct server issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks. 
• Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure. 
• Possess excellent knowledge base in DNS, DHCP, LDAP, SMTP, and integration with Windows to solve functional or technical issues. 
• Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools. 
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability. 
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes. 
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies. 
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks. 
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems. 
• Provide 3rd level of support. 
• Build new baselines with the appropriate security and access controls to include DISA STIGS and required security controls. Updated baselines will be required quarterly and new versions within 90 days of the manufacturer’s release to production and full DISA STIGS. 
• Engineer multi factor authentication between Linux environments and the enterprise Windows infrastructure components. 
• Engineer solutions for baselines to operate in full standalone mode, domain mode, and fully integrated mode for all classification levels and enclaves. 
• Work with the developers to transition applications from one platform to another to include from physical to virtual and virtual to cloud. 
• Work with security components to resolve any security findings or vulnerabilities and apply fixes or updates as well as solutions to achieve closure.