Systems Administrator (LINUX)

Date Posted:

2024-12-05

Country:

United States of America

Location:

FL807: 640 Roberts Ave, Pensacola FL 640 Roberts Avenue Corry Station, Pensacola, FL, 32511 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 is seeking a Sr. Linux Systems Administrator to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

Job Responsibilities:

Managerial:

ServiceNow Ticket Distribution 

Assign to the proper team member of PIE the tickets that NOC assigns for incidents 

Re-assign tickets that are not correctly assigned  

Work with NOC Chief to validate the correct priority of tickets  

Follow up on tickets that have been around the queue for a long period 

Weekly CMDA updates 

Prepare the weeks high and critical incidents as well as advisories for weekly meeting 

Support other ARTs and sections with PIE resources 

Discuss with and assign team members to support PI tasks 

Work with other sections for support on joint applications and OS’s 

Work with PIE PM/PPM when issues arise and assign the correct folks to tasks 

Maintain onboarding 

AIS2 onboarding has a high priority and very visible 

Make sure AIS2 tickets are completed 

Make sure training takes place within the team for others to assist 

LRA Onboarding 

LRA requires diligent onboarding tasks to be completed.   

Assign LRA and new team members to be trained with onboarding 

Personnel 

Maintain timecards for PIE folks 

Make sure PIE folks are staying up with their training requirements 

Assist PIE folks with issues pertaining to both RTX and DHS 

Council and support personnel with job requirements/training 

Technical:

Linux Systems Administrator applies current technologies to the design, development, evaluation and integration of computer information systems and networks to maintain system security.

Works with commercial computer product vendors in the design and evaluation of state-of-the-art secure COTS applications, operating systems, networks and database products and technology.

Provides security engineering and integration services to internal customers.

Involved in a wide range of issues including secure architectures, secure electronic data traffic, network security, information security and privacy.

Develops security systems for any manual or automated systems environments.

Responsible for ensuring the protection of company data against unauthorized disclosure, accidental or intentional loss of data, or unauthorized modification.

This position requires shift work with possible nights and weekends.

Required Skills:

Must be a U.S. citizen

Must have a current Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.

Must be able to obtain DHS suitability prior to starting employment.

Knowledge of Red Hat version 6 or 7(rhel6/rhel7) with the ability to engineer, install, administer and maintain

Skilled in Linux-related scripting (Bash, Perl, Python, etc.)

Proficiency with configuration management using Ansible or Puppet

Kernel infrastructure understanding in a Linux environment

Experience analyzing and evaluating the security of new and existing IT systems and the procedures to protect information system assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure, or destruction

Experience analyzing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of Information technology and security contro