Systems Administrator

Ubuntu RedHat System Administrator

Clearance Requirement: Secret

Aquila is seeking a Systems Administrator to contribute to one of this country's premier defense research organizations. As a part of our team, a successful candidate can make a significant, positive impact within a fast-paced, customer-focused, and technically innovative work environment. Aquila strives to deliver the best of the best in technical services to customers. Candidates that possess a love for technical challenges, a desire to constantly learn, and the desire to establish themselves as critical players within a team are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities:

• Provide systems administration, technical support, and end-user help desk support
• Deploy day-to-day imaging of systems per defined specifications
• Conduct patching and configuration management using tools such as Puppet, Ansible, and Red Hat Satellite
• Manage file systems, partitions, and other system reconfiguration and resource changes using LVM and disk utilities
• Support system backups
• Provide advanced technical support for customer environments and services
• Provide tier 2 and 3 supports for customer-reported issues and requests.
• Update, review and create customer documentation
• Execute Automation processes for Infrastructure setup (and maintaining processes)
• Setting up continuous build (CI/CD) environments to speed up software development and deployment.
• Collaborate with team to support the desktop users enterprise infrastructure and IT equipment
• Support Sr. System Administrator staff as needed with the development of automated methods for setting up and maintaining system configurations for customized configuration management, automation, and maintenance of Linux systems.
• Maintain and update documentation including standard operating procedures network drawings and configuration documentation
• Support software development teams in the installation maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization of a variety of development tools (version control, integrated development environments, continuous integration tools, and collaboration tools) development libraries kernels, and hardware drivers.

Required Skills:

• Strong knowledge of Red Hat / CentOS variants of Linux to include system administration user management, security hardening, backup procedures, disk and file management, software, and kernel compilation and installation, and system troubleshooting
• Proven ability to quickly and effectively learn new technologies
• Strong teamwork experience self-motivated and organized.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Windows desktop and server administration

Preferred Skills:

• Working knowledge of Windows and Mac desktop administration
• Experience with tools for system imaging, system configuration, configuration management, and security auditing
• Experience with enterprise-grade networking virtualization storage and or backups

Qualifications and Background:

• AS/BS or equivalent in related technical discipline.
• At least 5 years of applicable experience in a professional IT enterprise environment
• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Must be willing to undergo an extensive background investigation
• May be required to hold and maintain a government security clearance

Benefits and Perks:

Aquila team members experience the opportunity to be part of a fast-paced, customer-focused, and technically innovative work environment. Aquila strives to deliver the best of the best in technical services to our customers. Candidates that possess a love for technical challenges, a desire to constantly learn, and the desire to establish themselves as critical players within a team will enjoy calling Aquila Technology home.

Our Perks Include:

• PTO - 15 days (vacation/sick) 10 paid holidays - 6 standard (New Year’s, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas) - 4 floating holidays prorated based on your day of hire
• 1.5 paid days, or 12 hours, for approved volunteer work
• 1 week of paid maternity/paternity LOA after 1 year of Full-time employment
• Tuition & Training Reimbursement - 5K annually for pre-approved, job-related tuition, certification, or professional conferences

• 401K with Fidelity 100% immediate vesting; Plan eligibility begins 90 days following the date of hire. Aquila matches 100% the first 3%, then 50% on the next 2%. It ends up calculating to be total 4%, company matches when an employee at least contributes at 5%.

• Cell Phone & Internet Reimbursed up to $150 monthly to cover cell phone, data, and home internet expenses.
• Buy Your Own Device (BYOD) Allowance Reimbursed up to $1500 for the purchase of a qualified technology device. Eligible after 90 days of employment, and benefit renews every three years.

Travel: None

Telecommute: Primarily on site