What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Linux Systems Engineer position at teKnoluxion?
Overview
Location: Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO
Security Clearance Required: TS (SCI eligibility) **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**
teKnoluxion provides the Defense and Intelligence Communities technical experts in the filds of Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Operations, and Cloud Services Management & Consulting. Our goal is not to simply support efforts, but to ignite a technology revolution, bridging the growing technology gap between the Government and commercial space.
Are you ready to test your abilities as a Linux Systems Engineer and team member in a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment? Would you like to make an immediate and direct impact in your job? Join a dedicated team supporting the UDS contract at NGA.
Responsibilities
What you get to do every day:
- Design and define system architecture for new or existing computer systems
- Contribute to completion of specific engineering programs and projects
- Develop solutions to a variety of complex engineering problems
- Perform complex systems design, development, and integration from the start of a systems life cycle to the end
- Oversee complex infrastructure including installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools
- Perform complex systems modeling, simulation, and analysis
- Prepare and maintain documentation for processes and procedures related to engineering projects
- Maintain current knowledge of rapidly changing technology
- May coach and provide guidance to less-experienced professionals
- May serve as a team or task lead
Qualifications
Clearance: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**
Education/Experience:
- Requires BA/BS or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
- 8 years of related experience
Required Skills:
- Linux systems administration
What is ideal?
A deep expertise in one of the following areas and working knowledge of one or more of the other following:
- Operational support
- Virtualization technologies (VMware, virtual networking, vROPS, XenServer/XCP-ng)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, YUM, Satellite, Capsule technologies
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Ceph storage platform
- GitLab
- Scripting / Coding (Bash, Python, etc.)
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- Helm charts
- Automation
- Intelligence Community Experience preferred
What you can expect from us
- Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by teKnoluxion through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses
- You’ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community
- Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match and potential Profit Sharing, Universal Leave, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more!
- Compensation is unique to each candidate and compensation packages are based on education, experience, and other requirements.
