Linux Engineer - Remote Eligible

Linux Engineer

SAIC is recruiting a Linux Engineer for one of our programs supporting the FDA. This role will be responsible for system administration of various Linux operating system facets within a VMware and AWS (Amazon Web Services) environment. Responsible for system maintenance, as well as application installation and configuration within a Linux Operating System. The engineer will be supporting a data center migration task to both a cloud environment and another data center. The engineer will have the ability to utilize several migration techniques to support this migration.

Key technologies required for this role are:

• RHEL/CentOS/Rocky 7+, Amazon Linux, Ubuntu 18+
• VMware vCenter/vSphere/Horizon View
• Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, RDS, IAM, VPCs, SecurityGroups, NACLS, etc.)
• Apache/NGINX Web Services
• Networking and related protocols (DNS, SMB, NFS, HTTP, SSH, etc.)
• SSO and MFA (AD, LDAP, SAML, OID)
• High Performance Computing/Cluster Computing
• Other desired technologies:
• Scripting (Shell and Python)
• Automated configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
• SLURM HPC Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Resolve issues and assess escalation to vendor support
• Have the willingness to accept challenges outside of your expertise and comfort zone
• Provide exemplary client communication skills
• Ability to organize and work on multiple projects or tasks while maintaining schedules, deliverables, and industry leading SLA and uptime

Qualifications:

Skills:

• Advanced knowledge of clustering services, load balancing and replication services
• Demonstrated experience in creating documentation of designs and solutions
• Exposure to application, database, storage and network configuration within a Linux operating system administration
• Ability to effectively communicate complex enterprise solutions to internal staff and customer
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Singularity, Podman, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Fargate)

Education and Clearance:

• BS or MS in Computer Science/Computer Information Systems/Engineering
• 5-7+ years of relevant work experience in Linux Administration
• 1+ years of experience working in an AWS cloud environment
• Desired - One Linux related certification, AWS Solutions Architect, or SysAdmin associate certification
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.