Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking a Senior UNIX/Linux System Administrator to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals.
This position is part of team supporting our US Postal Service customer where you will join the Midrange System Administration teams that provides UNIX / Linux System Administration services for an assigned set of applications. The scope includes the full range of system life-cycle phases including, Build, Application /Service Provisioning, Operations and Decommissioning. In addition to normal administration duties this position will include working with the Disaster Recovery team to include support and testing.
NOTE: This position does allow for flexible remote work, but candidates MUST live within a reasonable driving / commute distance to San Mateo, CA. You will be required to be on-site for the first few days to pick up equipment and ensure that all access is available. In addition you will be required to report on-site as needed.
Day to Day Work Responsibilities:
- Unix / Linux System Administration
- Disaster Recovery testing and support
- Installation and maintenance of OS
- Contributor to Incident, Problem and Change Management processes.
- User Support / Problem resolution
- Support and participation in Disaster Recovery testing and activities
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree with 5 years experience or Master's degree with 3 years experience or HS Diploma/equivalent and 9 years experience
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- U.S. Citizenship or Green Card Holder (Must resided with the U.S. for the past 5 years with no more than 6 months outside travel of the U.S during this time frame)
- Pass both a client mandated clearance process to include drug screening, criminal history check and credit check
- Experience dealing with management of large (>1000 systems) environments
- Experience with Linux (SuSE and Red Hat)
- Prefer prior experience with disaster recovery exercises
- Have some understanding with configuration management of large environments, utilizing automation tools such as: Chef, Puppet, Ansible or other configuration management frameworks.
- Ability to take customer requirements and create scalable configuration models to support them
- Process Implementation and documentation
- Experience using Change/Incident Management tools (ServiceNow)
- Senior in Linux OS Administration
- Experience Setting up and Administrating a Disaster Recovery Environment for Monthly testing
- Experience with Control-M, setting up, Administrating and monthly handling
- Ability to troubleshoot problems from the Application tier, through the OS and Network tiers
- Unix Shell Scripting
- MUST be willing to work weekends, after hours and on-call as needed
Preferred Qualifications:
- Expertise with custom AutoYaST and Kickstart deployments
- Expertise with SMT and custom patch solutions for SuSE and Red Hat systems
- Expertise Ansible / Anisible Tower
- Expertise with Cassandra
- Expertise with Oracle CRS (installation/configuration/maintenance)
- Experience with Kafka
- Experience with Hadoop
- SOX/PCI Compliance Management
- Active USPS clearance and prior experience
Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Target Salary Range
$86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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