Job Description
**Description**
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.
REQNUMBER: 2510945
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