Company:
Vexterra Group
Location: Bethesda
Closing Date: 01/11/2024
Salary: £150 - £200 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Vexterra Group is currently searching for a Senior Systems Integrator Engineer to provide the following systems support in Reston VA or Bethesda, MD office:
You will work closely with other infrastructure and network engineers, system engineers and O&M team members on the following key tasks:
DUTIES
- Perform Linux builds, installs, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of both Linux and Windows platforms to include but not limited to base configuration, security and system patching, performance monitoring, etc.
- Provide O/S hardening (STIG, OpenSCAP, ACAS) and system patching.
- Develop server builds for virtual and physical environments.
- Manage, maintain, configure, and deploy system integration tools such as Kubernetes, Rancher, Helm.
- Support management and integration of DevOps tools such as Jenkins.
- Deploy, operate, diagnose, and maintain containerized (Docker) microservices across orchestrated (Kubernetes) environments.
- Maintain and orchestrate services and procedures for a big data pipeline which includes Kafka, Elasticsearch, and several in-house written Python/Java running on Kubernetes.
- Develop scripts to monitor and check health of the deployed pipeline.
- Maintain and develop DevOps automation using tools (e.g., Saltstack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
- Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments.
- Set up administrator and service accounts, maintain system documentation, tune system performance, install system wide software, validate and implement critical system patches, and allocate mass storage space.
- Improve existing infrastructure to incorporate latest technology best practices and cross application integrations.
- Participate as needed in all phases of software development with emphasis on the planning, analysis, integration, and documentation phases.
- Manage the code transfer and modification.
- Conduct automated unit and system integration tests to identify and provide feedback on failed modules and components.
- Participate in code design reviews and updates.
- Support CM activities.
- Administer system to system data transfer and integration process.
REQUIREMENTS
- A Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, or a closely related discipline or 4 years of additional relevant professional experience.
- At least 6 years of relevant professional experience.
- Must have an active TS/SCI with Counterintelligence Poly.
- Experience in system integrations testing through a full system development life cycle, including implementing test plans, test cases and test processes.
- Experience with security requirements derivation.
- Experience documenting test results for corrective actions, reporting and audits.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work in a team and also a self-starter who can work on their own.
- Expertise in configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of Linux (RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu) to include kernel panic recovery; Configuring SSSD, AIDE, SELinux, auditd; and O/S hardening – STIG, OpenSCAP, ACAS.
- Highly proficient with Patching: yum repositories, APT repositories.
- Highly proficient with Server builds: virtual and physical.
- Experience with installing and deploying DevOps tools, examples could include Chef, Puppet, Git, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, Salt, etc.
- Knowledge of Atlassian software such as JIRA, JIRA Service Desk, Confluence, Bitbucket, HipChat, etc.
- DoD 8570 IAT II Certification (e.g. Security +).
PREFERRED SKILLS
- Kubernetes, Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Linux, Git, Python, Elasticsearch, Logstash, IPA, AWS, OpenStack, Java, Kafka, Hadoop, etc.
- Experience establishing large computer clusters.
- Experience in continuous configuration automation (CCA) methods for providing a flexible, programmatic platform for deploying and managing the configuration of infrastructure and application resources.
- Experience in applying both agent-based and agentless (e.g. SSH) methods to event-driven orchestration and remote execution for configuration management.
- Experience in applying automated configuration management and deployment tools (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Salt) for configuration automation, cloud control, and event-driven orchestration.
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