Requirements

TS/SCI with poly required

• Three (3) years experience is required
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics is highly desired and will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience.
• Shall have experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large scale cloud computing systems including familiarity with distributed systems for storage and retrieval of data e.g. Hadoop, Cassandra, Scality, Swift, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or another other comparable technology for big data management or High performance computing.
• Shall have demonstrated ability to work within a pre-defined team structure, follow SOP’s, communicate effectively, accept constructive feedback and receive technical guidance and advice from senior level technical resources.
• Shall have demonstrated a willingness to learn new technologies and leverage senior level resources to expand current technical foundation using team structure.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex tasks, show a willingness to educate and train more junior technical resources.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, communicate, lead and oversee complex technical tasks requiring interaction with multiple groups.
• Shall have five (5) years experience writing software scripts using scripting languages including bash, perl, or python.
• Shall have seven (7) years experience demonstrating a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of core components of the Linux operating system including the management of user and group accounts in LDAP configuration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP.
• Shall have demonstrated experience with configuration management tools including Puppet and SALT.
• Expert understanding of the end to end Linux PXE/Network provisioning process to include familiarity with Anaconda Kickstart configurations, RAID controller utilities, TFTP images, and disk detect scripts.
• Experience accessing and troubleshooting systems via remote utilities to perform hardware diagnosis and repair including VNC, serial over LAN interfaces, and IPMI, BIOS-level configuration.
• Understanding of overall corporate architecture as well as familiarity with openSSL and Java keystore manipulation.
• Expert in troubleshooting commodity hardware platforms including previous experiences with SGI/HP hardware including SGI’s J series.
• Network troubleshooting experience including but not limited to use of ping, traceroute, tcpdump
• Hardware troubleshooting skills including recovery from hardware failure
• Understanding of the DHCP handshake process and pxe boot process
• Understanding of managing a distributed environment including familiarity with pdsh
• Working knowledge of network backup solutions
• Configuration and management of syslog
• Basic Unix experience with account creation, pki, data storage and management
• Virtual host creation, management experience
• Shell scripting experience preferred languages are python, perl, bash
• NDS and F5 BigIP DNS management experience
• Cloudera Admin Certification or equivalent

Desired:

• Advanced knowledge of SSH tunneling and protocols including the implementation of dynamic SOCKS proxies as well as other ssh-based utilities, including rysn, pdsh, pdcp, and WinSCP.
• Basic understanding of low level network concepts including vlans, port channel bonding and layer2/layer 3 switch interactions.
• Familiarity with software load balancers for large scale webservice implementations including haproxy and nginx
• Experience with Kubernetes orchestration services and Docker images.
• Experience with log aggregation and search tools including ElasticSearch, logstatsh, filebeats, Grafana, and rsyslog.
• Advanced networking experience with routing protocols, network diagnostics, and troubleshooting
• HDFS experience
• F5 experience/certification
• Virtualization experience

Benefits

• Health & Life Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• 401K Retirement Plan with Matching
• Tuition Assistance
• Vacation and Sick Leave
• Hiring Bonuses
• Referral Recruitment Program