Linux Engineer/Linux Sys Admin II

$100,000 - $125,000/Yr

Global Technology Resources - Colorado Springs, CO

Full-time - Entry Level

Colorado Springs, CO

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Linux Engineer II role at Zivaro Inc. involves supporting the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex-Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (NCMC-ITW/AA) system. This position focuses on maintaining and enhancing complex Linux environments, ensuring the reliability and performance of critical air, missile, and space defense systems. The engineer will work on system administration, integration, and troubleshooting, while also managing software deployments and compliance with security standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly skilled Systems Administration/Integration to support complex Linux environments
• Administer/update/troubleshoot air warning, missile warning & space defense systems development/test environments
• Recommend and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system
• Set up and manage Linux and Windows systems, applications and environments
• Build, configure, troubleshoot, and integrate new and existing servers
• Set up administrator and service accounts; maintain system documentation
• Troubleshoot network hardware and software applications, OS upgrades, and security systems
• Monitor performance, system usage, and back-up and recovery
• Manage storage appliances and configurations; VMware analysis and optimization
• Implement Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and agile system development
• Support operating system patching in compliance with security policy and procedures
• Manage tickets and resolution of issues identified by lab users

Requirements

• Experience with customer site installations, and experience with both RedHat and Windows system administration
• Monitoring system performance
• Installing upgrades and advising on system upgrades
• IAM Level 2
• Experience in Systems Administration of complex applications on Unix/Linux platforms
• Linux/Unix system administration including installing and configuring systems from the OS level up
• Experience with Information Assurance policies and procedures
• Ability to write scripts in Perl, bash shell and Expect languages or equivalent
• Configuring, analyzing, and troubleshooting clustered and virtual Oracle (Sun) and Linux-based servers
• Technical aptitude and ability to administer Network services including Active Directory, LDAP, Radius, NPS
• Understanding of network services including DNS, DHCP, NPS and relation to Linux Operating Systems
• Server support including Linux and VMWare
• Linux IPA including LDAP, DNS, Kerberos, addressing any directory services requirements
• Filesystem management on large fiber-channel RAID storage arrays
• Customization of Linux servers for use with large RAID disk arrays
• Skills/understanding of Microsoft server and OS products that connect and support Linux based systems
• Experience with VMWare installation and configuration and Systems Administration of ESXi hosts

Nice-to-haves

• Linux RedHat Certified System Administrator or equivalent certification

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Paid holidays
• Flexible PTO program
• 401k program