Linux System Administrator (TS/SCI CI POLY)

$117,000 - $177,000/Yr

IBM - Chantilly, VA

Part-time - Mid Level

Chantilly, VA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

As a Mid-Level Linux System Administrator, you will join a small team supporting the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community (IC) by facilitating data sharing using the Common Data Fabric (CDF). Your role will involve working alongside a web application development team to build out and maintain several AWS environments to support full-stack deployments using DevOps best practices. The project you will be working on aims to improve the way information is made available to systems and/or machines, eliminating delays in gaining access. The program, known as Diamond, gathers the technical and policy information required to connect data providers and consumers to the CDF. Your team will generate structured work requests that flow to a sister program (Coalminer) to complete the onboarding of the data providers and consumers. You will be tasked with imagining and creating a solution that automates today's manual processes for capturing data policy and generating the critical and highly unique data sharing agreements (DSAs) that enable the CDF to enforce system-to-system data sharing across the IC and in support of warfighter missions. Additionally, your team's solution will enable self-service CDF onboarding for new IC data providers and consumers.

Responsibilities

• Support the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community by facilitating data sharing using the Common Data Fabric (CDF).
• Work alongside a web application development team to build and maintain AWS environments for full-stack deployments.
• Implement DevOps best practices in the deployment and management of applications.
• Automate manual processes for capturing data policy and generating data sharing agreements (DSAs).
• Enable self-service CDF onboarding for new IC data providers and consumers.

Requirements

• Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II certifications (e.g., CompTia Security+).
• Experience administering and troubleshooting web applications and networks on a Linux system (RHEL or CentOS preferred in an AWS environment).
• Experience performing security hardening of a Linux system to implement NIST 800-53 security controls.
• Experience implementing and troubleshooting PKI for web application endpoints (TLS).
• Experience managing full stack nodejs/react/database/nosql applications and databases deployed using Docker containers.
• Active TS/SCI CI Poly clearance.

Nice-to-haves

• Current or recent status as a Privileged User in an IC environment.
• Experience with software configuration tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.).
• Hands-on experience assisting with the ATO approval process.
• Software development and/or scripting experience with Bash and languages such as Perl, Python, NodeJS, etc.

Benefits

• Up to 8 paid holidays.
• Minimum of 56 hours paid sick time.
• IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Paid family medical leave and disability benefits.