Linux Systems Administrator NEW

Knight Federal Solutions - Newport, RI

Full-time - Entry Level

Newport, RI

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Knight Federal Solutions is seeking a Cyber Systems Engineer to support Tactical System Integration at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, RI. The role focuses on Linux System and Network integration for submarine tactical systems and training simulation infrastructure, contributing to the design, construction, and delivery of advanced undersea warfare training systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, install, and integrate submarine training systems.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, system services, application software and system management tools for Linux and Windows based systems, both natively and within virtual machines.
• Monitor and test application performance to identify issues with installation and performance and to identify possible solutions and work with developers to implement fixes.
• Troubleshoot Information Technology (IT) Systems to diagnose and suggest/implement potential solutions.
• Support physical hardware installation of IT computing equipment and cabling at both local and remote sites.

Requirements

• Demonstrated skills in Linux operating systems, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL or Community Enterprise Operating System (CentOS) distributions.
• Ability to identify operating system issues and produce patches to fix issues as required.
• Scripting skills (e.g., bash shell scripts).
• Good communication skills.
• Computer System/Networking troubleshooting skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Submarine Tactical and Electronic Warfare Systems, including AN/BYG-1 and AN/BLQ-10, at the operation level and/or build/deployment level.
• Experience with debugging issues with the Linux kernel.
• Experience with Gluster, NFS, and other direct attach file systems.
• Experience with System Build Automation Tools (Linux kickstart, Ansible, Puppet).
• Networking knowledge (OSI Network Layers, TCP/IP, DHCP).
• Current IAT Level I Certifications.
• Network+ certification.
• Security+ certification.
• Linux+ certification.
• Computer/Electronics Hardware knowledge.
• Configuration management experience with both centralized and distributed version control systems (e.g., SVN and Git).
• Experience with virtualization technologies, preferably Red Hat KVM (e.g., Red Hat KVM, VMware, libvirt/virsh).