Unix System Administrator (TS)
- Job Title
- Unix System Administrator (TS)
- Job ID
- 27069969
- Location
- Alexandria, VA 22311
- Other Location
- Description
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Job Description
Production Support Team
Unix System Administrator / Systems Engineer
Location: Alexandria, VA
Clearance: Top Secret
Position Overview:
The successful candidate will participate in a team environment supporting a U.S. Government contract that provides personnel security management to DOD. The position involves the development, test, and production support of a web application with a Sybase database. The candidate will need strong analytical skills, strong communication skills, and extensive experience in UNIX. Exposure and experience working with various middleware products is preferred.
Essential Function:
The candidate will be involved in the day-to-day support of a UNIX Solaris operating system development environment for a web application with a Sybase database. Additionally, occasional evening and weekend support for production deployments is required. Strong analytical skills and experience with the ability to communicate is a must. Strong understanding of UNIX, Shell scripting, and relational databases is needed. Must be able to work in a team environment and independently with minimum management oversight. Must possess high energy and strong motivation to make a difference. The work is fast paced and with changing priorities. Task switching without loss of productivity is a must.
Pre-Requisites:
- U.S. Citizenship
- Current DoD Top Secret clearance (based on SSBI investigation)
- Security+ certification is required, or must be obtained within 3 months
- UNIX System Administrator certification is preferred
- 2 - 3 years hands-on experience with the UNIX operating system as a Systems Administrator; preference is that the experience be with Solaris but any Unix OS experience is acceptable. Experience must include system startup/shutdown, backups, vulnerability management, and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) product upgrading/loading/troubleshooting.
- Experience working with middleware products such as Tomcat, Apache, Redhat JBoss-EAP, and Java is preferred
- Ability to assist with developing procedural and technical documentation
- Ability to follow project plans (system migrations and software release upgrade)
- Ability to work evening and weekend hours on a rotational basis for production deployments
- Experience in supporting software developers in development environments
- Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills
- Knowledge of UNIX and web-related security postures, skills and best-practices
- Must be able to effectively articulate complex, technical concepts to on-site clients, non-technical management and co-contractors
- Must demonstrate a strong sense of self-motivation and direction
- A team player
- Understanding of application development lifecycle processes is a plus
- Common office software skills (Word, Excel, Visio)
- Strong motivation to make a difference
- Familiarity with Department of Defense personnel security issues is a plus
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