Linux System Administrator / Network Engineer at Dark Wolf

• Job Location College Park, MD
• Seniority Mid-Senior Level
• Type Full-time

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Description

Dark Wolf Solutions is looking for a Linux System Administrator / Network Engineer who is interested in working in a fast-paced environment building and maintaining an extensive Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), platform and hypervisor stack for a DoD customer.

The successful candidate will work with the team to develop new solutions to support customers' networking and virtualization needs, provide and develop documentation, and monitor security and performance of the platform and deployed services.

Our engineers are asked to solve challenging problems for unique customers, and have a direct impact on the direction of software and hardware products used by those customers.

Key Responsibilities Deploy and maintain critical services supporting primarily on-prem architecture with limited access to cloud-native services.

Work with the Cybersecurity team by implementing industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management Use automation best practices, such as Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and Configuration-as-Code (CaC) for repeatability and fast provisioning of environments Work closely with development teams to provide onboarding support Ensure platform and networks are compliant with DoD policies Support backup and disaster recovery planning Required Qualifications On site presence 3 days a week 3+ years of relevant experience administering Linux servers (ex.

RHEL, Ubuntu) 3+ years of experience configuring firewalls and switches using modern enterprise vendor equipment (ex.

Cisco, Palo Alto, Ubiquiti) Experience administering VMware vSphere, vCenter, and ESXi Experience with administration of Linux endpoints (clients) and virtual machines HS Diploma US Citizenship and an active full Secret security clearance required Interim clearances are not accepted for this position Desired Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field Scripting experience including at least a subset of the following: Bash, Python, Terraform, Ansible Knowledge of Active Directory in addition to other identity federation systems such as LDAP Knowledge of observability tools, such as Splunk or Elasticsearch Experience using Git hosting services such as GitLab, GitHub and BitBucket This location is located in College Park, MD.

On-site presence is expected 3 days per week with the option of 2 days of remote work.