Clearance Level: Active TS/SCI (Required)
US Citizenship: Required
Job Classification: Full Time
Start Date: Immediate
Location: San Antonio, TX
Years of Experience: 3 years of direct and relevant experience in Cloud Engineering or Administration
Education Level: Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Networking or Information System Security or related Degree. Five or more years of additional direct and relevant experience can be substituted for Degree requirement
Position Description:
Our client is seeking a Linux System Engineer to maintain an automated deployment of an IaaS and PaaS solution for two small AFCYBER research and development networks located on JBSA-Lackland and used by other systems engineers and application developers. Solution is integrated with DNS, LDAP (AD), and other technologies provided by other engineering teams. Perform IaaS/PaaS administrative duties, such as periodically refreshing Linux and Windows cloud-ready images, adding/refreshing docker container images, and updating isolated networks’ package repositories. Troubleshoot system and application-level issues with IaaS/PaaS. Maintain physical servers associated with IaaS. Patch/upgrade IaaS/PaaS packages and operating systems on periodic basis. Use agile methodologies and SRE practices to safely modify systems after robust testing using IaaS/PaaS staging and dev environments, config management tools, and change management process. Perform root cause analysis of system outages, as required, and document results. Assist and educate IaaS/PaaS users, as required. Contribute to knowledge-base provided for users and runbooks provided to engineers and administrators. Contribute to open source community by submitting bug reports to Red Hat (and others) and periodically mirror sanitized Ansible roles and other code onto public Github under MIT license.
Required Skills:
- Experience using/configuring at least one of the following:
- Private IaaS technology (i.e. VMWare, OpenStack, etc.)
- PaaS technology (i.e. OpenShift, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Storage-as-a-service technology (i.e. Ceph, Gluster, etc.)
- Experience using at least one of the following:
- Configuration management / orchestration technology (i.e. Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
- Scripting in at least one programming language (i.e. Bash, Python, Go, etc.)
- Experience using at least one source code management system (i.e. Git, Subversion, Mercurial, etc.)
Preferred Skills:
- Configuration managing, installing, configuring, deploying, troubleshooting, and administering Red Hat Director-deployed Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) private clouds
- Config managing, installing, configuring, deploying, troubleshooting, and administering
- Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.9 PaaS installations, installed on top of OpenStack
- Config managing, installing, configuring, deploying, troubleshooting, and administering
- Red Hat Ceph 2 (Jewel) stand-alone storage cluster installations on bare-metal
- Using at least one system-level monitoring solution (i.e. Nagios, Zabbix, etc.)
- Using at least one application-level monitoring solution (i.e. ELK, Splunk, etc.)
- Using/configuring Ansible roles and Tower/AWX for config mgmt/orchestration
- Using Git plus Gitlab and/or Github for source code management
- Using/configuring CI/CD pipelines using common technologies (i.e. Jenkins, Gitlab CI, etc.)
- Experience working in a completely isolated, air-gapped network
- Experience working with software defined networking
Required Certifications:
The candidate must be current and have and have one of the following certificates:
- OpenStack Foundation Certified OpenStack Administrator
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack
Preferred Certifications:
- CompTIA A+
- CompTIA Network+
- CompTIA Security+
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHEL7)
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHEL7)
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack
- Red Hat Certified Engineer in Red Hat OpenStack
- Red Hat Certificate Architect (with Cloud or DevOps related certificates of expertise)