4421 Linux Engineer with Security Clearance

OVERVIEW: We are seeking an experienced Linux Systems Engineer to provide support to a mission critical enterprise identity and access management system. A successful candidate will develop an understanding of the services offered to external organizations, provide lifecycle systems engineering support to development and operations on the program, and use a combination of technical and functional expertise to recommend solutions to satisfy customer requirements. GENERAL DUTIES: * Design, develop, and support cloud initiatives to support customer driven needs * Communicate and mitigate operational issues as received. Work to proactively identify RCA of baseline issues and establish a feedback loop to development. * Work as a SME to review user metrics, system health, overall performance checkouts and implements proactive measures to support operational availability * Responsible for deployment support as a product SME. Provide backfill tasking and troubleshooting script/playbook based automation processes as necessary. * Manage several environments as a Linux SME providing overall support to the program and working with Enterprise Services to ensure compliance with security services and applications. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline plus 4-6 years of professional experience as a Systems Administrator or similar technical role. * Proactive self-starter demonstrating a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills. * Two or more years of experience with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.) * Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (network diagrams, data flows, etc.) * Experience working with Agile Team Collaboration tools such as (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket) * Strong Linux background and familiarity with best practices of infrastructure management DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: * Oracle COTS product experience (Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Unified Directory, etc.) * Experience with Kubernetes * Experience with Elastic tools (ElasticSearch, Kibana, Logstash) * Experience with AWS and other cloud vendors. * Experience with Amazon Web Services technical performance versus cost management * Experience with cloud-based architectures * Familiar with cross domain architectures at various levels * Experience with automated testing and monitoring * Experience with Engineering Review Boards and Change Management CLEARANCE: * Active Top Secret clearance minimum required