Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language, operations, and technology services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow. We are actively hiring a Linux Systems Engineer with TS/SCI clearance and polygraph to join our Mission Technology Division working in McLean, VA.
RESPONSIBILITIES/REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- We are looking for a Senior Linux Systems Engineer with a minimum of 6+ years' experience.
- Bachelor's Master's degrees are preferred with a background utilizing the following: Linux including Red Hat and its derivatives (centOS, RHEL, RockyOS).
- Experience in shell scripting and manipulating the Linux command line.
- Experience providing Linux Administration support
- Experience providing engineering infrastructure support.
- Duties to Include but not limited to: Perform systems engineering and software development in multiple large enterprise server environments (e.g., Linux, Red Hat and CentOS)
- Provide technical guidance in software engineering techniques and automated support tools.
- Analyze functional business applications and design specifications for functional activities.
- Prepare required documentation (program-level and user-level)
- Assist in establishing standards for information systems procedures.
- Perform technical evaluations and analysis.
- Support the customer in the development and maintenance of systems baseline.
- Assess server loads and work with technical leads to develop tuning recommendations.
- Additional duties, as assigned.
- O&M duties include:
- Provide operational pager/phone duty support.
- Complete day-to-day Operations & Maintenance tasks
- Perform operating system software updates, upgrades and patches.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with the following languages: Python, Ruby, Bash, PHP
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), CloudFormation, google Cloud and Microsoft Azure
- Experience with configuration management software (e.g., Ansible, Puppet Manifests and Foreman)
- Experience with cloud computing, including PaaS, IaaS and SaaS
- Experience with CaaS (e.g., Kubernetes and OpenShift)
- Experience with LAMP
Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action
ATS is committed to a program of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion/creed, hairstyles and hair textures, handicap/disability, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by federal, state or local law. It is the policy of ATS not merely to refrain from employment discrimination as required by the various federal, state, and local enactments, but to take positive affirmative action to realize for women, people of color, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans full equal employment opportunity. We support the employment and advancement in employment of individuals with disabilities and of protected veterans, and we treat qualified individuals without discrimination on the basis of their physical or mental disability or veteran status.