Senior Linux Admin Columbia, MD 165 – 196K Do you like to tackle complex software challenges? If you love mastering bare-metal environments, configuring high-performance infrastructure, and automating complex deployments at scale, you’re in the right place! We are looking for a Senior Linux Systems Administrator who shares our drive to push boundaries and build secure, data-driven applications that make a real difference. In this role, you will support a high-priority, highly visible malware analysis modernization program. Working within a large software development environment, you will keep mission-critical enterprise systems running flawlessly while implementing the automated infrastructure needed for next-generation cyber analysis, orchestration, and data enrichment products. Required Skills • Clearance: Active Fully-Cleared with Poly. • Core Systems Admin: Mastery of Linux system administration, architecture, and maintenance. • Infrastructure Automation: Strong proficiency utilizing Ansible for configuration management and automated provisioning. • Troubleshooting: Extensive, proven experience diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure and environment bottlenecks. • Virtualization & Orchestration: Direct experience deploying and managing environments using VMware and Kubernetes container orchestration. Desired Skills • Storage Management: Experience administering enterprise storage arrays, with a strong preference for PureStorage. • Database Administration: Operational knowledge and administration of MongoDB. • Cisco Networking: Experience architecting, deploying, upgrading, patching, and troubleshooting network solutions utilizing Cisco products. • Network Optimization: Skills in diagnosing complex connectivity issues, resolving critical network outages, and eliminating data bottlenecks.
What you'll do
- Administer and maintain mission-critical Linux infrastructure supporting a malware analysis modernization program
- Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks for automated configuration management and provisioning at scale
- Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot VMware virtualization environments and Kubernetes container orchestration platforms
- Diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure bottlenecks, performance degradations, and environment failures
- Support bare-metal server provisioning and lifecycle management for high-performance compute environments
- Collaborate within a large software development organization to integrate infrastructure automation with next-generation cyber analysis and data enrichment pipelines
- Maintain and optimize enterprise storage arrays and assist with network troubleshooting in support of continuous mission operations
Mission
Malware analysis modernization — cyber analysis, orchestration, and data enrichment in a high-priority intelligence or DoD enterprise environment
Required skills
- Linux system administration
- Ansible
- VMware
- Kubernetes
- bare-metal server provisioning
- infrastructure automation
- configuration management
- performance troubleshooting