Cloud System Administrator

Location Annapolis Junction, MD

Job Code 2063

# of Openings 1

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DCCA is a veteran-owned IT business specializing in providing innovative solutions to a variety of government agencies and commercial enterprises since 1982. DCCA is proud to offer career growth opportunities and a competitive compensation and benefits package. Visit our website at: www.dcca.com

Cloud System Administrator

Candidate must have an active TS/SCI w/ Poly

The Cloud System Administrator provides support for implementation and troubleshooting and maintenance on large clusters.

Required:

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· Shall have demonstrated ability to work within a pre-defined mission-focused team structure, follow SOPs, communicate effectively, accept constructive feedback, and receive technical guidance and advice from senior-level technical resources.

· Shall have demonstrated a willingness to learn new technologies and leverage senior-level resources to expand the current technical foundation using team structure.

· Shall have two (2) years of experience writing software scripts using scripting languages, including bash, perl, or python.

· Shall have three (3) years of experience demonstrating a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of core components of the Linux operation system including managing user and group accounts in LDAP configuration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP.

· Shall have demonstrated experience with configuration management tools, including Puppet and SALT

Education:

· Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics is highly desired and will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience.

· Hadoop/Cloud System Administrator Certification or comparable Cloud System/Service Certification is desired.

Desired:

· Shall have experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large-scale cloud computing systems, including familiarity with distributed systems e.g. Hadoop, CASSANDRA, SCALITY, SWIFT, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or another other comparable technology for big data management or High-performance computing

· Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex tasks, and show a willingness to educate and train more junior technical resources.

· Demonstrated ability to plan, communicate, lead and oversee complex technical tasks requiring interaction with multiple groups.

· Advanced knowledge of SSH tunneling and protocols including the implementation of dynamic SOCKS proxies as well as other ssh-based utilities, including rysn, pdsh, pdcp, and WinSCP.

· Understanding of the end to end Linux PXE/Network provisioning process to include familiarity with Anaconda Kickstart configurations, RAID controller utilities, TFTP images, and disk detect scripts.

· Experience accessing and troubleshooting systems via remote utilities to perform hardware diagnosis and repair, including VNC, serial over LAN interfaces, and IPMI, BIOS- level configuration.

· Understanding of overall corporate architecture as well as familiarity with openSSL and Java keystore manipulation.

· Basic understanding of low-level network concepts, including vlans, port channel bonding and layer2/layer 3 switch interactions.

· Experience troubleshooting commodity hardware platforms, including previous experiences with SGI/HP hardware including SGI’s J series.

· Familiarity with software load balancers for large-scale webservice implementations including haproxy and nginx experience with Kubernetes orchestration services and Docker images

· Experience with log aggregation and search tools including ElasticSearch, logstatsh, filebeats, Grafana, and rsyslog.

COVID Safety Requirements

DCCA is committed to the safety of our workforce and customers, adhering to COVID-19 Safety Protocols as required by the company, our customers and the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force. Some customer facilities require all employees to provide proof of vaccination status as a condition of employment, subject to approved medical or religious accommodations. Mask wearing and frequent COVID testing/attestation may also be required.

DCCA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status .