Cyber Systems Administration, Lead Associate

Peraton is seeking a Cloud Systems Administrator to work on a Cloud Operations systems administration team within a dynamic customer-facing environment. Support several cloud-based repositories minimally during the Friday & Sunday midnight shift (10pm-8pm). Monitor system health, troubleshoot system problems, maintain storage systems, interface with other parts of the team for hardware, network, and infrastructure support, provide after-hours on-call/call-in support on a rotational basis, ensure system security requirements are satisfied, create/maintain system scripts, patch/upgrade system, and administer user accounts.

Basic Qualifications

• Five (5) years with a a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics.
• Five (5) years of experience demonstrating a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of core components of the Linux operating system including the management of user and group accounts in LDAP configuration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP
• Three (3) years of experience writing software scripts using bash, perl, python or a similar language
• At least one (1) year of experience performing system administration and monitoring large distributed system consisting of: multiple clusters, clustering implemented across at least three racks of equipment, and a minimum of 60 nodes per site
• Experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large-scale cloud computing systems including familiarity with distributed systems for storage and retrieval of data e.g. Hadoop, CASSANDRA, SCALITY, SWIFT, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or another other comparable technology
• Experience with configuration management tools including Puppet and SALT
• Security + certification is required
• One of the following certifications is required:
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator --- Associate
• AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with current polygraph is required

Preferred Qualifications

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

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

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Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.