Linux Administrator

Raye IT Consulting, LLC is a 8a certified minority woman-owned IT consulting and technology firm. Raye IT brings over 20 years experience in delivering mission-critical programs and support for the Federal Government and large agencies. We specialize in program and project management, capital planning and IT investment portfolio management, infrastructure support and application development deployment to include IT operations and maintenance. We deliver value through technical and managerial expertise – innovation, efficient processes, executable strategies, and methodologies that generate tangible and measurable results to our clients across the Federal, Civilian and DoD sectors.

Raye IT is looking for a Linux Administration to support infrastructure of on-premises physical and virtual systems,

Responsibilities

• Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of Information Technology (IT) systems within Linux and Windows infrastructures.  
• Understand and implement hardening/STIG policies as defined by client and industry standards. 
• Windows system administration, managing Active Directory, group policy and DNSsupporting multi-site environments. 
• Management of VMware vSphere (including vCenter and ESXi) supporting multi-site environments. 
• Configure and manage Linux/Windows operating system softwarewithin physical & ESXI virtual infrastructures as well as cloud based Virtual Machines (VMs). (In Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) 
• Management, coordination, and implementation of software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on Linux/Windows servers, workstations,leveraging tools such as WSUS, Satellite, BigFix.  
• Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes. 
• Identify issues and create improvement processes to help with the reduction of incident outage times. 
• Develop and maintain O&M Standard Operating Procedures for developed capabilities. 
• Write and edit scripts in Python, Perl, Powershell, Java, C,etc.    
• Utilize JIRA in an Agile development environment. 
• Support development and maintenance of automated testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, software engineering, computer science, or related field.
• 5+ Years of experience or relevant and transferrable skills preferred.
• Systems Administration experience administering user accounts, performing server subsystem configuration, network management, installation of software, performing backups, configuration management, and general system maintenance.
• Windows system administration 2016/2019 Server, Active directory topology, DNS, GPO management, Linux system administration RHEL 7 & 8 Server.
• Understanding of fundamental networking and distributed computing environment concepts, Microsoft Windows and Linux desktop systems, performance tuning and capacity planning of servers (hardware and software levels).
• Experience with server ESXi VMWare virtualization methodologies.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Familiar with Systems Engineering processes  

Security Clearance Requirement: Public Trust 

Place of Performance: Washington, D.C.

Schedule: Monday - Friday (hybrid)

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off

Raye IT Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.