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SOL’s reputation and keys to success are built on providing high quality, responsive engineering and related technical services while maintaining professional commitments and ensuring that full satisfaction is given to our clients throughout the United States.\n\nSOL Engineering is seeking a qualified candidate to perform standard Linux System Administration. The ideal candidate will maintain smooth operation of multi-user computer systems consisting of Linux based application and license servers, virtual machines, and GP/GPU cluster-based systems. Coordination with network administrators is required.\n\nAdditional duties:\nSetting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocate mass storage space.\nDeveloping and monitoring policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.\nParticipating in the installation, integration, acceptance testing, and on-going maintenance of our HPC systems and software environment.\nAssisting with forecast resource limitations and provide recommendations for increasing the efficiency of our resources through proper scheduling and load balancing techniques.\n\nRequired Education, Experience, & Skills\nBachelor’s degree and at least 3 years of experience (additional experience may be substituted for the degree)\nDoD 8570 certification - Security + and OS cert, Linux+, RedHat, etc. (90-day waiver may be provided to obtain the OS certification)\nWillingness to occasionally work after hours and/or respond to emergency situations for problem resolution\nGeneral knowledge of Linux and general Unix operating systems concepts as well as systems administration experience\nAbility to develop and maintain documentation on system administration procedures for routine and complex tasks\nAbility to create and maintain Information Assurance (IA) compliance documentation of the Information System\n\nPreferred Education, Experience, & Skills\nExperience with compiling, installing, and porting software.\nAbility to understand application scaling issues related to problem resolution, algorithm choice.\nExperience with Storage Architectures: SAN, SAS, FC, SATA, Bandwidth, Performance\nAbility to manage development of appropriate application benchmarks, analyze results and determine optimal configurations for processor type/speed, size of memory/cache, and memory interconnect fabric for customer problem domains.\nFamiliar in multi-factor authentication platforms and solutions, and Identity Management such as OpenID, LDAP, and Kerberos.\nSecurity implementations using multi-factor authentication, PKI, or Kerberos and Unix\nOS hardening to DoD STIG standards.\nExperience programming or troubleshooting Python code\nExperience with supporting Apache Web Server\nExperience with Zabbix\nExperience with Red Hat Satellite or Red Hat Identity Manager\nExperience with BIND DNS\nExperience with Ansible\nExperience with Gitlab\n\nWe offer a competitive benefit packet. 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Our viability comes, in part, from utilizing the diverse backgrounds of the firm’s owners and the experiences of its team of approximately 100 engineers, scientists, technical subject matter experts, and program and project managers. Our hands-on project implementation approach encompasses management, quality, and engineering principles to ensure effective management and delivery of all projects. SOL’s reputation and keys to success are built on providing high quality, responsive engineering and related technical services while maintaining professional commitments and ensuring that full satisfaction is given to our clients throughout the United States.\n\nSOL Engineering is seeking a qualified candidate to perform standard Linux System Administration. The ideal candidate will maintain smooth operation of multi-user computer systems consisting of Linux based application and license servers, virtual machines, and GP/GPU cluster-based systems. 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