Ansible Automation & Red Hat Linux System Administrator

JOB DESCRIPTION

**Job Title : Ansible Automation & Red Hat Linux System Administrator**

**Location : Woodlawn, MD (Hybrid)**

**Duration : Long Term**

**Note: Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of SSA Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD. Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 2 days a week.**

**Position Description:**

- Develop Ansible playbooks and modules.
- Work collaboratively with the cyber security engineering team to create and deploy Ansible solutions for a distributed data center infrastructure environment.
- Administer Ansible infrastructure, perform maintenance and configuration and provide SME level support.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test, and production environments.
- Update system and process documentation and user guides as needed diagrams and SOPs as needed.
- Responsible for designing database tables and structures.
- Crete views, stored procedures, and functions in SQL.
- Design and maintain the 24x7 Linux server infrastructures that support SSA mission critical web-based applications.
- Maintain the Red Hat Linux Servers and secure the servers according to the Policy Compliance Management requirements.
- Manage and work in a Red Hat Linux operating system and services.
- Installation, configuration and tuning of RedHat 6 (REHL 6) and RedHat7 (REHL 7) virtual servers
- Configure and maintain Red Hat Satellite System Management Platform.
- Troubleshoot and Resolve Linux Operating System-based issues from Performance to Configuration.
- Backing up and Protecting Linux environments using platform-specific tools.
- Perform daily system checks, review and respond to events reflected in various management tools, perform server patch management.
- Notify Government representative of issues involving performance of the operating environment.
- Share technical best practices and serve as a point of contact for any major incidents, managing customer expectations and communications to a resolution of such incidents.
- Conduct system audit reviews and perform maintenance functions as required to ensure system health.
- Write and debug bash and korn shell scripts to assist in all manner of server management.
- Work with the team and application sponsors to resolve issues that arise in the daily administration of the Linux environment.
- Troubleshoot and resolve problems for all applications.
- Support, implement and maintain new applications coming into the environment.
- Present status information on issues and problems at the weekly team meetings.
- Document software changes.
- Document problem resolution steps.
- Assist in troubleshooting and problem resolution on Linux systems – performance, health, configuration.
- Assure best-practices and standards are implemented and adhered to for software systems.
- Perform daily system checks, review and respond to events reflected in various management and monitoring tools.
- Notify Government representatives of issues involving performance of the operating environment.
- Conduct system audit reviews and perform maintenance functions as required to ensure system health.
- Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences.
- Interface with the customer daily.
- Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of relative experience, Master's degree and 4 years of relative experience, or 10 years of relative experience in an IT field in lieu of a degree
- Minimum of 4 years experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Tower. (Experience with Ansible strongly preferred, however open to other DevOps (Chef, Salt, Puppet) tools experience)
- Minimum of 2 years strong experience coding and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Batch files, etc.)
- 4 years strong experience with RHEL 6, RHEL 7 System Administration
- Strong knowledge of Source Code Control Systems (Git)
- 4 years RedHat Enterprise Linux v6.x/7.x Operating System experience (Installation and upgrade of the operating system)
- 2 years WebSphere, ColdFusion and Apache Application Server platforms for both configuration and troubleshooting of hosted applications experience
- 2 years of experience setting up and maintaining Red Hat Satellite System Management Platform
- 2 years PERL and Python scripting
- 1 year XML
- 1 year of commonly used Linux tools such as JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket
- Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance