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Artera Technologies Cloud Administrators in Annapolis Junction / Fort Meade, Maryland
CLOUD ADMINISTRATORS
Job Type: Full Time
Level: Mid, Senior
Location: Fort Meade / Annapolis Junction, MD area
Security Clearance: TS/SCI with Appropriate Agency Polygraph
Candidate will perform systems administration work in a dynamic and operational environment supporting the cloud-based repositories. A successful candidate for this position has experience working with large Hadoop and Accumulo based clusters. Experience interfacing with hardware, software, security, and network teams would benefit the candidate as well as experience with Bash, Python, and configuration management tools such as Puppet. These repositories are used by thousands of Intelligence Community users which requires that the candidate have experience monitoring systems and resolving or escalating network and data flow alerts for cloud systems hardware, software or network problems. This opening requires the candidate to have experience as a Linux system administrator for large Hadoop and Accumulo based clusters, a strong background in troubleshooting operational system issues as they arise, and strong Linux administration skills. This candidate will also be expected to be comfortable working in a high-tempo mission environment where requirements change daily due to operational and world events.
Tasking:
System administration and monitoring large distributed system consisting of multiple clusters.
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 for big data management or high-performance computing).
Writing software scripts using scripting languages including bash, Perl, or python.
Accessing and troubleshooting systems via remote utilities to perform hardware diagnosis and repair including VNC, serial over LAN interfaces, and IPMI, BIOS-level configuration.
Troubleshooting commodity hardware platforms including previous experiences with SGI/HP hardware including SGI’s J series.
Skills & Experience:
Core components of the Linux operating system, including the management of user and group accounts in LDAP configuration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP.
Configuration management tools including Puppet and SALT.
End-to-end Linux PXE/Network provisioning process, to include familiarity with Anaconda Kickstart configurations, RAID controller utilities, TFTP images, and disk detect scripts.
Kubernetes orchestration services and Docker images.
Log aggregation and search tools including ElasticSearch, logstatsh, filebeats, Grafana, and rsyslog.
SSH tunneling and protocols including the implementation of dynamic SOCKS proxies as well as other ssh-based utilities, including rysn, pdsh, pdcp, and WinSCP.
OpenSSL and Java keystore manipulation.
General Qualifications:
Hadoop/Cloud System Administrator Certification or comparable Cloud System/Service Certification is required.
Cloud Administrator Level 0 requires a relevant technical bachelor’s and 3-5 years of experience in cloud systems administration.
Cloud Administrator Level 1 requires a relevant technical bachelor’s and 5-7 years of experience in cloud systems administration.
Cloud Administrator Level 2 requires relevant technical bachelor’s and 7+ years of experience in cloud systems administration.
About Us!
Artera Technologies, LLC is an energetic, employee-focused, woman-owned business headquartered in Ellicott City, MD. Founded in 2012, Artera offers innovative software and systems engineering solutions to the Intelligence Community (IC). We specialize in Computer Network Operations (CNO), embedded development, software engineering, cloud engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), DevOps support, systems engineering and more. We hire and retain top talent to deliver leading-edge solutions to help solve our customer’s mission challenges. Artera was founded with the conviction that organizational culture is the key to delivering powerful solutions. Since 2012, our tight-knit team of tech professionals have committed to our core values: Integrity, Customer Mission Success, and Employee Growth & Engagement.
Ready to make a difference?
With a large variety of projects and contracts we can find the right fit—skills, growth opportunities, and personality—for each of our employees. To apply, please visit www.arteratech.com or email your resume to staffing@arteratech.com.
Artera Technologies, LLC provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, or any other protected class.
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