McLean, VIRGINIAFull TimeSeniorPosted Today
Fuel
Linux Engineer (Expert), McLean
Fuel is looking for a Linux Engineer to join our growing team.Duties may include:
- Proactively maintain and develop all Linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24x7x365 uptime service
- Engineer systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs
- Employ best practices on managing systems and services across all environments
- Fault finding, analysis and of logging information for reporting of performance exceptions
- Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning
- Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches on servers and workstations
- Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks
- Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
- Collaborate with team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes
Skills and Experience:
- Ability to build and optimize Linux servers
- Ability to perform root cause analysis on external and internal processes and data to identify opportunities for improvement and answer questions
- Excellent analytic skills associated with troubleshoot Linux systems
- Experience performing configuration management (e.g., package installation, starting of services, installing scripts or config files)
- Experience with Infrastructure as code
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, informatics, statistics, or computer science/software engineering
- Minimum of five years of experience using some of the below software and tools:
- In depth knowledge of Linux: RedHat, CentOS, etc.
- Experiences using Puppet, Ansible, and/or Chef
- Experience with Terraform and auto-deploy software
- Hands on experience with MySQL, Elastic search
- Familiarity with VMware and AWS platforms
- Expert in Shell and/or Python scripting
- Solid knowledge of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP and SNMP
- Additional Linux certifications (RHCT, RHCE and LPIC) will be considered an advantage
- Strong problem solving and communication skills
About Fuel
Fuel Consulting LLC helps clients create the path to their future. Clients get expertise that needs no ramp-up time to deliver the best practices, customized tools, and methodologies to help them achieve their vision and leave a legacy. If helping others and working with a team of exceptionally talented individuals excites you, then look no further than Fuel. Fuel offers competitive benefits package and is a woman-owned small business serving intelligence community and commercial clients in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area.