24 Oct
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Sr System Administrator with a Top Secret clearance
Virginia, Herndon , 20170 Herndon USA

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Knowledge Management, Inc. (KMI), a small business founded in 1998, provides world-wide mission critical services to the US Federal government. Our services include:

Enterprise Information Technology Logistics

Education Program Management

Job#: 8003

Title: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Senior System Administrator/Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Assignment Location(s): Washington DC or Rosslyn or Herndon

Estimated Contract Duration: Base year + 6 (1 - year options)

Required clearance: Top Secret

Education: AA/BS Information Technology; Computer Science

Extensive Knowledge and Experience: 8 -10 years RedHat Engineer/Systems Administrator, OpenShift, CEPH (Object storage), Puppet, RH Satellite, VMWare vSphere, VRealize, VCenter; Ansible, Docker, Cisco switching and routing, VOIP, IPSEC, and firewall technology

Certifications: RHEL 6, 7, 8; CompTIA A+ Certified, CompTIA Network+ Certified; CompTIA Security+ Certified KMI is hiring a RedHat Enterprise Linux System Administrator/Subject Matter Expert (SME) to join our team in support of a recently awarded the State Department’s Consular Affairs Enterprise Infrastructure Operations (CAEIO) program. Under this new award KMI, will plan, engineer, implement, enhance, maintain and operate the global IT environment. Work will support the agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters and over 350 locations worldwide.

Introduction:The scope of this effort is to provide IT Operations and Maintenance support for the HW/SW platforms on which Consular Affairs (CA) IT systems reside and operate domestically and overseas. The RHEL SME provides support at domestic Consular facilities working closely with the Government, as requested. The RHEL SME shall support the ISSO and ensure that security and internal controls are handled in accordance with DOS policies and procedures. The RHEL SME shall coordinate with the team to ensure that all problems/incidents are logged into the Ticket Management System and managed in accordance with the requirements specified by the government. The candidate should have demonstrated experience working at a client site in a high stress and high threat environment and deliver measurable results.The requirements described below support the RHEL SME position. The candidate will provide infrastructure support for CA servers, storage platforms, systems, networking equipment, and hosted systems in use at DOS facilities domestically and overseas.The contractor support shall include, but is not limited to:
  • Provide comprehensive technical support of all Consular infrastructure in use at DOS facilities.
  • Coordinate overseas assistance requiring local hands on support, with IRM as IRM staff provide local IT support for all overseas posts.
  • Provide Linux-based Server Hosting support, including but not limited to installing, managing, and maintaining Linux DOS compliant server environments including:
  • Midrange server platform HW running enterprise mission applications and services, application, database, middleware, web portal, and / or proxy servers).
  • VMWare virtualization clusters hosting of Windows and Linux servers on both internal (OpenNet) and multiple DOS Demilitarized Zones (DMZs) networks.
  • Perform system health checks and conduct proactive monitoring and performance management of servers including but not limited to analysis of Central Processing Unit (CPU) utilization, memory utilization, Input/Output (I/O), storage utilization and network interfaces.
  • Analyze and identify applications and services that degrade server performance.
  • Monitor and respond to alerts generated by the Enterprise Event Management and Monitoring capability.
  • Provide Preventative Maintenance (PM) and Remedial Maintenance (RM) for infrastructure.
  • Perform backups and restores of data.
  • Provide SW support, including but not limited to; operating systems, virtualization, SW authentications, SW utilities, and schedulers.
  • Support storage solutions globally including but not limited to, enterprise block, object and network attached storage, and managing multiple Storage Area Networks (SANs) housing multiple petabytes of data.
  • Support and resolve GOTS problems conferring with other DOS Bureaus that deploy and provide GOTS applications as needed.
  • Provide support for Oracle appliances (i.e. Exadata, Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA)) installed within the Data Centers to support the CA database environment.
  • Support and maintain security, backup, and load balancing appliances in the physical and virtual environments and direct support of databases and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (i.e. Layer 7, F5, and Avamor).
  • In conjunction with engineering and implementation, as well as other CA/CST teams; including engineering and deployment, plan and implement infrastructure refreshes.
  • Support the Business Intelligence Data Smart Infrastructure that currently supports enterprise reporting for CA. p. Support authorized and vendor recognized patching for infrastructure.
  • Support, plan, and schedule remote or local backup/restore/recovery services.
  • Provide maintenance and monitoring support of the ESB environment and service with the latest version of services, patches and configuration in accordance with the engineering team’s guidance and contractor recommendations.
  • Provide support for industry standard protocols (i.e. Windows Management Instrumentation/ Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (WMI and SMTP)).
  • Provide support for infrastructure audits, assessments, and compliance analysis. u. Submit system baseline requests to meet DOS and CA/CST requirements prior to deploying new HW/SW.
  • Best regards,Marie LuppoldSr. Program Hiring ManagerKnowledge Management, Inc.353 Middlesex RoadTyngsboro, MA 01879Officeext. 200Fax: 978-649-1268Email: Website: www.knowledgemanagement.com"An SBA 8(a) STARS II, GSA Schedule 70, PSS, RS3 Contract Holder & an SDB & MBE Certified Company"

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