Job Summary

SITEC Consulting Analytic Hosting Platform team is searching for a Cloud System Administrator to work in a cloud environment platform, built with Java on Free and Open-Source Software products including Kubernetes, Hadoop, and Accumulo, to enable the execution of data-intensive analytics on a managed infrastructure. This position is on the Operations Team that ensures day-to=day operations stability, provides customer support, as well as knowledge in technical and troubleshooting repair expertise. The ideal candidate will have the ability to thrive in a fast-paced team environment who is self-motivated and proactively completes tasks with strong attention to detail. The candidate will be exposed to a variety of technologies depending on customer requirements. This is an on-call position. The candidate should have a strong background in troubleshooting operational issues in a Linux environment. Additional knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Hadoop and scripting experience such as python and bash is beneficial. Other experience that could be beneficial are Prometheus, JIRA, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Virtualization, Salt, Grafana, Openstack, and AWS.

Primary Responsibilities

• Shall have demonstrated ability to work within a pre-defined mission focused team structure, follow SOP's, communicate effectively, accept constructive feedback, and receive technical guidance and advice from senior level technical resources.
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and leverage senior level resources to expand current technical foundation using team structure.
• Shall have two (2) years' experience writing software scripts using scripting languages including bash, perl, or python.
• Shall have three (3) years' experience demonstrating a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of core components of the Linux operation system including the management of user and group accounts in LDAP configuration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP.
• Demonstrated experience with configuration management tools including Puppet and SALT

Basic Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to work within a pre-defined mission focused team structure, follow SOP's, communicate effectively, accept constructive feedback, and receive technical guidance and advice from senior level technical resources.
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and leverage senior level resources to expand current technical foundation using team structure.
• Have two (2) years' experience writing software scripts using scripting languages including bash, perl, or python.
• Have three (3) years' experience demonstrating a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of core components of the Linux operation system including the management of user and group accounts in LDAP configuration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP.
• Demonstrated experience with configuration management tools including Puppet and Salt.
• Position requires an active TS//SCI with poly

Education Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics is highly desired and will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience.

Desired Competencies

Certifications:

• Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Generalist
• CCA Administrator
• Elastic Certified Engineer
• Elastic Certified Observability Engineer
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator --- Associate
• AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
• Experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large scale cloud computing systems including familiarity with distributed systems g. Apache's Hadoop and Accumulo, CASSANDRA distributed databases, or SCALITY or SWIFT object stores.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex tasks, show a willingness to educate and train more junior technical resources.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, communicate, lead and oversee complex technical tasks requiring interaction with multiple groups.
• Advanced knowledge of SSH tunneling and protocols including the implementation of dynamic SOCKS proxies as well as other ssh-based utilities, including rysn, pdsh, pdcp, and WinSCP.
• Understanding of the end-to-end Linux PXE/Network provisioning process to include familiarity with Anaconda Kickstart configurations, RAID controller utilities, TFTP images, and disk detect scripts.
• Experience accessing and troubleshooting systems via remote utilities to perform hardware diagnosis and repair including VNC, serial over LAN interfaces, and IPMI, BIOS-level configuration.
• Understanding of overall corporate architecture as well as familiarity with openSSL and Java keystore manipulation.
• Basic understanding of low-level network concepts including vlans, port channel bonding and layer2/layer 3 switch interactions.
• Experience troubleshooting commodity hardware platforms including previous experiences with SGI/HP hardware including SGI's J series.
• Familiarity with software load balancers for large scale webservice implementations including haproxy and nginx experience with Kubernetes orchestration services and Docker images.

Other Duties Disclaimer

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties and responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.ay change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.