Description

Captivation Software is looking for a mid level cloud systems administrator to perform within 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. The candidate will become a member of 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, 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.

Responsibilities

• Monitor system health
• Troubleshoot system problems
• Maintain storage systems
• Interface with external teams for hardware, network, and infrastructure support
• Provide after-hours on-call/call-in support
• Ensure system security requirements are satisfied
• Participate in engineering discussions
• Create/maintain system scripts
• Patch/upgrade system
• Administer user accounts
• Maintain hardware inventory

Requirements

Security Clearance:

• Must currently hold a Top Secret/SCI U.S. Government security clearance with a favorable Polygraph, therefore all candidates must be a U.S. citizen

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience RedHat/CentOS command line
• 7 years of experience Linux/Unix networking (nmap, tcpdump, firewalls)
• 7 years of experience RedHat/CentOS kickstart/provisioning (Setting it up)
• 2 years of experience RedHat DNS Administration (DNS, hosts files, DHCP)
• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• One of the following certifications are required:
  • Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Generalist
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect --- Associate
  • Red Hat Certified System Adminstrator (RHCSA)
  • CDP Administrator - Private Cloud Base
  • Elastic Certified Engineer
  • Elastic Certified Observability Engineer
  • Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator --- Associate
  • AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

Required Skills:

• Linux
• Bash
• Python
• Configuration management tools such as Puppet.
• Monitor systems and resolve or escalate network and data flow alerts for cloud systems hardware, software or network issues.
• Cloud based Linux system administration for large Hadoop and Accumulo based clusters environment sustaining a strong background in troubleshooting operational system issues 

Desired Skills:

• Docker,
• Kubernetes
• Hadoop
• Scripting experience such as python and bash is beneficial.
• Prometheus
• Jira
• Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
• Virtualization
• Salt/Ansible
• Grafana
• Openstack
• AWS.

This position is open for direct hires only. We will not consider candidates from third party staffing/recruiting firms.