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Cloud System Administrator

Candidate must have an active TS/SCI w/ Poly

The Cloud System Administrator provides support for implementation and troubleshooting and maintenance on large clusters.

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* Shall have demonstrated ability to work within a pre-defined mission-focused team structure, follow SOPs, communicate effectively, accept constructive feedback, and receive technical guidance and advice from senior-level technicalresources.

* Shall have demonstrated a willingness to learn new technologies and leverage senior-level resources to expand the current technical foundation using teamstructure.

* Shall have two (2) years of experience writing software scripts usingscripting languages, including bash, perl, orpython.

* Shall have three (3) years of experience demonstrating a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of core components of the Linux operationsystem including managing user and group accounts in LDAP configuration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP.

* Shall have demonstrated experience with configuration management tools, including Puppet andSALT

Education:

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

* Hadoop/Cloud System Administrator Certification or comparable Cloud System/Service Certification is desired.

Desired:

* Shall have experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large-scale cloud computing systems, including familiarity with distributed systems e.g. Hadoop, CASSANDRA, SCALITY, SWIFT, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or another other comparable technology for big data management or High-performancecomputing

* Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex tasks, and show a willingness to educate and train more junior technicalresources.

* Demonstrated ability to plan, communicate, lead and oversee complex technical tasks requiring interaction with multiplegroups.

* 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 detectscripts.

* Experience accessing and troubleshooting systems via remote utilities to perform hardware diagnosis and repair, including VNC, serial over LAN interfaces, and IPMI, BIOS- levelconfiguration.

* Understanding of overall corporate architecture as well as familiarity with openSSL and Java keystoremanipulation.

* Basic understanding of low-level network concepts, including vlans, portchannel bonding and layer2/layer 3 switchinteractions.

* Experience troubleshooting commodity hardware platforms, including previous experiences with SGI/HP hardware including SGI's Jseries.

* Familiarity with software load balancers for large-scale webservice implementations including haproxy and nginx experience with Kubernetes orchestration services and Dockerimages

* Experience with log aggregation and search tools including ElasticSearch, logstatsh, filebeats, Grafana, andrsyslog.

COVID Safety Requirements

DCCA is committed to the safety of our workforce and customers, adhering to COVID-19 Safety Protocols as required by the company, our customers and the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force. Some customer facilities require all employees to provide proof of vaccination status as a condition of employment, subject to approved medical or religious accommodations. Mask wearing and frequent COVID testing/attestation may also be required.

DCCA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status .