OPS Consulting is seeking a Cloud Systems Administrator to support 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. 
Description: 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. 
Required Experience:

• 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 Hadoop/Cloud System Administrator Certification or comparable Cloud System/Service Certification is required.
• One (1) year of experience performing system administration and monitoring large distributed system consisting of: multiple clusters; clustering implemented across at least 3 racks of equipment; minimum of 60 nodes per site.
• Three (3) years experience writing software scripts using scripting languages including bash, perl, or python.
• Five (5) years experience demonstrating a fundamental understanding and working knowledge of core components of the Linux operating system including the management of user and group accounts in LDAP configuration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP.
• Experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large scale cloud computing systems including familiarity with distributed systems for storage and retrieval of data e.g. Hadoop, CASSANDRA, SCALITY, SWIFT, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or another other comparable technology for big data management or High performance computing.
• 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.
• Demonstrated experience with configuration management tools including Puppet and SALT
• 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.
• Experience troubleshooting commodity hardware platforms including previous experiences with SGI/HP hardware including SGI’s J series.

Desired Experience:

• 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.
• Basic understanding of low level network concepts including vlans, port channel bonding and layer2/layer 3 switch interactions.
• Familiarity with software load balancers for large scale webservice implementations including haproxy and nginx
• Experience with Kubernetes orchestration services and Docker images.
• Experience with log aggregation and search tools including ElasticSearch, logstatsh, filebeats, Grafana, and rsyslog.
• Prometheus, JIRA, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Virtualization, Salt, Grafana, Openstack and AWS. 

Security Clearance:

• A current government clearance, background investigation, and polygraph are required.