Linux Engineer

Warrenton / Tysons, VA

TS/SCI with Poly

At Bcore, our strength comes from how we deliver impact to the mission. Whether it’s architecting critical IT solutions, producing actionable intelligence, or developing cutting edge technology, we succeed because of the expertise, collaboration, and agility of our teams. Our Mission Services division combines enterprise IT, cloud solutions, DevSecOps, systems engineering, software development, and operational support. Bcore accelerates decisive advantage for warfighters and intelligence professionals by fusing human insight, rapid-fire engineering, precision-measured outcomes, and relentless grit into mission-ready solutions.

Do you want to join a team that is building tailored technical solutions to modernize our government’s mission and our client’s business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nation’s cyber interests? Join our growing team supporting customer missions as a Linux Engineer in Warrenton / Tysons, Virginia.

The Infrastructure Linux Team Engineer will be responsible for the implementation, support and maintenance of all aspects of the project’s Linux infrastructure. Project infrastructure includes virtual and physical servers and software resources.

• Build, secure, maintain baseline physical, vm, cloud instances
• Monitor HW env to ensure rapid fixes and minimal downtime
• Work with multiple development teams for security and configuration updates
• Assist with planning and implementation of new infrastructure tools/services
  
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Install, configure, secure and maintain all physical and virtual onsite and cloud servers/vms/instances using kickstart, puppet, ansible, infrastructure-as-code
• Monitor health and capacity of and troubleshoot Linux system resources using Nagios and iLO or iDRAC and VMware host console
• Assist multiple development teams with recurring operations and maintenance activities (host creation, system performance issues, H/W issues, general Linux administration support, Centrify/AD support, etc.)
• Coordinating and escorting vendors into the Data Center to replace failed hardware components on Linux systems
• Project based development and implementation of new Linux hardware and software capabilities (Security enhancements, Central Logging, Resource Monitoring and Notification, Dev/Ops Automation, etc.)
• Participating in and conducting applicable accreditation support (scans, automation, auditing, etc.) of Linux systems
• Providing general Linux system administration guidance and support to multiple development teams (disk management, account creation, design reviews, etc.)
• Create, manage, and update Linux servers in the cloud environment
  
  
  

The successful candidate must be able to work well both in a team setting and individually on project-based tasks and have direct experience in the following

System Administration

• Prior experience as a Unix/Linux Systems Administrator of Linux, preferably RHEL/CentOS (installation, configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting)
• Prior experience developing Puppet modules for server builds (Kickstart), and maintenance automation
• Prior experience integrating automation with TFTP, DHCP and DNS.
• Prior experience with Centrify and Active Directory integration and management of Linux groups, accounts and servers
• Prior experience with one or more scripting tools Puppet, Shell, Perl/CGI, Python
• Prior experience working with Linux in a cloud environment
  
  
  

VMWare/VSphere

• Managing and monitoring Linux server resources in a VMWare/VSphere environment
• Building and maintaining all Linux Virtual Machines
  
  
  

Server/Resource Automation

• Experience with automation tools, such as Puppet and Ansible, CGI/Perl and Python
  
  
  

Hardware Experience

• Direct experience with, including hardware maintenance, firmware updates to HP DL Series Servers, Dell PowerEdge R630/730 Servers and iLOM/iDRAC usage
  
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Prior experience with SQL querying of a relational database, such as MySQL
• Prior experience with Nutanix and HPCC technologies
• Prior experience with Python and Ansible automation of system administration and configuration tasks
• Prior experience setting up Docker clusters using Swarm and or Kubernetes
• Prior experience with HP Apollo 4000 and 2000 systems architectures
• Prior experience with git for Infrastructure code management
  
  
  

BCore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.