Sr. Linux Server Administrator (BISL)

Introduction
The infrastructure running industries likes transportation energy insurance banking or healthcare is quickly changing as the world’s relationship with technology evolves. Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise off-premise or a hybrid approach. Our Infrastructure Specialists are responsible for keeping up with these latest and greatest of these changes and using their expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers and products.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Octo an IBM company is an industry-leading award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. At Octo we specialize in providing agile software engineering user experience design cloud services and digital strategy services that address government’s most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.

Our team is what makes Octo great. At Octo you’ll work beside some of the smartest and most accomplished staff you’ll find in your career. Octo offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform mission critical work for our government. Voted one of the region’s best places to work multiple times Octo is an employer of choice!

You…

As a Linux Server Administrator at Octo you will be responsible for supporting multiple Linux environments. You will have broad knowledge of data sources/flow interactions of complex systems and capabilities/limitations of systems software and computer equipment. The Linux Server Administrator will be able to establish frameworks for new computer systems from feasibility studies to post implementation evaluation recognize probable conflicts and integrate diverse data sources. They will provide innovative solutions for a variety of complex problems and prepare overall project recommendations. Strongly prefer recent experience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Us…

We were founded as a fresh alternative in the Government Consulting Community and are dedicated to the belief that results are a product of analytical thinking agile design principles and that solutions are built in collaboration with not for our customers. This mantra drives us to succeed and act as true partners in advancing our client’s missions.

Program Mission…

This program for the Department of Veterans Affairs will provide sustainment and support of core functions to maintain operations of CDW (Corporate Data Warehouse) platforms and BISL (Business Intelligence Services Line) services.

Responsibilities…

• Work with external Linux distribution partner engineering teams to package and distribute Linux software.
• Work across internal engineering teams (Kubernetes Operating Systems/kernel Open Source etc.)
• Monitor and manage critical Linux infrastructure services.
• Troubleshoot Linux issues to root cause and fix software and infrastructure issues.
• General mastery of Linux Server platforms – Red Hat CentOS. Ubuntu Oracle Linux SuSE Linux; specifically application packaging evaluation and lifecycle support.
• System Administration: Maintain the configuration of CDW shadow-servers (Linux) Maintain Data Filers (Windows) apply updates firmware updates.
• Data Check Management: Develop enhancements to the Data Check methods used to compare site databases with shadow-copies of site databases.
• Data Quality: Address any Data Quality issues between the VistA sites and the CDW shadow-copies of the sites.
• Other Technical Tasks: Software tool management system monitoring site migrations and upgrades eHRM/Cerner Support VX-130 Support and CDW initiative coordination.

Years of Experience: Must have at least 8 years of Linux Server administration experience. Strongly prefer experience with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Education: BA/BS degree in a computer discipline or equivalent applicable experience.

Location: Remote within the United States.

Clearance: Ability to obtain government clearance.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Linux (RHEL7/RHEL8) system administration experience & skills
• Experience with Linux automation and integration; either with COTS solutions or custom scripting.
• Experience with Active Directory integration in a many-site deployment; to include group policy objects.
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite 6.X. Experience with Red Hat Ansible/Ansible Tower
• Experience with Server migration to include performance analysis and cloud sizing exercises.
• Experience with Linux based application performance testing – ability to determine impact an application will have on network latency and bandwidth disk IO and latency CPU memory etc. using COTS and Linux embedded toolsets.
• Demonstrated ability to work with customers to develop and test (MEMCM) application deployments for enterprise deployments to include lifecycle support for eventual application upgrade and removal.
• Ability to self-manage maintain virtual meetings and determine customer requirements while meeting project deadlines.
• Ability to test and certify inter-compatibility with latest versions of Linux Servers and applications.
• Preferred experience supporting Department of Veterans Affairs or other federal organizations
• Clearance: Ability to obtain government clearance.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Familiarity with InterSystems Cache/IRIS
• Programming skills in a high-level language (i.e. C++ InterSystems ObjectScript)
• Windows SA experience