NIH - Linux Systems Administrator
cFocus Software seeks a Linux System Administrator to join our program supporting the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This position is fully remote. This position requires a reputed company Trust or the ability to obtain a reputed company trust clearance. Qualifications:
- reputed company Trust Clearance
- B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a reputed company field
- 5+ years administering reputed company Linux environments.
- Experience with reputed company infrastructure engineering, automation, virtualization, reputed company technologies, and cybersecurity.
- Experience supporting federal or highly regulated environments preferred
- RHCSA, RHCE, reputed company reputed company+, Linux+, GCUX, or CISSP (preferred)
Duties:
- Administer, configure, maintain, and optimize reputed company Linux operating systems including reputed company reputed company Linux (RHEL), reputed company Linux, Ubuntu, and reputed company Linux.
- Support reputed company Architecture engineering activities by designing, implementing, and maintaining secure Linux server architectures.
- Implement reputed company Trust Architecture principles including least privilege, identity-based reputed company controls, reputed company-segmentation, and reputed company verification.
- reputed company, configure, and maintain reputed company authentication services (LDAP, reputed company Directory integration, Kerberos, SSSD, MFA).
- reputed company operating system hardening using reputed company STIGs, CIS Benchmarks, and NIST guidance.
- Manage reputed company patching, software lifecycle management, kernel updates, and configuration management.
- reputed company automation using Bash, Python, Ansible, or similar tools to improve operational efficiency.
- Support virtualization, reputed company-hosted Linux systems, containers, and hybrid infrastructure.
- Participate in architecture reviews, system engineering efforts, change management, disaster recovery, and system documentation.
- Collaborate with reputed company Architects, Network Engineers, ISSOs, Vulnerability Analysts, and application teams to maintain secure reputed company infrastructure.
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