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Role Overview
This position will be filled and worked onsite in Colorado Springs, CO; Active (or active within 24 months) Security Clearance REQUIRED
The Jr. System Admin, Linux Engineer supports North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) on the Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract II. Trace3 Gov’s team provides engineering expertise and IT services in support of various NORAD, NORTHCOM, USSTRATCOM, and US Space Force Command and Control (C2) missions. The systems provide timely, accurate, unambiguous, and continuous classified communications and processing capability in operations centers at Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado; Offutt AFB, Nebraska; Vandenberg, California; and other worldwide operational locations. Employees perform enterprise architecture, system engineering, software development, system integration, and system test duties to fulfill operations, maintenance, and sustainment requirements. Experience supporting capability development, delivery, and sustainment of Command and Control (C2) systems within an Agile environment supporting the missile warning, missile defense, and space domain awareness (SDA) domains is highly desired.
Key Responsibilities
Provide Systems Administration/Integration to support Linux environments.
Administer/update/troubleshoot air warning, missile warning & space defense systems development/test environments.
Implement system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration management.
Linux System Administrator responsible for the internal administration, maintenance, and management of capacity resources the integrated NISSC development environment at the Government Test Development Facility.
Set up and manage Linux and Windows systems, applications and environments and ensuring those systems comply with government security standards.
Builds, configures, troubleshoots, and integrates new and existing servers to provide service enhancements, application deployments and infrastructure upgrades.
Sets up administrator and service accounts, maintains system documentation, tunes system performance, installs system-wide software, and allocates mass storage space.
Troubleshooting network hardware and software applications, OS upgrades, and security systems to resolve operational issues and restore services.
Responsible for monitoring performance, system usage, and back-up and recovery
Familiarity with storage appliances and configurations.
Experience with VMware and the ability to analyze and optimize.
Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), agile system development, and DevSecOps tools and processes.
Supports operating system patching in compliance with security policy and procedures.
Support software deployments to customer sites.
Ensures lab configuration management.
Manage tickets and resolution of issues identified by lab users.
Preferred Technical Skills
Experience in Systems Administration of complex applications on Unix/Linux platforms.
Experience with Linux/Unix system administration including installing and configuring systems from the OS level up.
Experience with Information Assurance policies and procedures and the ability to apply IA requirements to an existing system, experience with applying group policies from Active Directory environment impacting Linux OS.
Ability to write scripts in Perl, bash shell and Expect languages or equivalent (developing, debugging, and maintaining).
Experience with configuring, analyzing, and troubleshooting clustered and virtual Oracle (Sun) and Linux-based servers.
Technical aptitude and ability to administer Network services including Active D...
