Linux Administrator
Job Title: Linux AdministratorJob Category: Information TechnologyTime Type: Full timeMinimum Clearance Required to Start: SecretEmployee Type: Regular-Long Term AssignmentPercentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%Type of Travel: Local* * *The Opportunity:Join a high-impact infrastructure engineering team responsible for architecting, securing, and maintaining enterprise-scale Linux environments. Lead modern automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives. Drive adoption of modern container orchestration and next-generation Agentic AI tooling to streamlinesysadmin workflows and proactive operations. Collaborate closely with development and DevOps teams to establish robust CI/CD deployment pipelines and automated platform management. Opportunity for continuous professional growth within a collaborative, forward-thinking technology organization.Responsibilities:Manage, configure, and maintain high-availability Enterprise Linux servers across production and non-production environments.Design, write, test, and maintain robust Ansible playbooks, roles, and automated workflows forconfiguration management and patch automation.Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes orchestrationplatforms.Build, optimize, and maintain CI/CD automation pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, andAnsible Automation Platform / AWX.Author modular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates and automation scripts to provision reproduciblesystem architecture.Develop Python and Bash automation scripts for monitoring, incident triage, system diagnostics, andoperational task execution.Leverage and integrate Agentic AI assistants and LLM-driven tooling to automate Linux administrativetasks, log analysis, and incident resolution.Maintain version control hygiene and code collaboration workflows using Git and GitHub (branchingstrategies, PR reviews, automation).Implement strict security hardening standards (CIS benchmarks, SELinux, RBAC), patch management,and vulnerability remediation.Participate in on-call rotation, performance tuning, capacity planning, and comprehensive disasterrecovery drills.Qualifications:Required:Currently hold an Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI.Currently a US Citizen5+ years of hands-on Enterprise Linux Administration experience (RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu Server) in mission-critical environments.Extensive experience writing, testing, and deploying Ansible playbooks, roles, and inventory structures at scale.Proven experience deploying and managing containerized applications with Docker and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes / OpenShift).Strong programming/scripting proficiency with Python and Bash for infrastructure automation and systems tooling.Solid experience with Git-based version control workflows and repository management (GitHub, GitLab).Hands-on experience building and executing CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Ansible W...