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Linux Systems Administrator

2024-150497
Information Technology
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Location:

Clearfield
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UT

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No remote/telework allowed
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About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Linux System Administrator to join our team in supporting our environmental information management and compliance enterprise software solutions. This position is  located in Clearfield, Utah.

 The System Administrator will help maintain Linux-based development, test, training and production environments for our web-based applications. The selected candidate will support information security by configuring these environments to conform to DoD security standards, applying patches, gathering artifacts and documenting evidence that demonstrates compliance during periodic security audits.

 In addition to the core responsibilities of this position noted in the Roles and Responsibilities section below, the selected candidate will also likely be involved in assisting the team in the performance of a wide breadth of tasks related to competencies listed in the Preferred Qualifications section of this job description, many of which can be learned while on the job.

 What you will do: 

  • Provide input and guidance of architecture decisions with regard to middle-tier changes
     Evaluate new technologies, determine viability of solutions and make recommendations
  • Partner with Data Center operations and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless deployments, proper documentation and support for applications
  • Maintain several environments, keeping them in-step with security changes and patches, including OS, Database and all vendor updates, while adhering to certification standards and change procedures
  • Perform builds and deployments in support of testing upcoming releases, including submitted changes and duties related to configuration management in a development environment
  • Support development teams, implementation teams and help-desk teams with requested issues, both local and remote to the site
  • Stand up, maintain, backup, tune and secure required systems needed for any environment. This will include physical and virtual servers, operating systems, middle-tier software, database software and data, LDAP servers, HTTP servers, firewall, proxy servers, printers, routers, switches, All components of a sub-net and the accompanying security
  • Occasionally provide after-hours or weekend troubleshooting support to address urgent issues that may arise in the production deployment of a web-based application used by over 150,000 DoD employees
Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree and 2 years of experience. Additional 4 years of experience maybe accepted in lieu of the degree
  • Understanding of Linux Operating System administration in server environments
  • Experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux server ( RHEL)
  • Linux-based shell scripting experience
  • Some SQL familiarity
  • Has, or is capable and motivated, to obtain the CISSP certification
  • US. Citizenship is required

 Preferred Qualifications:

 Ability to manage/administer one or more of the following within a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server-based environment:

  • Subversion administration and use
  • Oracle Database installation and administration
  • SAP Business Objects installation and administration
  • Apache Tomcat middle-tier application server administration
  • Apache HTTP server administration
  • NTP server
  • IPSEC firewall
  • Java application builds and deployments to Tomcat
  • Postfix and Dovecot E-Mail server administration
  • Spam and anti-virus filtering software

Benefits:

 

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We’re fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way. 

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Target Salary Range

$66,000 - $106,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

EEO

An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.

Our Values

Benefits

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We’re fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way.

  • Paid Time-Off and Holidays
  • Retirement
  • Life & Disability Insurance
  • Career Development
  • Tuition Assistance and Student Loan Financing
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Additional Benefits
  • Medical, Dental, & Vision Care
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