Linux Engineer

Criterion Systems • Las Vegas, Nevada, United States • 3w ago

Overview

At Criterion Systems, we developed a different kind of business—a company whose real value is a reputation for excellence built upon the collective skills, talents, perspectives, and backgrounds of its people. By accepting a position with Criterion Systems, you will join a group of professionals with a collaborative mindset where we share ideas and foster professional development to accomplish our goals. In addition to our great culture, we also offer competitive compensation and benefit packages, company-sponsored team building events, and advancement opportunities. To find out more about how Criterion can help you take your career to the next level please visit our website: www.criterion-sys.com. Criterion Systems is a Military/Veteran Friendly Company therefore we encourage Veterans to apply.

Responsibilities

We are seeking to hire a Linux System Engineer to support a government customer in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Duties, Tasks & Responsibilities

The candidate will be part of the Cybersecurity Engineering team working in a 24x7x365 operational environment. The position requires communication with customers via email and phone regarding service outages and support requests, and will provide and document any updates of service tickets and track problem resolution. The candidate will also support enterprise IT operations and call center teams by monitoring network hardware and applications, and execute engineering tasks to resolve issues. Applicant must be a positive, flexible, self-starter requiring minimal supervision, and able to excel in a fast-paced environment. Communication skills are critical with the ability to verbalize and provide documentation to both technical and non-technical audiences. Applicants must be detail-oriented and have the ability to multi-task effectively.

The Linux Engineer applies current technologies to the design, development, evaluation and integration of computer information systems and networks to maintain system security. Works with commercial computer product vendors in the design and evaluation of state-of-the-art secure operating systems, networks and database products and technology. Provides security engineering and integration services to internal customers. Involved in a wide range of issues including secure architectures, secure electronic data traffic, network security, information security and privacy. Develops security systems for any manual or automated systems environments. Responsible for ensuring the protection of company data against unauthorized disclosure, accidental or intentional loss of data, or unauthorized modification.

Follow up on technical issues with operations and call center teams and all stakeholders in resolution process.
Support software and hardware issues and ensure stable system performance.
Execute engineering tasks in support of system performance tuning on workstations, applications or network infrastructure in support Linux, Unix operating systems, such as patching and upgrading.
Partner with other team members to integrate Microsoft Windows services with Linux/Unix systems
Observe industry best practices, standards, and procedures.
Support maintenance and monitoring of the system/server infrastructure to include patching, system upgrade, backup, and configuration.
Conduct problem management process (root cause analysis) attempt to determine the root cause of an incident in order to prevent future recurrences
Support forensic analysis, triage and break fix of system server/server related trouble tickets.
Perform account management including user account creation and deletion.
Perform certification and professional development training to remain current on technologies and to improve skill sets and efficiency.

Qualifications

Required Experience, Education, Skills & Technologies

US Citizenship (no dual citizenship)
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Security or related technical discipline OR four (4) years professional IT experience may be used in lieu of degree.
Active Department of Energy (DOE) “Q” Clearance OR Top Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain required clearance. Candidate can work while clearance is underway.
Three (3) years of IT work enterprise experience with a preference in the job duties above
Familiarity with configuration management using Ansible
Knowledge in troubleshooting Linux and Ansible Automation Best Practices
Skilled in Linux-related scripting (Bash, Perl, Python, etc.)
Experience with Apache web server configuration and management
Experience analyzing and evaluating the security of new and existing IT systems and the procedures to protect information system assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure, or destruction.
Experience analyzing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of Information technology and security controls that are in place.
Knowledge and understanding of operating systems, networks and services.
Knowledge of Red Hat version 7, 8, and 9 (rhel7/rhel8/rhel9) with the ability to engineer, install, administer, upgrade, and maintain.
Experience evaluating security solutions to ensure they meet security requirements for processing classified information.
Manage changes to system and assesses the security impact of those changes.
Experience and/or familiarity with the following network protection devices: Firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), log analysis, malware analysis, network traffic flow and packet analysis
Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of best practices, trends related to information security
Strong research, analytical, and problem solving skills
Good communication skills including preparing and presenting results, findings and alternatives and influencing management decision making based on the best

Preferred Experience, Education, Skills & Technologies

Splunk
Satellite Server
Ansible
Nutanix
VMWare
git/bitbucket
Apache/TomCat/NGINX
Kerberos/LDAP/DNS
SSL
Squid Proxy
NetBox, other asset/inventory management
Troubleshooting RSYSLOG components
Whois
Sourcefire
Nagios

Pay Rate

The projected compensation range for this position is $85,000 - $100,000. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Criterion Systems considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.

Benefits Offered

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Tuition/Training Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid Time Off, and Holidays.

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