Cloud System Administrator 2

We're searching for talented individuals who provide intelligence, engineering, and mission management expertise for the Government. This program will maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of our country's most important missions both at home and abroad. If you are ready to support a high-performing team that truly makes a difference, then come join us!
Job Description:
The Cloud Administrator provides support for implementation and trouble shooting and maintenance on large Hadoop cloud clusters.
The Level 2 Cloud SA shall possess the following capabilities:

• Shall have at least three (3) years of experience managing and monitoring large distributed system (>1000 nodes)
• Shall have experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large scale cloud computing systems including familiarity with distributed systems for storage and retrieval of data e.g. Apache's Hadoop, Accumulo, CASSANDRA distributed databases, or SCALITY or SWIFT object stores.
• Shall have demonstrated ability to work within a pre-defined mission focused team structure, follow SOP's, communicate effectively, accept constructive feedback and receive technical guidance and advice from senior level technical resources.
• Shall have demonstrated a willingness to learn new technologies and leverage senior level resources to expand current technical foundation using team structure.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex tasks, show a willingness to educate and train more junior technical resources.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, communicate, lead and oversee complex technical tasks requiring interaction with multiple groups.
• Shall have demonstrated experience with configuration management tools including Puppet and SALT
• Expert understanding of the end to end Linux PXE/Network provisioning process to include familiarity with Anaconda Kickstart configurations, RAID controller utilities, TFTP images, and disk detect scripts.
• Experience accessing and troubleshooting systems via remote utilities to perform hardware diagnosis and repair including VNC, serial over LAN interfaces, and IPMI, BIOS-level configuration.
• Understanding of overall corporate architecture as well as familiarity with openSSL and Java keystore manipulation.
• Expert in troubleshooting commodity hardware platforms including previous experiences with SGI/HP hardware including SGI's J series.

Qualifications:

• Three (3) years experience is required
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics is highly desired and will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience.
• Advanced knowledge of SSH tunneling and protocols including the implementation of dynamic SOCKS proxies as well as other ssh-based utilities, including rysn, pdsh, pdcp, and WinSCP.
• Basic understanding of low level network concepts including vlans, port channel bonding and layer2/layer 3 switch interactions.
• Familiarity with software load balancers for large scale webservice implementations including haproxy and nginx
• Experience with Kubernetes orchestration services and Docker images.
• Experience with log aggregation and search tools including ElasticSearch, logstatsh, filebeats, Grafana, and rsyslog.

Certifications Required:

• Hadoop/Cloud System Administrator Certification or comparable Cloud System/Service Certification is required and DOD 8570 compliant.
• o AWS Certified Developer-Associate
• o AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
• o Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• o Elastic Certified Engineer

Position requires active Security Clearance with appropriate Polygraph