Linux Server Administrator (Bisl)

Octo, an IBM company, is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. At Octo, we specialize in providing agile software engineering, user experience design, cloud services, and digital strategy services that address government's most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results, yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.

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• Data Quality: Address any Data Quality issues between the VistA sites and the CDW shadow-copies of the sites.
• Work with external Linux distribution partner engineering teams to package and distribute Linux software.
• General mastery of Linux Server platforms - Red Hat, CentOS. Ubuntu, Oracle Linux, SuSE Linux; specifically, application packaging, evaluation, and lifecycle support.
• Work across internal engineering teams (Kubernetes, Operating Systems/kernel, Open Source, etc.)
• Troubleshoot Linux issues to root cause and fix software and infrastructure issues.
• System Administration: Maintain the configuration of CDW shadow-servers (Linux), Maintain Data Filers (Windows), apply updates, firmware updates.
• Data Check Management: Develop enhancements to the Data Check methods used to compare site databases with shadow-copies of site databases.
• Other Technical Tasks: Software tool management, system monitoring, site migrations and upgrades, eHRM/Cerner Support, VX-130 Support, and CDW initiative coordination.
• Monitor and manage critical Linux infrastructure services.

Requirements...

• Experience with Linux automation and integration; either with COTS solutions or custom scripting.
• Ability to self-manage, maintain virtual meetings, and determine customer requirements, while meeting project deadlines.
• Ability to test and certify inter-compatibility with latest versions of Linux Servers and applications.
• Experience with Server migration, to include performance analysis and cloud sizing exercises.
• Experience with Linux based application performance testing - ability to determine impact an application will have on network latency and bandwidth, disk IO and latency, CPU, memory, etc. using COTS and Linux embedded toolsets.
• Experience with Active Directory integration in a many-site deployment; to include group policy objects.
• Demonstrated ability to work with customers to develop and test (MEMCM) application deployments for enterprise deployments, to include lifecycle support for eventual application upgrade and removal.
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite 6.X. Experience with Red Hat Ansible/Ansible Tower
• Prefer experience supporting Department of Veterans Affairs or other federal organizations

Years of Experience: Must have at least 5 years of Linux Server administration experience. Strongly prefer experience with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Education: BA/BS degree in a computer discipline, or equivalent applicable experience.

Location: Remote within the United States.

Clearance: Ability to obtain government clearance.