Job Description

Senior Linux VMWare Operations Engineer

KeyLogic is currently recruiting for a Senior Linux VMWare Operations Engineer and Deputy Team Lead to support our Federal Client in Alexandria, VA with a hybrid telework arrangement.

Description:

The Senior Linux VMWare Operations Engineer will support the client’s Infrastructure Services Division’s (ISD) Operating Systems Operations Section (OSOS) by performing administration and maintenance activities on over 8000 RHEL/HPUX/AIX servers in use.   Additionally, the candidate will have a secondary role as the Deputy Team Lead regarding the day-to-day tasks and operations of the team. The candidate should be a self-starter and one not afraid to undertake and lead a project from beginning to end accompanied with broad technical exposure is the ideal candidate.  The selected candidate will work the daytime shift Monday through Friday.

The servers supported are located in both production and lab data centers located at the client’s campus in Alexandria, VA. Additional remote support is provided for systems located at the Federal Client’s Alternate Processing Site (APS) located in Manassas, VA.

Duties performed will include, but are not limited to, the following:

·        Provide escalation support from subordinates and junior resources, including on-call rotation support.

·        Ensure proper planning and execution of major projects and O&M (operations and maintenance) activities.

·        Mentor and direct junior staff in the course of daily assignments and projects to promote a collaborative learning environment

·        Troubleshoot hardware, Operating System, and software problems with Linux and VMWare servers.

·        Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures for server builds, configurations, and scheduled maintenance activities.

·        Provide suggestions and best practices for various activities and communicate them to stakeholders at various technical levels

·        Install and configure ESXi hypervisors, vCenter servers, create data centers, clusters, add hosts, and configure their firewall, services and advanced settings.

·        Setup and configure virtual switches, port groups, and VLANs in VMWare

·        Configure HA, DRS and setup affinity rules on each VMWare cluster as needed.

·        Perform storage expansion, migration, and reclamations on block storage from SAN, familiarity with boot-from-SAN on RHEL is preferred.

·        Perform cyber-security remediation and server hardening as needed.

·        Write custom shell scripts to poll server inventory for health and configuration data within the environment.

·        Work on assigned change requests/incident tickets.

·        Investigate and responding to alerts generated by the various monitoring systems in use at USPTO.

·        Evaluate and implementing potential new tools and technologies.

·        Provide vCenter permissions to users as well as creating folders, placing VMs under folders to provide access rights to certain users\groups to be able to manage their VMs.

·        Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot all issues that might arise in the VMware virtual environment.

·        Install and troubleshoot physical and virtual server’s performance and connectivity issues.

·        Patch and update hypervisor’s baseline using Update Manager.

·        Perform Cisco UCS service profile migration.

·        Maintain documentation for processes and procedures as required.

·        Perform detailed analysis of incidents - utilize log management tools and performance data to author and submit RCA (Root Cause Analysis) reports following service outages

·        Perform hardware repair procedures and activities.

Work Experience/Skills Requirements

The successful candidate will have experience in the following areas:

·        7+ years of experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

·        7+ years of experience with VMWare vCenter and ESXi hypervisors

·        5+ years of experience supporting Tomcat, Apache, JBoss, Oracle, and MySQL.

·        Knowledge of Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) or oVirt

·        Knowledge of Cisco UCS and managing systems via UCSCentral

·        Ability to write shell scripts in bash.

·        Ability to write custom Ansible playbooks and run them across the environment 

·        RHCE Certification is highly recommended

·        VCP Certification is highly recommended

·        Experience in supervision of teams and personnel

The ideal candidate also has experience in the following areas:

·        Rocky Linux (or other Open Source Enterprise Linux)

·        Red Hat Satellite 6 or Katello

·        Red Hat Identity Management (IDM) or FreeIPA

·        Foreman

·        Puppet

·        Powershell/PowerCLI

·        HP-UX

·        IBM AIX

·        Windows Server

A Bachelor’s Degree is strongly preferred. 

Clearance Requirements:

Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to hold a security clearance. You do not need a current/active clearance to apply, but must be able to pass a government Public Trust (SF-85) background investigation.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

Qualifications

Work Experience/Skills Requirements

The successful candidate will have experience in the following areas:

·        7+ years of experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

·        7+ years of experience with VMWare vCenter and ESXi hypervisors

·        5+ years of experience supporting Tomcat, Apache, JBoss, Oracle, and MySQL.

·        Knowledge of Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) or oVirt

·        Knowledge of Cisco UCS and managing systems via UCSCentral

·        Ability to write shell scripts in bash.

·        Ability to write custom Ansible playbooks and run them across the environment 

·        RHCE Certification is highly recommended

·        VCP Certification is highly recommended

·        Experience in supervision of teams and personnel

The ideal candidate also has experience in the following areas:

·        Rocky Linux (or other Open Source Enterprise Linux)

·        Red Hat Satellite 6 or Katello

·        Red Hat Identity Management (IDM) or FreeIPA

·        Foreman

·        Puppet

·        Powershell/PowerCLI

·        HP-UX

·        IBM AIX

·        Windows Server

A Bachelor’s Degree is strongly preferred. 

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Job Description

Job Description:

KeyLogic is actively seeking a Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Lead to enable our operational counterparts advanced analytics support to promote the rapid analysis of national level cyber threats and incidents.  The hours for the position are Monday through Friday core hours but the ideal candidate will provide technical support on-call to a 24x7 cyber program in the areas of cyber threat intelligence, cyber hunt, and incident response.

Corporate duties such as solution/proposal development, corporate culture development, mentoring employees, supporting recruiting efforts, will also be required.  The program is currently operating on a Hybrid schedule with onsite work to be performed in Alexandria, VA.  Contingent upon completing a program-based background investigation.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Cyber Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
• Active Top Secret Clearance, with SCI eligibility.
• A minimum of four (4) years of professional experience with a solid understanding of incident response, insider threat investigations, forensics, cyber threats and information security.
• A minimum of four (4) years of experience as a Tier III senior cyber security analyst performing intelligence analysis, collection management, and technical analysis.Hands-On experience that includes host-based and network-based security monitoring using cybersecurity capabilities.  Some of the hands-on experience must be recent within the past 2 years.
• The candidate must possess a strong cyber security background with experience in: host-based and network-based forensics related to the identification of advanced cyber threat activities, intrusion detection, incident response, malware analysis, security content development (e.g., signatures, rules etc.), and cyber threat intelligence.
• Must have experience in developing scripts to support cyber threat detection that outputs results in a variety of formats, such as Powershell and Javascript and REST API, Python, C++, and HTML, XML or other type most appropriate for the task.
• Must have experience in conducting cyber threat analysis, identifying mitigation and remediation courses of action; developing actionable intelligence used to protect organizational IT assets; and trending cyber threat metrics for leadership situational awareness.
• Must have experience in maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the cyber threat landscape, including identifying and analyzing cyber threats actors and activities to enhance cybersecurity posture of the organization’s IT operating environment.
• Ability and experience extracting and managing complex large data sets.
• Strong documentation and written communication skills with technical report writing experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret Clearance, with SCI eligibility.
• Demonstrated understanding  of  incident  response,  insider  threat  investigations, forensics, cyber threats and information security. 

Hybrid Schedule:  

3 Days Onsite - 1 Week, 2 Days Onsite the Following Week.  Schedule will alternate every week.  

KeyLogic offers a very competitive benefits package including paid health insurance coverage from first day of employment, 401k with a vested company match, vacation and supplemental insurance benefits.

KeyLogic is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). M/F/D/V.

Citizenship Clearance Requirement
Applicants selected may be subject to a government security investigation - Applicants must meet eligibility requirements – US CITIZENSHIP and AGENCY CLEARANCE REQUIRED.

Qualifications

Desired Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret Clearance, with SCI eligibility.
• Demonstrated understanding  of  incident  response,  insider  threat  investigations, forensics, cyber threats and information security. 

Hybrid Schedule:  

3 Days Onsite - 1 Week, 2 Days Onsite the Following Week.  Schedule will alternate every week.  

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Platform Automation Support Specialist 

Job Description or Summary:

KeyLogic is seeking Platform Services Automation Specialist with strong systems, software, and Agile experience to support our program at the USPTO. 

Job Duties:

As a DevOps Platform Engineer, you will be working closely with our Automation teams to develop USPTO's Platform Services environment. This is a Full-Time position and work location will be at the KeyLogic's office in Alexandria, VA.

Job Requirements or Skills Required:

Engineer and deploy hybrid-cloud solutions for enterprise environments by leveraging Configuration management tools such as Puppet and IaC tools such as Ansible and Terraform

Design and implementation of automated infrastructure in on-prem and cloud environments.

Design and implementation of CI/CD, testing and operations infrastructure on-premise and in cloud

Required Skills:

5+ years of hands-on experience in Linux/Unix, HP-UX, and Windows server administration

3+ years of hands-on experience developing Puppet modules for platform products.

2+ years of hands-on experience with DevOps using Terraform, Ansible, etc.

2+ years of hands-on experience working with containers, and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

2+ years of hands-on experience with CI/CD tools, such as GitHub, Jenkins, Jenkins Pipeline, Maven, and Nexus

At least entry-level certification in at least one of the three major CSPs (AWS, Google, or Azure)

Experience with automation/orchestration platforms and tools such as Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat CloudForms, Puppet, Chef and Ansible

Experience working with defining, configuring, and building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub actions and other automation techniques.

Experience working within an Agile Environment and working with Agile tools such as JIRA and Rally

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s in computer science or related field

Qualifications

Required Skills:

5+ years of hands-on experience in Linux/Unix, HP-UX, and Windows server administration

3+ years of hands-on experience developing Puppet modules for platform products.

2+ years of hands-on experience with DevOps using Terraform, Ansible, etc.

2+ years of hands-on experience working with containers, and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

2+ years of hands-on experience with CI/CD tools, such as GitHub, Jenkins, Jenkins Pipeline, Maven, and Nexus

At least entry-level certification in at least one of the three major CSPs (AWS, Google, or Azure)

Experience with automation/orchestration platforms and tools such as Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat CloudForms, Puppet, Chef and Ansible

Experience working with defining, configuring, and building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub actions and other automation techniques.

Experience working within an Agile Environment and working with Agile tools such as JIRA and Rally

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s in computer science or related field

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