Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Systems Administrator with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Laurel, MD.  Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM

The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community.  We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013.  We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

THE PROJECT

The Sponsor requires support specializing in development and maintenance of, platform computing infrastructure to include management of servers, workstations, printers and peripheral devices. Work will include development and administration of Atlassian websites and applications. The Contractor shall provide operations and maintenance (O&M), system engineering and application development for Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and newly developed and customized applications for Sponsor systems. The Contractor shall install, upgrade, patch, and perform maintenance on hosts (hypervisors) that contain virtual machines, and any virtualization hardware and software necessary to operate and maintain the virtual infrastructure. The Contractor shall provide support for deployment packaging, program management, system maintenance and troubleshooting for software and hardware components to maintain sustainability and reliability of the Sponsor’s systems and applications. These hypervisor systems must continue without unplanned interruption and meet Sponsor approved timelines for new development activities. The Contractor shall ensure that all development and modifications to existing Sponsor applications comply with Sponsor’s security accreditation and authorization requirements, governance policies and regulations. The Contractor shall communicate and collaborate across organizational boundaries, to include other contractor teams. The Contractor shall work with Sponsor staff and contractor personnel, as well as external stakeholders.

THE ROLE

• Provide expert support in the administration and maintenance of the Enterprise Linux infrastructure.
• Provide support in information security system requirements and design applicable to Linux hosts.
• Provide technical input and assist in the maintenance of system administration, security policy and procedure documentation.
• Document the system configuration to include dependencies to external services, known good operational configurations (Authentication/Authorization/Accounting (AAA), allocated system resources, etc.) and standard operating procedures (startup/shutdown, backup, upgrade, etc.).
• Ensure compliance with Sponsor’s Security compliance requirements.
• Provide technical input to assist in the cloud hosting strategic direction of the system.
• Configure, upgrade, and troubleshoot Configuration Management tool components including Linux and Database Administration.
• Develop monitoring dashboards to alert on software operational status.

Required Skills

• Using puppet or other software configuration management tool.
• Managing Linux system patches.
• Demonstrated experience with scanning and mitigating IAVA vulnerabilities.
• Demonstrated experience with SYSLOG data and server environment.
• Demonstrated experience with Linux (RHEL, CENTOS, or similar).
• Demonstrated experience performing system administration with applications such Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby or similar scripting tools or software, etc.
• Demonstrated experience with Database Administration.
• Demonstrated experience with configuration management.
• Demonstrated experience with system monitoring such as reviewing memory or processes using Linux commands such as top and PS.
• Demonstrated experience with general troubleshooting skills in Linux, and Puppet.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated experience with or understanding of authentication and authorization fundamentals in Sponsor’s IT environment.
• Demonstrated experience with web application development.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining a VMware or Hyper-V infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience with Windows Operating Systems.
• Demonstrated experience or familiarity with Server/RAID.
• Demonstrated programming experience in bash, ruby, or python.
• Demonstrated understanding of authentication and authorization fundamentals within the Sponsor or Sponsor’s partner’s network.
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience in identifying, integrating and implementing technology-enabled solutions and industry-best practices for the Sponsor.
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience with Greenlight/XACTA.
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience supporting and managing a Hadoop environment.
• Certifications:
  • Atlassian Certification
  • Microsoft Certifications
  • Cisco Network Certifications
  • Linux Certifications
  • VMware Certifications
  • ITIL certifications
  • Cloudera Certified Administrator

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you. 

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generously-funded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution; 
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.