Linux System Administrator / Network Engineer

Dark Wolf Solutions is looking for a Linux System Administrator / Network Engineer who is interested in working in a fast-paced environment building and maintaining an extensive Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), platform and hypervisor stack for a DoD customer. The successful candidate will work with the team to develop new solutions to support customers' networking and virtualization needs, provide and develop documentation, and monitor security and performance of the platform and deployed services. Our engineers are asked to solve challenging problems for unique customers, and have a direct impact on the direction of software and hardware products used by those customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deploy and maintain critical services supporting primarily on-prem architecture with limited access to cloud-native services.


• Work with the Cybersecurity team by implementing industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management


• Use automation best practices, such as Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and Configuration-as-Code (CaC) for repeatability and fast provisioning of environments


• Work closely with development teams to provide onboarding support


• Ensure platform and networks are compliant with DoD policies


• Support backup and disaster recovery planning

Required Qualifications:

On site presence 3 days a week

• 3+ years of relevant experience administering Linux servers (ex. RHEL, Ubuntu)


• 3+ years of experience configuring firewalls and switches using modern enterprise vendor equipment (ex. Cisco, Palo Alto, Ubiquiti) 


• Experience administering VMware vSphere, vCenter, and ESXi


• Experience with administration of Linux endpoints (clients) and virtual machines


• HS Diploma


• US Citizenship and an active full Secret security clearance required

Interim clearances are not accepted for this position

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field


• Scripting experience including at least a subset of the following: Bash, Python, Terraform, Ansible


• Knowledge of Active Directory in addition to other identity federation systems such as LDAP


• Knowledge of observability tools, such as Splunk or Elasticsearch


• Experience using Git hosting services such as GitLab, GitHub and BitBucket

This location is located in College Park, MD. On-site presence is expected 3 days per week with the option of 2 days of remote work. The estimated salary range for this position is $70,000.00 - $130,000.00, commensurate on experience and technical interview. 

We are strictly looking for direct, full-time W2 employees. We do not engage with third-party staffing agencies, C2C, or 1099 independent contractors for this role.

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