SOL Engineering Services, LLC is an engineering and technical services provider with over 20 years of engineering and consulting experience. Our viability comes partly from utilizing the diverse backgrounds of the firm’s owners and the experiences of its team of approximately 100 engineers, scientists, technical subject matter experts, and program and project managers. Our hands-on project implementation approach encompasses management, quality, and engineering principles to ensure effective management and delivery of all projects. SOL’s reputation and keys to success are built on providing high-quality, responsive engineering and related technical services while maintaining professional commitments and ensuring that satisfaction is given to our clients throughout the United States.

SOL Engineering is seeking a qualified candidate to perform standard Linux System Administration. The ideal candidate will maintain the smooth operation of multi-user computer systems consisting of Linux-based application and license servers, virtual machines, and GP/GPU cluster-based systems. Coordination with network administrators is required.

Additional duties:

• Setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system-wide software, and allocating mass storage space.

• Developing and monitoring policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.

• Participating in the installation, integration, acceptance testing, and ongoing maintenance of our HPC systems and software environment.

• Assisting with forecast resource limitations and providing recommendations for increasing the efficiency of our resources through proper scheduling and load-balancing techniques.

  Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree and at least five years of experience (additional experience may be substituted for the degree)

• DoD 8570 certification: Security + and OS cert, Linux+, RedHat, etc. (90-day waiver may be provided to obtain the OS certification)

• Willingness to occasionally work after hours and respond to emergencies for problem resolution

• General knowledge of Linux and general Unix operating systems concepts, as well as systems administration experience

• Ability to develop and maintain documentation on system administration procedures for routine and complex tasks

• Ability to create and maintain Information Assurance (IA) compliance documentation of the Information System

  Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Experience with compiling, installing, and porting software.

• Ability to understand application scaling issues related to problem resolution and algorithm choice.

• Experience with Storage Architectures: SAN, SAS, FC, SATA, Bandwidth, Performance

• Ability to manage the development of appropriate application benchmarks, analyze results, and determine optimal configurations for processor type/speed, size of memory/cache, and memory interconnect fabric for customer problem domains.

• Familiar with multi-factor authentication platforms and solutions and Identity Management such as OpenID, LDAP, and Kerberos.

• Security implementations using multi-factor authentication, PKI, or Kerberos and Unix

• OS hardening to DoD STIG standards.

• Experience programming or troubleshooting Python code

• Experience with supporting Apache Web Server

• Experience with Zabbix

• Experience with Red Hat Satellite or Red Hat Identity Manager

• Experience with BIND DNS

• Experience with Ansible

• Experience with Gitlab

  We offer a competitive salary, health benefits, and paid vacation.

  Veterans, HUBZone residents, and individuals of HUD-assisted (Section 3) and Section 8 housing programs are encouraged to apply.

  SOL Engineering Services, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. "