# Senior Linux System Administrator

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Stennis Space Center, MS
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $90,950 - $123,050
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Senior Linux System Administrator role involves managing servers that process data from a global network of buoys, managed by the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). The position is located at the NDBC facility at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

Responsibilities:

- Provide 24x7x365 on-call support for primary IT mission essential data processing, applications, and functions.

- Support IT architecture improvements to ensure continuity of operations for primary mission essential functions and the flow of data.

- Participate in annual NDBC IT Assessment and Authorization (A&A) audits through security patching and security-minded configuration updates.

- Maintain all Linux-based servers and clients located on premises and in an AWS cloud environment.

- Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.

- Implement strategies to automate routine administration tasks.

- Maintain and monitor data center environmental equipment.

Requirements:

- 8 years or more experience in the installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of IT system hardware and software and related IT infrastructure.

- Demonstrated advanced knowledge and experience supporting Red Hat Linux, Apache, Tomcat, drivers, applications, vulnerabilities, security requirements and postures, quarterly STIG updates.

- Knowledge of AWS solutions and migration of Linux systems is considered a plus.

- An understanding of programming languages, such as Java, Python, PHP, and Perl.

The likely salary range for this position is $90,950 - $123,050.

## Skills

### Required
- Linux
- System Administration
- Red Hat Linux
- Apache
- Tomcat
- AWS

### Nice to have
- Java
- Python
- PHP
- Perl
- AWS lambda
- containers
- EC2 instances

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