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Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.\nEmpower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2024 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the company’s commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees.\nResponsibilities\nThe Senior UNIX System Engineer supports a mixed and growing environment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and Solaris UNIX systems. Working alongside the existing UNIX team, this position manages, maintains, deploys, troubleshoots, and supports servers across a mixed customer environment, planning and implementing new system hardware and software while creating and maintaining team technical instructions, operating procedures, and policies.\nThis is a remote-eligible position. Local candidates in the Roanoke and Radford, Virginia area are encouraged to apply, and work may be performed locally for those who prefer an on-site or hybrid arrangement. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on UNIX/Linux systems engineering expertise, strong DoD cybersecurity compliance knowledge, and the ability to support mission-critical Army IT services across enterprise data centers and cloud-hosted environments. Occasional travel to government facilities or data center locations may be required based on mission needs.\nKey Responsibilities\nManage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot, and support servers in a mixed Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Oracle Enterprise Linux/Solaris UNIX environment.\nPlan, execute, and implement new system hardware and software.\nCreate and maintain team technical instructions, operating procedures, and policies.\nMonitor and tune system performance; harden servers and report on overall security and operational status.\nRecommend and implement enterprise improvements and manage new software/hardware integrations.\nProduce utilization reports using existing tools to identify problems and corrective actions.\nSupport the lifecycle of a mixed vendor equipment environment in the datacenter, including firmware version control and periodic preventive maintenance.\nRecommend, demonstrate, and implement technologies to expand, upgrade, and increase efficiency of the current environment.\nQualifications\nRequirements:\nCompTIA Security+.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is preferred; equivalent years of hands-on UNIX/Linux systems engineering experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.\nExperience in Computer Science or IT.\nComputing Environment (CE) Certification (e.g., RedHat) - may be waived for 30 days after project join date.\nActive DoD Secret Security Clearance.\nFive or more years' experience as a UNIX Systems Administrator or IT Engineer with experience automating assigned tasks.\nThree or more years' experience in patch management, including applying security updates via YUM and RPM.\nThree or more years' experience working in complex network environments, including VLANs and troubleshooting tools (ifconfig, netstat, ssh, telnet), and hardening systems using firewalld/iptables and hosts.\nThree or more years' experience managing a large pool of local users via the command line.\nThree or more years' experience creating, maintaining, and following Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable processes, disaster recovery, and common problem resolution.\nThree or more years' experience configuring and maintaining key services such as DNS, SFTP, SMTP, and NTP.\nStrong interpersonal skills and willingness to be a team player.\nPreferred:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent years of experience.\nFour or more years' experience with SELinux, including basic and advanced management and configuration.\nExperience supporting Cybersecurity patch management and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG), Security Requirement Guides (SRG), RMF, SCA-V, and Cyber Operational Readiness Assessments (CORA).\nExperience deploying large-scale hardware/software systems enhancements or upgrades across widely distributed geographic sites.\nExperience with current and emerging network and infrastructure management technologies and business practices.\nCertifications:\nCompTIA Security+ | RedHat Computing Environment (CE) Certification\nAbout Empower AI\nAll hiring and promotion decisions at Empower AI are based on merit to bring the best talent available to contribute to our firm’s overall success. It is the policy of Empower AI not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status. 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