# Senior UNIX System Engineer

Overview/ Job Responsibilities Position is contingent upon contract award and funding. Entarian is looking for a Senior UNIX System Engineer for a mixed and growing environment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Oracle Enterprise Linux and Solaris UNIX. The responsibilities include but are not limited to: Working with the existing UNIX team to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot and support servers for a mixed customer environment Planning, executing, and implementing new system Hardware and Software and create and maintain team technical instructions, operating procedures and policies as needed Monitoring and tuning system performance, ongoing operation of the servers, hardening of the servers and reporting of the overall security and operational status Recommend improvements to the enterprise and manage new SW/HW integration when required while also providing utilization reports using existing tools to identify problems and corrective actions as needed Excellent communication and team skills Provide support toward the lifecycle of a mixed environment of vendor equipment in the data center to include firmware version control and periodic preventive maintenance Be able to recommend, d

- **Id**: 3724901
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/entarian-senior-unix-system-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Radford, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T04:47:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T13:11:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4225
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space Services, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 2163029
- **Name**: Entarian
- **Domain**: entarian.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/entarian>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 140000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 140000

## Technologies

- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Red Hat** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T04:47:27Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 94
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.993
- **P room**: 0.945
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:3, urgency, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 140000
- **Is top pay**: no

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