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We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry.\nWe are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud & Distributed Systems Engineer to support mission-critical, cloud-based data repositories serving thousands of Intelligence Community users. This role operates in a dynamic, high-tempo operational environment where requirements evolve rapidly in response to global events. The selected candidate will administer and engineer large-scale Hadoop and Accumulo clusters, ensure system reliability and security, and collaborate across infrastructure, networking, and security domains to maintain continuous mission availability.\nThis is not a traditional system administration role - it is a reliability-focused distributed systems engineering position operating at scale.\nDue to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).\nCapabilities\nMonitor system health, performance, and reliability across large, distributed clusters\nTroubleshoot and resolve complex hardware, software, network, and cloud platform issues\nPerform root cause analysis (RCA) and contribute to post-incident reviews\nMaintain and optimize large-scale Hadoop and Accumulo environments\nAdminister and maintain distributed storage systems\nEngineer and improve monitoring, observability, and alerting frameworks\nParticipate in architecture and engineering design discussions\nCreate and maintain automation scripts and Infrastructure-as-Code deployments\nPatch, upgrade, and harden systems in accordance with security compliance standards\nAdminister LDAP-based user and group accounts\nMaintain hardware inventory and asset tracking\nProvide after-hours on-call support in a mission-driven environment\nInterface with hardware, network, infrastructure, and security teams\nRequired Qualifications\nTS/SCI with agency appropriate poly\nMinimum 3 years experience administering large distributed systems \n7 years Linux systems administration experience\n5 years scripting experience\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field highly desired\nMay substitute for two (2) years of experience\nRequired Technical Skills\nLinux Systems Administration (7+ Years)\nDeep understanding of Linux operating systems and internals\nUser and group account management (LDAP)\nConfiguration and administration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP\nSystem patching, upgrades, and security hardening\nPerformance tuning and resource optimization\nDistributed Systems & Cluster Administration (3+ Years)\nExperience supporting large distributed systems consisting of:\nMultiple clusters\nClusters spanning at least three racks\nMinimum of 60 nodes per site\nExperience with:\nHadoop (HDFS, YARN tuning)\nAccumulo (tablet balancing, performance optimization)\nCassandra, Scality, Swift, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or comparable technologies\nCloud & Container Technologies\nKubernetes orchestration services (CKA-level knowledge preferred)\nDocker containerization and image management\nHelm charts and cluster configuration\nStatefulSets and persistent volume management\nCloud-based storage architectures\nAutomation & Infrastructure as Code\n5+ years scripting in Bash, Python, or Perl\nExperience with configuration management tools:\no Puppet\no Ansible\no Salt\nInfrastructure as Code:\no Terraform or CloudFormation\nCI/CD pipeline integration and Git-based workflows\nObservability & Reliability Engineering\nExperience implementing and managing monitoring solutions such as:\no Prometheus / Grafana\no ELK / OpenSearch\no Splunk\no Cloud-native monitoring platforms\nDesign and tuning of alerting frameworks\nExperience defining and supporting SLAs/SLOs\nIncident response participation and documentation\nCapacity planning and performance analysis\nNetworking & Infrastructure\nUnderstanding of VLANs, port channel bonding, and Layer 2/Layer 3 interactions\nTCP/IP troubleshooting\nLoad balancing (F5, HAProxy, NGINX)\nFirewall rule management\nNetwork performance analysis\nStorage & High Availability\nRAID and storage architecture knowledge\nObject storage optimization\nData replication and backup strategies\nMulti-site failover and disaster recovery (DR) planning\nRPO/RTO considerations\nActive/Active or Active/Passive cluster design\nSecurity & Compliance\nSystem hardening (STIG implementation preferred)\nVulnerability scanning tools (e.g., ACAS/Nessus)\nRMF familiarity\nSecurity logging and audit compliance\nExperience operating in TS/SCI environments\nOne of the following certifications is required:\nAWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate\nAWS DevOps Engineer - Professional\nCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)\nOperational Environment\nMission-critical cloud repositories supporting thousands of users\nHigh-tempo, operationally responsive environment\nDaily interaction with infrastructure, hardware, and security teams\nRequirements shift in response to world events and mission needs\nEmphasis on automation-first operations and continuous improvement\nIdeal Candidate Profile\nThe successful candidate:\nThinks like a reliability engineer, not just a system administrator\nAutomates repetitive processes and improves operational maturity\nRemains calm and analytical during high-impact incidents\nUnderstands distributed systems behavior at scale\nCommunicates effectively across technical domains\nThrives in mission-driven, dynamic environments\nThe Benefits Package\n Wyetech believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. The company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching. All contributions are fully vested from day one, ensuring immediate ownership of retirement funds.\nAdditional benefits include:\nWyetech provides a generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually, aligned with applicable state leave regulations. 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