Junior Systems Admin
Orchard LLC

Junior Systems Admin
Herndon, VA

@Orchard LLC has been retained by a true innovator within the Intelligence and Defense community, committed to putting the well-being of their employees at a similar level of importance as their focus on client mission. We are supporting their search for a Junior Systems Admin to support a dynamic, challenging and engaged Special Operations customer with the development, integration, and maintenance of commercial and government software platforms within the larger framework of governmental enterprise software solutions.

As a Junior Systems Admin you will:

• Monitor and act on any hardware and software outages on the platform
• Engage with tenants and users of the OpenStack Cloud Platform via chat services to assist them with trouble shooting and requests as needed
• Implement cyber security remediations in close cooperation with the cyber security team
• Upgrade and deploy applications on the platform
• Integrate new hardware into multiple different compute clusters
• Review and update existing procedures and documentation

Junior Systems Admin Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret clearance with an ability to obtain SCI access and willingness to obtain CI Polygraph
• US Citizenship required
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
• Willing to work 100% onsite in a secure environment
• Basic linux skills (3-5 years admin): Install/update/administer linux (rhel/rocky/debian/ubuntu).
• Be able to manage bare-metal hardware installs (pxe/manual/automated install of OS). Working skillset including: users, applications, OS packages, kernel/OS configuration, filesystems (xfs, ext4, nfs, fuse), networks, firewall, security/hardening (STIG, OSCAP).
• Hardware skills (3-5 years, various hardware vendors: Dell/SM/HPE): Hands on experience racking systems, connecting network and direct attach storage devices.
• Familiar with storage hardware: NAS, SAN, direct attach, sata/sas/nvme drive.
• Working knowledge of PCIe cards: Raid/network/GPU/other.
• Basic knowledge of HPC technologies (experience work of at least 1-3 years) such as parallel/distributed file systems (e.g. Lustre, Ceph, GPFS, GlusterFS, BeeGFS) high speed interconnect fabrics (e.g. Infiniband, Omni-path, RoCE)
• HPC batch schedulers (e.g. PBSpro, OpenPBS, SLURM, Torque, HTCondor, SGE)
• Basic understanding of how HPC environments function
• Able to work with users and help them understand how HPC systems function

Additional Qualifications we would like to see:

• • Nice to have working knowledge of cluster managers (Bright Cluster Manager now named Base Command Manager; xCAT, Warewulf, Rocks, Scyld)
  • The willingness to gain a better understanding of HPC methods and applications, someone who wants to be mentored.

Established in 2010, @Orchard LLC, also known as, Talent Orchard has an exceptional reputation, providing staffing solutions to time-sensitive, talent scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI. Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management, not in one narrow skillset, but across many areas of technical and functional delivery. To learn more about our other exciting opportunities, visit our Jobs Page at www.atOrchard.com.

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