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Job Title: Platform Engineer
Location: DC
Duration: Perm/Direct Hire
Pay Rate: With a Secret Clearance: $140,000-$170,000 a year; With a TS/SCI Clearance: $190,000-$230,000
Job Description:
Serve as Platform engineer on a cross-functional team to help solve pressing problems
Keep Systems running smoothly and securely
Serve as the team's expert and owner for all things systems administration
Be the first line of defense against a variety of threats to the uptime of your servers
Proactively keep things safe and secure through implementation of best practices
Follow monitoring alerts and log messages to the source of trouble
Triage outages and work with team to understand issues and how to fix them
Administer enterprise Linux servers including:
Operating system patching
Security hardening, monitoring, and troubleshooting
Administer AWS cloud accounts with Terraform
Troubleshoot and debug via the AWS Console and CLI
Handle operations of data storage and indexing systems
Including monitoring, backup management, and upgrades
Configure and maintain web servers including monitoring and configuration management
Work with IT teams to coordinate changes and troubleshoot intersystem problems
Qualifications:
Experience with Linux system administration
Ability to troubleshoot server hardware failures
Understanding of Amazon Web Services
Applied knowledge in operating system security and hardening
Ability to automate repetitive tasks using Ansible, Python, or similar language
Experience with patch and configuration management
Experience in an enterprise production environment
Exposure to the operation and configuration of database and web server technologies
Experience with the following:
Prometheus, Grafana, Puppet, Ansible, Python
Oracle, Postgres, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch
Date Posted: 30 March 2025
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