Linux Application Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Linux Application Engineer
Location: Remote
This supports a Federal program and requires US Citizenship or Green Card/Permanent Resident with the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Note: This is a temporary role – Contractor (W2) only needed for THREE months.

Our client is seeking a Linux Application Engineer to support the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). This position is on the Applications Hosting team in the Operations and Engineering Branch, responsible for the organization’s infrastructure.

We are looking for a creative, customer-focused individual to provide exceptional service in supporting critical scientific research and clinical operations. The ideal candidate enjoys working on a team and will find the challenges and opportunities provided by a fast-paced customer-oriented environment satisfying. If you want to work with a dynamic group of dedicated, technical professionals on a collaborative team that supports a life-saving mission of global importance, we encourage you to apply.

HOW A LINUX APPLICATION ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

1. Configuring and supporting daily application management tasks, such as troubleshooting issues, deploying changes, installing and configuring new custom and third-party applications, remediating application security vulnerabilities, and optimizing performance settings.
2. Monitoring the health of applications and responding to alerts, such as service down, failed backup, slow response time, and full file systems.
3. Working closely with application owners and software engineers to identify requirements.
4. Planning and implementing projects, such as installing new custom applications with web services, database components, data hosting, load balancing, and advanced web application firewall (AWAF).
5. Automating daily processes and creating self-service capabilities to empower software developers and application owners to perform routine maintenance tasks, such as renewing TLS certificates, changing service account passwords, and rebooting application servers.
6. Researching and recommending innovative approaches for application hosting to modernize our customers‘ hosting environment and speed up delivery times.
7. Documenting daily administrative processes and configuration information about our customers‘ applications.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education:
– Bachelor’s degree. In lieu of degree, four years of experience on top of 5 years required experience.

Required Experience:
– Minimum of five years hands-on experience with Linux/Unix variants, especially RedHat/RHEL version 7.x/8.x/9.x and its derivatives, including best practices for deploying LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) applications and supporting variants of LAMP such as Tomcat, Java, Python, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.

Top 3 skills required for this position:
– Expert knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x/8.x & 9.x to include troubleshooting complex issues, configuration best practices, security hardening, and automated provisioning.
– Experience in creating, applying, and troubleshooting TLS certificates for web servers such as Tomcat, Apache, or nginx.
– Experience with Puppet configuration management system and writing Puppet manifests or equivalent experience with Ansible or Chef.

Required Technical Skills:
– Expert knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x/8.x & 9.x to include troubleshooting complex issues, configuration best practices, security hardening, and automated provisioning.
– Experience in managing hardware load balanced applications.
– Experience in creating, applying, and troubleshooting TLS certificates for web servers such as Tomcat, Apache, or nginx.
– Experience with Puppet configuration management system and writing Puppet manifests or equivalent experience with Ansible or Chef.
– Experience installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting MySQL, MariaDB, and Postgres databases.

Required Skills and Abilities:
– Experience designing and implementing technologies following NIST standards, such as SP 800-53, SP 800-190, and SP 500-291.
– Strong scripting experience with Python, Bash, Java, or Ruby.
– Experience developing and implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to deploy infrastructure and applications using tools such as GoCD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions.
– Experience breaking down monolithic applications into microservices and Docker containers.

Preferred Qualifications:
– Experience with access and authentication technologies, such as LDAP, SimpleSAML, or Kerberos.
– Experience managing EC2 instances, containers, applications deployment and troubleshooting on AWS.
– Knowledge of layer 3 networking technologies, such as switching and routing.
– Knowledge of enterprise storage protocols, such as NFS v4, CIFS, and SMB.
– Experience with content management and learning frameworks such as Drupal 7.x & 8.x or Moodle on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Security Clearance Level: Must be able to obtain a NIH Public Trust.

An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

Job Category: System Admin/Eng/Analysis
Job ID: 16481
Job Title: Linux Application Engineer
Job Location: Remote
Hourly Pay Rate: 60.00 – 65.00
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