Linux Cloud Administrator

Medical Science & Computing (MSC), now a Guidehouse company is seeking skilled Linux Cloud Administrators to support our work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD.  All work is being performed remotely until a safe return to campus has been discovered.

 

The selected candidate will assist with the operation and continuing development of NCBI's cloud services environment based in both Google GCP and Amazon AWS.  The ideal candidate will be comfortable with an environment that is constantly changing and can work closely with developers and operations managers responsible for stable production services. 

 

 

 

 

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide support to developers and production services operating in NCBI's Amazon AWS and Google GCP environments
• Participate in discussions of ongoing technical and management efforts, including new architecture
• Participate in evaluation and implementation of new technologies
• Ongoing operation and maintenance of existing services
• Assist with development of tools to help monitor and manage the cloud environments and enforce established policies.

 

 

 

 

Requirements

 

Required qualifications:

 

• Bachelor's Degree

  • OR equivalent industry experience in Software Development/Linux Systems Administration

• At least five years of experience with Linux systems administration, particularly CentOS 7 or RedHat 7.
• Experience managing Cloud resources within Amazon AWS or Google's Cloud Platform, particularly:
  • User management
  • Roles and permissions
  • Compute instances
  • VPCs and subnets
  • routing
  • firewall rules/security groups
• Experience writing scripts to automate management tasks
• Some programming experience, applicable to developing cloud management tools  (one or more of Bourne/Bash shell, Ruby, Python, Perl)
• Self-starter, able to work independently
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• Familiarity with networking concepts (subnetting, basic routing, UDP, TCP, ICMP)
• Ability to manage firewall rules
• Strong troubleshooting skills

 

 

Preferred qualifications:

 

• Familiarity with managing continuous integration tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, or GitLab.
• Experience with MS Windows systems administration
• Experience with Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services
• Experience managing resources with Puppet
• Experience writing code to automate management of cloud resources via their native CLI or API
• Experience with cloud automation tools (Packer, Terraform, cloud-init)
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as nagios, splunk, telegraf, influxdb.
• Experience with cloud monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail.  
• Familiarity with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, bitbucket)
• Experience with Git
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Experience programming in Bourne/Bash Shell, Ruby, Python, Perl

 

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Company Description

Dovel Technologies and its Family of Companies (Medical Science & Computing and Ace Info Solutions) was acquired in October 2021.

 

Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has more than 12,000 professionals in over 50 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies.

 

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