System Administrator / Technical Support Engineer

Company Description

VEA is an award winning, nationally recognized, small, minority company based in Washington, DC.

Job Description

Responsible for designing, implementing, integrating, testing, and supporting analytics-related infrastructure: physical, virtual, and software-based. You’ll focus on automation of the infrastructure and system and software build, test, and deployment.  You will be responsible for mentoring and guiding other team members in your area of expertise while learning from them.

Qualifications

●       Design, implement and manage the team’s physical, virtual, and containerized infrastructure.

●       Automate and maintain infrastructure configuration, software build, integration, test, and deployment processes.

●       Create a “hands-off” environment for system build, test, integration, deployment, and upgrades to enable the delivery of turn-key solutions to closed-network environments.

●       Administer and support tools used by the field operations team.

●       Assist field operations with deployments and upgrades.

●       Share your knowledge and mentor the team in your areas of expertise.

●       Demonstrated experience with Docker and Docker-related clustering (e.g., Docker Swarm, Kubernetes).

●       Demonstrated experience with Power shell scripting.

●       Demonstrated experience with Chocolatey.

●       Demonstrated experience with continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) technologies and processes (e.g., Jenkins).

●       Demonstrated experience deploying software-intensive systems that include Web, middleware, and back-end database technologies.

●       Demonstrated experience with Ansible.

●       Experience as a system administrator, network administrator, systems engineer, or similar discipline, with strong experience in Linux and desired experience in Windows.

●       Experience with designing, documenting, and building physical infrastructure (e.g., racking-and-stacking servers).

●       Experience administering tools used by development teams, such as Jira, Slack, Confluence, and Git.

●       Excellent writing, communications, presentation, and design skills. 

●       Architectures for cloud and hybrid-cloud systems, enterprise security architecture, and best practices.

Education:   

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field from an accredited college.
• Relevant certifications are useful.
   

Experience:     2 or more years’ experience in DevOps, system administration, or related jobs.

Additional Information

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any additional federal, local or state protected class.