UNIX Systems Administrator, Sr. jobs in Castle Rock, CO

CACI's SAFFIRE team is at the forefront of developing and operating state-of-the-art of Geospatial Intelligence analysis software. The SAFFIRE team builds and maintains an exceptionally powerful platform enabling our users to address challenging real-world problems by converting disparate data into actionable information. The team is deeply passionate about its mission and takes tremendous pride in our work.  We work directly with operational users to design, develop, and maintain capabilities that empower analysts to create actionable intelligence from the massive volumes of Geospatial Intelligence data to give our intel and combat organizations the decision advantage over our near-peer adversaries. 

What You’ll Get to Do:    

As a Senior Cloud Engineer/System Admin on the SAFFIRE System Team, you will be working closely with Release Trains, Agile Teams, Security, and the rest of the Systems Team by providing and maintaining the environments needed to develop and fielding advanced intelligence capabilities. This includes configuration management of hardware and software environment, supporting the Desktop development environment, providing cloud solutions, implementing infrastructure as code, and asset management and procurement. You will be a key member of the team, where the rubber meets the road, doing work that matters for some of the U.S. Government’s most critical missions, and utilizing the latest technologies in Cloud Computing, AI/ML, and DevSecOps. 

More About the Role:    

• Build and maintain infrastructure as code for cloud-based services 

• Procure, build and maintain configuration management for on-prem hardware 

• Provide and maintain standard Linux and Windows operating systems environments 

• Responsible for asset management reporting and tracking 

• Procure, install, and manage software licenses 

• Assist in establishment, maintenance and troubleshooting of cloud-based and on-prem networking 

• Automate development and operation processes to ensure reliability and repeatability 

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:     

• Current Top Secret Security Clearance, preferably a Top Secret SCI with a current polygraph 

• Information Assurance/DoD 8570 certification IAT Level II or higher (like Security ) or willing to obtain within 6 months 

• Experience with AWS Infrastructure 

• Experience with infrastructure as code concepts 

• Experience managing unclassified and classified development environments including workstations, servers, and GPU assets 

• Knowledge on how to build, configure, and administrate all aspects of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 & 8 

• Must be able to apply security hardness according to DISA STIG requirements 

• Understanding of network configuration in cloud and on-prem environments 

• Experience with building and deploying Elastic Stack clusters for data and logs 

• Strong grasp of Linux 

These Qualifications Would Be Nice to Have:   

• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar IaC technology 

• Experience procuring equipment for government contracts and asset management 

• AWS Certification - SysOps or DevOps or Architect 

• Experience managing hybrid on-prem / cloud operating environments 

• Experience with CICD pipelines and GitOps (like ArgoCD) 

• Experience with container management/orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, RKE2) and/or Platform as a Service (e.g., Openshift) 

• Experience with Helm charts, Kustomize, and/or updating k8s manifests