Linux Engineer - AWS

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
This is a managed service provider (MSP) for Army IT systems and we support enterprise applications owners in migrating their systems into AWS and also provide sustainment services to support their applications. This position is for an administrator to support these applications from a migration modernization and sustainment role.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

• Collaborate with customers to understand their application environments evaluate any architectural changes they may need and develop an architecture that meets the application requirements and utilizes a cloud native approach as much as possible.
• Prepare and submit build and process documentation internally and with external providers to facilitate application deployment and upgrades.
• Deploy and sustain cloud infrastructure to support customer applications.
• Provide daily administration of the Linux based Virtual Machines.
• Harden the Linux based services per commercial best practices and the required government cybersecurity controls.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of any Linux issues.
• Coordinate and perform major OS version upgrades of virtual machines needing upgrades.
• Develop and maintain system infrastructure and process documentation (system diagrams network topology software configurations device configurations standard operating procedures).
• Develop deploy and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of Linux based services
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of customer application issues to include network storage operating

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
*** This position requires a Secret Security clearance or higher (US Citizenship is required) ***

• Required Certifications: AWS cert Security+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and computing environment certification (i.e. Amazon Certified Cloud Practitioner AWS Certified Solutions Architect etc. strongly preferred). Relevant computing environment certification (i.e. Red Hat Certified System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer etc.)
• Senior level Cloud Engineer experience – IaaS required some PaaS experience preferred.
• Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects in a fast paced environment
• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages (Ansible Terraform Python Powershell Bash Puppet Chef etc.)

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3-5 years of experience in cloud security engineering with a focus on RHEL and SAP environments.
• Expertise in building and maintaining RHEL images specifically for SAP applications.
• 3+ years of experience with developing cloud system requirements (AWS and Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• In-depth understanding of security practices including identity and access management encryption and network security (NIST and CIS Security frameworks).
• Working knowledge of DoD STIGs and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM) – preferred.