Sr. Linux Engineer

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Cleared TS Sr. Linux Systems Engineer to support a highly cleared program with a major government customer fully onsite in Washington DC . This will be a perfect role for a subject matter expert that can work in an individual capacity but also collaborate with teams to support a federal window-centric infrastructure. Responsibilities of Sr. Linux Systems Engineer: • Lead Integration of RHEL 7/8 & Ubuntu systems into a Windows Active Directory environment, managing authentication and authorization processes with PKI certificates & Single Sign On • Configure & baseline new Linux Systems for customer use ensuring enterprise level security and compliance • Integrate Linux systems with enterprise tools such as ACAS, Splunk, SolarWinds, & backup solutions • Maintain patches across a diverse Linux environment using automated processes • Ensure compliance with evolving enterprise policies and develop an operating system lifecycle plan incorporating STIGs and other security standards • Oversee Solutions via a centralized alerting system, certifying log management and centralized forwarding. Qualifications of Sr. Linux Systems Engineer: • 8 years of experience as a Linux Systems Engineer • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering or relevant field • Experience using ACAS, Solarwinds, Splunk, & integrating with Microsoft Active Directory • Experience with Ansible, Gitlab, and Terraform • Must be eligible to work in the United States and obtain and maintain an Active U.S. Government Secret Clearance Compensation: • Salary: $180k-$210k • Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO, Sick Leave as required by law, and Holidays Keywords: Linux, Systems Engineering, Scripting, Ansible, Virtualization, Red Hat Linux, Troubleshooting, Hardware, System Administration, Networking, Cloud Services, Security, Monitoring, Configuration Management, Containerization , air gapped networks, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), openSUSE, Arch Linux, Manjaro, Kali Linux, Pop_OS, Zorin OS, Elementary OS, Slackware, Gentoo, Git, SVN, Mercurial, Jenkins, Travis CI, CircleCI, Spinnaker, Argo CD, GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Docker, Podman, LXC, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, HashiCorp Vault, Aqua Security, Snyk, JFrog Artifactory, Nexus Repository, Harbor, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Maven, Gradle, AntWindows, Microsoft, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell, Hyper-V, Remote Desktop, Windows Update, BitLocker, Windows Defender, Task Manager, Control Panel, File Explorer, Registry Editor, Event Viewer, System Restore, Windows Firewall, Command Prompt, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Cortana, OneDrive, Windows Store, Windows Insider Program, Windows Deployment Services (WDS), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Windows Admin Center, Windows Sandbox LI-Onsite LI-AJ1