Senior Operations Platform Engineer – Mission Systems

** Federal Project - Applicant must be a United States Citizen with Active Secret **

Description

This role is responsible for the day-to-day stability, availability, and sustainment of mission-critical systems operating within a secure SCIF environment. The position focuses on hands-on Operations & Maintenance (O&M), ensuring infrastructure reliability, rapid issue resolution, and compliance with operational baselines.

Responsibilities

• Provide Echelon 1 Operations & Maintenance support for secure mission platforms

• Administer and maintain Linux systems, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Linux

• Support and operate VMware virtualization environments, including vCenter and ESXi hosts

• Perform hardware-level troubleshooting across servers, networking components, and storage systems

• Manage system baselines, execute patching cycles, and support defect identification and tracking

• Administer directory services, including LDAP, within secure enterprise environments

• Monitor system health and availability using enterprise monitoring tools

• Support storage and network services such as SAN/NAS, NFS, and DNS

• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to ensure system stability and compliance within the SCIF

Requirements

• Strong experience in Linux system administration, specifically RHEL and/or Oracle Linux

• Hands-on experience supporting VMware infrastructure, including vCenter and ESXi

• Experience administering LDAP or comparable directory services

• Proven ability to perform hardware troubleshooting across compute, network, and storage platforms

• Experience with baseline configuration management, patching, and defect tracking in operational environments

Preferred / Additional Experience

• Scripting experience using Bash

• Familiarity with Dell and Cisco hardware platforms

• Experience supporting SAN/NAS storage, NFS, and DNS services

• Exposure to system monitoring tools such as Nagios

• Working knowledge of Windows-based systems

Security & Clearance

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly, required on day one