Job Description

Fuel

Linux Engineer (Expert), McLean

Fuel is looking for a Linux Engineer to join our growing team.

Duties may include:

• Proactively maintain and develop all Linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24x7x365 uptime service
• Engineer systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs
• Employ best practices on managing systems and services across all environments
• Fault finding, analysis and of logging information for reporting of performance exceptions
• Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning
• Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches on servers and workstations
• Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks
• Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
• Collaborate with team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes

Skills and Experience:

• Ability to build and optimize Linux servers
• Ability to perform root cause analysis on external and internal processes and data to identify opportunities for improvement and answer questions
• Excellent analytic skills associated with troubleshoot Linux systems
• Experience performing configuration management (e.g., package installation, starting of services, installing scripts or config files)
• Experience with Infrastructure as code

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, informatics, statistics, or computer science/software engineering
• Minimum of five years of experience using some of the below software and tools:
  • In depth knowledge of Linux: RedHat, CentOS, etc.
  • Experiences using Puppet, Ansible, and/or Chef
  • Experience with Terraform and auto-deploy software
  • Hands on experience with MySQL, Elastic search
  • Familiarity with VMware and AWS platforms
  • Expert in Shell and/or Python scripting
  • Solid knowledge of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP and SNMP
  • Additional Linux certifications (RHCT, RHCE and LPIC) will be considered an advantage
  • Strong problem solving and communication skills

About Fuel  

Fuel Consulting LLC helps clients create the path to their future.  Clients get expertise that needs no ramp-up time to deliver the best practices, customized tools, and methodologies to help them achieve their vision and leave a legacy.  If helping others and working with a team of exceptionally talented individuals excites you, then look no further than Fuel.   Fuel offers competitive benefits package and is a woman-owned small business serving intelligence community and commercial clients in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area.