As a Junior Systems Admin with Reinventing Geospatial, Inc. (RGi), you will have the opportunity to support Defense and Intelligence Community projects by using emerging technologies and industry best practices. This position will support a dynamic, challenging and engaged Special Operations customer with the development, integration, and maintenance of commercial and government software platforms within the larger framework of governmental enterprise software solutions.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated individual with a solid IT background that wants to help us drive our customer and company missions forward. A successful candidate must be comfortable working on both large and small development teams of varying skill levels within a multi team environment. The candidate must be self-starting, able to work well within a team environment and motivated to deliver innovative capabilities that directly impact national security.
Clearance:
Active Top Secret clearance with an ability to obtain SCI access and willingness to obtain CI Polygraph
US Citizenship required
As a Junior Systems Admin you will...
- Monitoring and acting on any hardware and software outages on the platform
- Engaging with tenants and users of the OpenStack Cloud Platform via chat services to assist them with trouble shooting and requests as needed
- Implementing cyber security remediations in close cooperation with the cyber security team
- Upgrading and deploying applications on the platform
- Integrating new hardware into multiple different compute clusters
- Reviewing and updating existing procedures and documentation
Junior Systems Admin Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
- Willing to work 100% onsite in a secure environment
- Basic linux skills (3-5 years admin): Install/update/administer linux (rhel/rocky/debian/ubuntu).
- Be able to manage bare-metal hardware installs (pxe/manual/automated install of OS). Working skillset including: users, applications, OS packages, kernel/OS configuration, filesystems (xfs, ext4, nfs, fuse), networks, firewall, security/hardening (STIG, OSCAP).
- Hardware skills (3-5 years, various hardware vendors: Dell/SM/HPE): Hands on experience racking systems, connecting network and direct attach storage devices.
- Familiar with storage hardware: NAS, SAN, direct attach, sata/sas/nvme drive.
- Working knowledge of PCIe cards: Raid/network/GPU/other.
- Basic knowledge of HPC technologies (experience work of at least 1-3 years) such as parallel/distributed file systems (e.g. Lustre, Ceph, GPFS, GlusterFS, BeeGFS) high speed interconnect fabrics (e.g. Infiniband, Omni-path, RoCE)
- HPC batch schedulers (e.g. PBSpro, OpenPBS, SLURM, Torque, HTCondor, SGE)
- Basic understanding of how HPC environments function
- Able to work with users and help them understand how HPC systems function
Additional Qualifications we would like to see.
- Nice to have working knowledge of cluster managers (Bright Cluster Manager now named Base Command Manager; xCAT, Warewulf, Rocks, Scyld)
- The willingness to gain a better understanding of HPC methods and applications, someone who wants to be mentored.
Who we are:
Reinventing Geospatial, Inc. (RGi) is a fast-paced small business that has the environment and culture of a start-up, with the stability and benefits of a well-established firm. We solve complex problems within geospatial software development and national defense to make an Immediate Impact for our nation’s soldiers and analysts.
We pride ourselves on giving employees an exceptional life experience, where creativity thrives, and challenges are simply part of the fun. We provide truly excellent benefits, including:
· 100% paid employee healthcare & dental insurance
· Paid parental leave
· 401k with matching
· Escalating vacation time
· Referral bonuses
· Tuition reimbursement
· Professional development training
· Free beverages and snacks
· Weekly catered lunches and breakfast on Fridays
Grow to be our next leader:
At RGi, fostering a strong and organic corporate culture is paramount and serves as a compass on the decisions we make and how we operate the company. We believe our culture of camaraderie, innovation, and collaboration reflects the caliber of our employees and their dedication to the mission of providing quality software to our customers. As such, we want our employees to feel empowered to seek growth and leadership opportunities within the company and position us to maintain our culture as we grow. RGi provides opportunities, resources, training, and mentorship to all our employees to let them take control of their careers and become a leader or a crucial member of our company. If this is what you are looking for in a company, then you are what we are looking for in an employee.
Reinventing Geospatial, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions.
