Erias Ventures was founded to serve its customers with an entrepreneurship mindset. We value open communication, taking action, being committed, persevering through challenges and failures, and sharing innovative ideas.

We are seeking engineers who wish to grow their careers and want to become part of a strong, entrepreneurial-minded, and technical company focused on bringing innovative solutions to the difficult mission problems facing our customers.

Description
This Systems Administrator is responsible for overseeing the most critical aspects of the HPC and Datacenter Infrastructure.  They lead strategic planning, architecture design, and the deployment of enterprise-scale projects.  They solve the organization’s most complex technical issues, contribute to IT strategy, and drive innovations to ensure the robustness, security, and efficiency of the infrastructure.
 In this senior role, professionals are expected to manage essential infrastructure services, ensuring high availability and performance of data center services, physical and virtual server-class systems and storage.  They are expected to lead medium-to-large scale projects, design and implement system policies, conduct advance troubleshooting, and are pivotal in the direct recovery efforts during critical system failures.  They also mentor junior staff members.  Professionals in this role are expected to have the ability to work alone and as part of larger team to complete projects on time.

Requirements
A current Top-Secret/SCI with polygraph security clearance is required. Candidates cannot be sponsored or nominated for a government security clearance under this position.

Years of Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in a system administration or similar role

Degree Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Degree can be substituted with additional 3 years of relevant experience.

Certification Requirements:

• CompTIA Security+ CE (required)
• VMware  Certified Professional, Red Hat Certified System Administrator or Red Hat Certified Engineer a plus.

Required skills:

• Mastery of the VMware  ecosystem, and have extensive experience in Hyper-converged Infrastructure environments across multiple security enclaves and data centers.  Knowledge of Performance Optimized Datacenter (PODs), CentOS and RHEL 7/8/9 system administration, and VDI (specifically VMware  Horizon, Citrix VDI). They need in-depth experience with Active Directory, LDAP and Centrify for identity management, Infoblox for core network services, and proficiency in using Nagios and Splunk for comprehensive system monitoring and analytics.  Advanced skills in automation shell scripting, automation, streamlining, and system configuration using tools like Salt and Ansible.
• Experience with Linux provisioning server tools such as Kickstart and Cobbler to facilitate the automation of network-based system installations of multiple computer operating systems.
• Strategize and supervise extensive security protocols, utilizing Tenable Nessus for comprehensive vulnerability assessments and proactive security enhancements on Linux and Windows platforms.
• Govern account and access management landscapes using Centrify an Active Directory, ensuring stringent security compliance and efficient user privilege orchestration.
• Innovate security mitigation methodologies, fortifying enterprise infrastructure against evolving cyber threats.
• Enterprise-level management of Hyper-converged Infrastructure, vendor hardware and software across multiple data centers.
• Experience using Atlassian’s team collaboration software suite like Jira and Confluence to help organize teams, discuss and complete shared work.
• Lead cross-functional collaborations with network, storage, and SecOps teams, orchestrating major initiatives, critical outage management, and strategic improvements.
   

Benefits

• Erias Ventures provides employees with a complete benefits package that includes:
• Above Market Hourly Pay that includes Paid Time Off, Birthday Off, Flexible Work Schedules
• 11% Roth or Traditional 401k with Immediate Vesting and Deposit
• Company subsidized Medical Coverage
• 100% Company Paid Vision and Dental Coverage
• 100% Company Paid Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, and Group Life Insurance
• Monthly Internet and Telephone Reimbursement
• Company Paid Professional Development and Training
• Technology and Office Allowance for Equipment and Productivity Supplies
• Amazon Prime Membership
• Quarterly Bonuses for Assisting with Business Development and Company Growth
• Gift Cards and Gifts for Birthday and Work Anniversary
• Morale Building and Company Events to Celebrate our Successes and Build our Community
• Quarterly Employee Referral Bonuses
• At Erias Ventures, we are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

 
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