
Senior RHEL Engineer
CACI International Inc
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $90,300 - $189,600 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AnsibleFirewallsLinux
About the role
- Lead RHEL and Satellite Engineering efforts supporting the Department of the Air Force (DAF) Enterprise Information Technology as a Service (EITaaS).
- Responsible for overall application design, implementation, and management of Red Hat Satellite 6.16 and Ansible Automation Platform 2.5.
- Deploy containerized infrastructure (Podman Execution Environments)
- Manage large-scale patching and configuration management and compliance across hybrid RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 systems
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define host group structures, automation job templates, and compliance baselines
- Troubleshoot host registration, subscription, and repo sync issues across dev, staging/test, and prod environments, providing support for Red Hat infrastructure components and ensure timely resolution of enterprise-level issues
- Maintain expert level understanding of enterprise, program, and tool level architecture.
- Provide input on IMS development
- Work with Stakeholders to define the roadmap plan for the RHEL capabilities
- Evangelize the developed solution and support breakdown of tasks into WBS
- Keep up to date with industry trends and developments
- Ensure all daily, sprint and release goals are achieved
- Identify risks, opportunities, compliance issues or other architectural concerns and provide recommendations
- Develop product teams technical skills through mentoring, coaching, and peer reviews
Requirements
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
- 15+ Years of relevant experience (Bachelor’s Degree in applicable field may be substituted for 5 years of experience).
- 10+ years of Red Hat Operating System Experience
- 5+ years of experience configuring and managing host-based firewalls and system services
- Experience managing LINUX disk and volume
- Experience generating and managing X.509 certificates and private keys for system services and integration with certificate authorities such as DoD NPE.
- 5+ years of experience deploying and managing Red Hat Satellite 6.16 with integrated Capsule Servers (Smart Proxies) across distributed network segments
- 5+ years of experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Application
- Ability to collaborate with Developers, Program Managers, Testers, and Production Support Engineers to implement innovative technical solutions via iterative approach reducing time to delivery
- Proven experience working directly to oversee and contribute to the architecture and development in an enterprise environment
- Ability to anticipate issues and formulate remedial actions
- Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
Benefits
- healthcare
- wellness
- financial
- retirement
- family support
- continuing education
- time off benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
RHELRed Hat Satellite 6.16Ansible Automation Platform 2.5containerized infrastructurepatchingconfiguration managementX.509 certificatesLinux disk managementhost-based firewallstroubleshooting
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringcoachingproblem-solvingcommunicationleadershiprisk assessmentopportunity identificationtask breakdowngoal achievement
Certifications
Bachelor’s DegreeSecret clearance