DevOps Engineer / Linux Admin

About Concept Plus
Concept Plus is a mission-focused technology solutions provider that transforms IT concepts into impactful solutions for federal agencies. Headquartered in Fairfax, VA, we bring the agility, responsiveness, and customer intimacy of a small business combined with the quality and infrastructure of a larger firm.

Recognized as an award-winning Oracle partner, we have delivered innovative solutions across Defense, Intelligence, Civilian, Health IT, and Tribal sectors. Our highly certified experts build systems that drive efficiency, accelerate modernization, and ensure mission outcomes with certainty.

We offer competitive pay, comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, paid life insurance, paid time off, 11 paid holidays, performance bonuses, tuition reimbursement, unlimited training, and the opportunity to thrive in a collaborative, flexible, and innovative environment.

For more information, visit www.conceptplus.com.

About the role

Concept Plus is seeking a DevOps Engineer / Linux Administrator to be responsible for documentation and knowledge transfer troubleshooting in Linux, logging and auditing in Linux, automation of Linux and other application related processes with Jenkins and Ansible Core.

What you'll do

• Provide scripting an automation for Linux administration for automation.
• Manually find and resolve Linux issues.
• Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance.
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Confer with others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.
• Responsible for building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure utilizing knowledge in continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD), Cloud technologies, Container Orchestration and Security.
• Build and test end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, ensuring that systems are safe against security threats.

Required Qualifications

• US Citizenship
• Active Secret Clearance
• Bachelors Degree
• 3+ years’ experience implementing and troubleshooting Linux in an enterprise environment.
• Experience with a CI/CD platform, such as FlexDeploy, Jenkins (groovy), Ansible core (yaml), GitLab CI/CD, or similar technologies.
• Experience working with REST APIs.
• Strong knowledge in Linux patching with DNF and YUM
• Experience with Ansible and Jenkins a must
• Experience working in a secure environment
• Strong knowledge of DNS/Networking and networking debugging with packet capture
• Strong scripting in most of these: python, bash, zsh, ksh, csh
• Strong configuration management knowledge and experience
• Experience in an OCI environment on virtual images
• Ability to provide accurate and realistic effort estimates, commit and deliver accordingly.
• Ability to work productively in a team environment and participate as a positive and cooperative team member.
• Strong experience with Linux
• Strong verbal, written, organizational and documentation skills.
• Current Comptia Security+ Certification, or alternatively any of the following certifications for 8570 Baseline also are acceptable: CISSP, CCNA, CAP, CASP+ CE, CCISO, CND, CSSLP, CYSA+, GSLC, SSCP

Concept Plus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As such, we will give your application full consideration without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.