Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, Toomey Technologies is a SBA Certified HUBZone & WOSB Small Business that provides customer focused professional services and solutions. Toomey focuses on forging strong relationships with our customers and internally fostering a culture of continuous improvement of our management and technical processes. Our aim is to leverage our knowledge and skills to work with our clients, offering professional and impartial advice. Toomey's goal is to become a trusted advisor to our customers while assisting to create innovative solutions and to find new ways to solve customer-specific problems.

Immediate opening for a Mid-Level Linux System Administrator to support a mission critical customer in Northern VA.  In this role, 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 customer with the development, integration, and maintenance of commercial and government software platforms within the larger framework of governmental enterprise software solutions. 

The qualified candidate will have a solid IT background and will be comfortable working on both large and small development teams of varying skill levels within a multi team environment.

• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for complex operating systems, workstations and servers.
• Coordinate, direct and perform complex software installations, upgrades, and patching to operating systems and layered software packages.
• Troubleshoot complex issues between hardware and software components
• Schedule installations and upgrades maintain them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures.
• Continually monitor and tune multiple systems to achieve optimum performance levels.
• Ensure workstation server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions of varying complexities.
• Plan and implement the modernization of servers.
• Implement and promote standard operating procedures and schedules.
• Conduct hardware and software audits of workstations and servers to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines.
• Infrastructure support for the Open Stack environment
• Ability to act independently, at times, supporting the system component implementation on large programs

Required Skills

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Active TS/SCI w/ CI Poly clearance required
• Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience with systems administration 
• 5+ years of experience with the following:
• Linux administration: RedHat, CentOS, Debian Ubunto, etc.
• Networking protocols: DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP, SNMP, SSSD, etc. 
• Scripting languages: Shell, Perl, Python, etc.
• Experience with Ansible
• Relational databases: MySQL, HadoopDB, etc.
• Storage Area Networks
• Familiarization with cloud technologies (IasS, SaaS, PaaS): Azure, AWS, OpenStack
• VMware
• Containerization: Docker, LXC
• Familiarization with DevOps processes and tooling
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills for stakeholder briefings and documentation

Desired Skills

• Linux / Unix certifications (RHCT, RHCSA, etc.)
• Certifications: A+, Network+, Security+, ITIL Foundations

• Toomey Technologies is 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