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# Senior Systems Administrator

- **Company:** fuse
- **Location:** Annapolis Junction, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Proxmox, JIRA, User Authentication, Bash Shell, Linux, Domain Name System (DNS), Perl (Programming Language), Internet Protocol, Python (Programming Language), Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, Linux System Administration, NetApp Applications, Ansible, Virtualization Technology, Scripting, Data Storage Management, Cloud Platform System, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Firewalls (Computer Science), Backend, Nutanix, Isilon, Cisco, Vmware
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9118957/senior-systems-administrator

## About the Role

* LINUX Administration

 * Solid experience with STE/STN, DISA STIG compliance work on Linux systems

 * Virtualization (VMWare, RH KVM, Proxmox …..)

 * Ip networking and Firewall exp.

 * Some experience with Containers/Cloud environments

Desired Skills:

 * Automation tools (Ansible, salt ..)

 * Scripting (bash, python, perl ..)

 * Storage Management solutions / arrays (NetApp, Isilon ….)

 * Hyper Converged Infrastructure exp (Harvester, Nutanix, Cisco HyperFlex…)

Requirements

Top Secret SCI w/ Polygraph Security Clearance Required

## Description

You will work on a 7-9-person mixed Contractor/Civilian SA team supporting 3rd party systems.

 * All supported systems are Linux hard boxes or VM's.

 * You will come in look at your monitoring, catch up on emails and your team Skype chat room for mission critical updates and hot issues then go to JIRA and start working off tickets.

 * The team supports a backend environment with Mission and Operations users and desktops so authentication, DNS, share drives and home directories.


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