Senior RHEL Engineers

Senior RHEL Engineer

Fort Gordon, GA • On-site • 3 base-period positions

Clearance: TS/SCI

Ascension Federal Services, Inc. (AFS) is seeking candidates to support a Scalable GEOINT program. Engineer secure Red Hat Enterprise Linux services and automation supporting the Scalable GEOINT architecture.

Responsibilities

Install, configure, troubleshoot, and sustain RHEL servers and supporting services.

Automate operating-system configuration, patching, and application deployment using approved tools.

Implement STIGs, vulnerability remediation, auditing, and certificate-based authentication.

Support secure data-transfer workflows, encryption, antivirus checks, and related diagnostic controls.

Coordinate OpenShift/virtual infrastructure, storage, backups, monitoring, and recovery requirements.

Required qualifications

7-10+ years in systems administration/engineering; bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience. Significant systems-analysis experience and expert-level virtualization knowledge, specifically Red Hat OpenShift.

Desired: Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration certification.

Security and assignment requirements

Final Top Secret clearance required at start of work. This is a TS/SCI mission; SCI access is subject to customer requirements. Meet applicable cyber workforce certification and computing-environment training requirements before performance/privileged access.

On-site assignment; shift, weekend, on-call, and travel support may be required. Employment is contingent on contract award and position authorization.