
Posted 1 month ago
Systems Administrator (RHEL)
Herndon, VAHybrid
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RHEL system administrator supporting a SOC Engineering team by provisioning, patching, hardening, and backing up RHEL servers in production, ensuring STIG compliance and integration with SIEM and security tooling.
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UltraViolet Cyber is a leading platform-enabled unified security operations company providing a comprehensive suite of security operations solutions. Founded and operated by security practitioners with decades of experience, the UltraViolet Cyber security-as-code platform combines technology innovation and human expertise to make advanced real-time cybersecurity accessible for all organizations by eliminating risks of separate red and blue teams.
By creating continuously optimized identification, detection, and resilience from today’s dynamic threat landscape, UltraViolet Cyber provides both managed and custom-tailored unified security operations solutions to the Fortune 500, Federal Government, and Commercial clients. UltraViolet Cyber is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with global offices across the U.S. and in India.
We are seeking a RHEL system administrator / infrastructure engineer to support a SOC Engineering team responsible for expanding security visibility across cloud and on-premises environments. This engineer will be responsible for RHEL system provisioning, patching, STIG compliance, backups, and configuring existing hardware and software to support new software and capabilities. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with strong SIEM platform experience and a solid understanding of enterprise RHEL deployments and an understanding of SOC operations and support.
The position requires an Active Secret Clearance and 1-2 days per week onsite in Herndon, VA.
What You'll Do:
• 4+ years of hands-on experience administering and engineering RHEL servers in production environments
• Experience with distributed enterprise services, DNS, firewalls, switches, NAS, backup solutions, load balancers, and server hardware.
• Experience with patching, OS hardening, application hardening, and STIG compliance.
• Experience with automating server management tasks with ansible, PowerShell, Bash, or Python scripts.
• Experience supporting a SOC, SIEM, or cyber defense environment
• Working knowledge of and Windows administration
• Ability to collaborate with analysts and engineers to align telemetry inges on with detection, monitoring, and compliance requirements
What You've Have:
US Citizenship is Required
Active Secret Clearance is Required
• Hands-on experience administering Cisco network devices in production environments
• Experience with GIT, and DevOps principles
• Experience using wri ng Ansible scripts to manage RHEL hosts
• Familiarity with Splunk Enterprise Security, CIM, data models, and security content dependencies
• Experience with cloud infrastructure AWS, Azure, Microso 365, iden ty pla orms, EDR, firewalls, and network security tools
• Familiarity with regex, JSON parsing, syslog, and API-based log collection
Preferred Skills:
• Hands-on experience administering Cisco network devices in production environments
• Experience with GIT, and DevOps principles
• Experience using & writing Ansible scripts to manage RHEL hosts
• Familiarity with Splunk Enterprise Security, CIM, data models, and security content dependencies
• Experience with cloud infrastructure AWS, Azure, Microso 365, iden ty pla orms, EDR, firewalls, and network security tools
• Familiarity with regex, JSON parsing, syslog, and API-based log collec on
What We Offer:
Skills
AnsibleAPI-based Log CollectionApplication HardeningAWSAzureBackup SolutionsBashCIMCisco Network DevicesDevOps PrinciplesDNSEDRFirewallsGitJSON ParsingLoad BalancersMicrosoft 365NASOS HardeningPowerShellPythonRegExRHELSplunk Enterprise SecuritySTIG ComplianceSyslog
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