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THE OPPORTUNITY
Iron Bow Technologies is seeking an experienced Systems Administrator – OpenShift Virtualization to support the day-to-day administration, monitoring, and operational support of an enterprise Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environment and its underlying infrastructure.
In this role, you will help maintain system availability, performance, security, and compliance across Linux and Windows environments while supporting virtual machine migrations from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization. You will work closely with engineering and infrastructure teams to troubleshoot issues, maintain system health, automate administrative tasks, and support scheduled migration activities.
HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT
- Administer and support enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows operating systems across VMware vSphere and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environments.
- Support the migration of virtual machines and workloads between virtualization platforms.
- Monitor system health, availability, performance, logging, and alerts using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Nagios, or SolarWinds.
- Manage user accounts, access controls, system configurations, and security hardening requirements.
- Perform patching, updates, and firmware lifecycle management across supported infrastructure.
- Apply, maintain, and document security compliance requirements, including STIGs, CIS benchmarks, SCAP, and DISA compliance standards and tools.
- Troubleshoot system performance, networking, storage, and infrastructure integration issues within virtualized environments.
- Use Ansible and other automation tools to streamline provisioning, configuration management, and ongoing system administration.
- Develop and maintain scripts using BASH, Python, or PowerShell to automate repetitive administrative tasks.
- Partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot complex issues and support infrastructure changes and improvements.
- Maintain accurate technical documentation related to system configurations, procedures, compliance, and operational activities.
- Support scheduled migration cutovers, including evening and weekend work as required.
SKILLS THAT DRIVE SUCCESS
- 5+ years of system administration experience within enterprise or government environments.
- Strong experience administering enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows operating systems.
- Experience supporting virtualized environments, including VMware vSphere and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
- Hands-on experience supporting virtual machine or workload migrations between virtualization technologies.
- Experience with user administration, access controls, system hardening, patching, and firmware lifecycle management.
- Ability to troubleshoot system performance, networking, and storage integration issues within complex virtualized environments.
- Experience with Ansible or similar configuration management and automation tools.
- Scripting experience using BASH, Python, or PowerShell.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
- Willingness and ability to support scheduled evening and weekend migration cutover activities.
- U.S. citizenship required.
- Ability to obtain and maintain the required VA Public Trust background investigation.
WHAT SETS YOU APART
- Hands-on experience specifically administering Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environments.
- Experience supporting migrations from VMware vSphere to OpenShift Virtualization.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Nagios, or SolarWinds.
- Experience applying and documenting security requirements using STIGs, CIS benchmarks, SCAP, or DISA compliance tools.
- Experience supporting infrastructure within Federal Government or other highly regulated environments.
- Strong knowledge of networking and enterprise storage integration within virtualized environments.
- Experience using Ansible to automate provisioning, configuration management, patching, or other system administration activities.
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
- Up to 10% travel may be required.
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT!
- Work hands-on with modern virtualization technologies while helping support a large-scale transition from traditional VMware infrastructure to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
- Solve complex infrastructure challenges across Linux, Windows, virtualization, automation, networking, and storage while working alongside experienced engineering teams.
- Join a culture built around technical expertise, collaboration, accountability, and delivering solutions that directly support our customers' missions.
- Iron Bow is rapidly growing, and with growth comes opportunity for all. There is palpable energy and momentum across the company that is easy to tap into and be inspired by.
- Be a part of organizational transformation. Now’s the time to join. Iron Bow is redesigning the customer and employee experience. This new approach elevates all and truly enables success.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFIT INFORMATION
The salary range for this position is $110,000-130,000/yr. This range reflects the anticipated base pay for the position and is not a guarantee of final compensation. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, education, location, contract requirements, and business needs.
Iron Bow Technologies reserves the right to fill this role at a different level, depending on qualifications and organizational priorities. This range represents only one component of Iron Bow’s total compensation package. An overview of our benefits is available on our careers page.
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OUR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER COMMITMENT
Iron Bow Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Iron Bow are based on relevant business considerations, such as operational needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic prohibited by law. Iron Bow will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
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