Job Description
Contract Length: 12 months (2 x 12 month extensions subject to role suitability)
Location: Canberra
Security Clearance Requirement: NV1
About the Position
The System Administrator is responsible for complex activities and tasks relating to design, development, integration, configuration, hardening, and documentation of Cyber Security Systems. The System Administrator will conduct these activities whilst working cohesively and flexibly with related stakeholders.
Essential Criteria
Design, install and maintain all server hardware and software systems
Conduct Linux systems administration including Operating System installation, configuration, integration, hardening, software and patch management and producing documentation
System patching including Red Hat Ansible, Red Hat Satellite automation, configuration management and deployment tools
Design, develop and maintain all system tools for all scripts and automation processes and monitor system capacity and usage
Identify and analyse system performance issues, and work in close coordination with related stakeholders to recommend and implement remediation actions
Identify any configuration discrepancies in the system, assess security risks, and implement solutions by adhering to security standards
Desirable Criteria
Knowledge and experience in Authentication and Authorisation technologies (experience with Red Hat IPA is preferred)
Understanding of various protocols (i.e. DNS, DHCP, NTP) and proxies (i.e. web proxies)
Experience in one of the following preferred technologies:
Software defined storage technologies (i.e. CEPH)
Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS, e.g. Red Hat OpenStack, AWS
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS, e.g. Red Hat Open Shift)
Containers (e.g. Docker) technologies
Splunk
Elastic Search (ES)