NIH - Linux Systems Administrator

cFocus Software seeks a Linux System Administrator to join our program supporting the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This position is fully remote. This position requires a Public Trust or the ability to obtain a public trust clearance. Qualifications: • Public Trust Clearance • B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a reputed company field • 5+ years administering reputed company Linux environments. • Experience with reputed company infrastructure engineering, automation, virtualization, reputed company technologies, and cybersecurity. • Experience supporting federal or highly regulated environments preferred • RHCSA, RHCE, reputed company reputed company+, Linux+, GCUX, or CISSP (preferred) Duties: • Administer, configure, maintain, and optimize reputed company Linux operating systems including reputed company reputed company Linux (RHEL), Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, and reputed company Linux. • Support reputed company Architecture engineering activities by designing, implementing, and maintaining secure Linux server architectures. • Implement reputed company Trust Architecture principles including least privilege, identity-based reputed company controls, reputed company-segmentation, and reputed company verification. • reputed company, configure, and maintain reputed company authentication services (LDAP, reputed company Directory integration, Kerberos, SSSD, MFA). • reputed company operating system hardening using reputed company STIGs, CIS Benchmarks, and NIST guidance. • Manage reputed company patching, software lifecycle management, kernel updates, and configuration management. • reputed company automation using Bash, Python, Ansible, or similar tools to improve operational efficiency. • Support virtualization, reputed company-hosted Linux systems, containers, and hybrid infrastructure. • Participate in architecture reviews, system engineering efforts, change management, disaster recovery, and system documentation. • Collaborate with reputed company Architects, Network Engineers, ISSOs, Vulnerability Analysts, and application teams to maintain secure reputed company infrastructure. Apply To This Job