Overview Medical Science & Computing (MSC) is an exciting growth oriented company, dedicated to providing mission critical scientific and technical services to the Federal Government. We have a distinguished history of supporting the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other government agencies. MSC offers a dynamic and upbeat work environment, excellent benefits and career growth opportunities.We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, Medical and Flexible Spending Accounts, Pre-Tax Transit Assistance and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!Medical Science & Computing is searching for a Linux Administrator - Cloud Centric to support the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full-time, and it is on-site in Bethesda, MD Duties & Responsibilities The candidate will assist with the operation and continuing development of NIH Cloud services environment based in both Google GCP and Amazon AWS. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with an environment that is constantly changing and evolving, and can work closely with both cutting-edge developers and operations managers responsible for stable production services.* Provide support to developers and production services operating in NCBI's Amazon AWS and Google GCP environments* Participate in discussions of ongoing technical and management efforts, including new architecture design and refinements to existing operations* Participate in evaluation and implementation of new and emerging technologies* Ongoing operation and maintenance of existing services* Assist with development of cloud-based services in parallel on both Amazon AWS and Google GCP * Assist with development of tools to help manage the cloud environments and enforce established policies. Requirements Required:* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience* Strong experience with Linux systems administration, particularly CentOS 7 or RedHat 7. * Experience managing Cloud resources within Amazon AWS or Google's Cloud Platform, particularly: o User management o User roles and permissions o Compute instances o VPCs and subnets o routing o firewall rules/security groups * Experience writing scripts to automate management tasks * Self-starter, able to work independently* Ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing environment* Familiarity with networking concepts (subnetting, basic routing, udp, tcp, icmp) * Ability to manage firewall rules * Strong troubleshooting skills* Some programming experience, applicable to developing cloud management tools (one or more of Bourne/bash shell, ruby, python, perl) Desired:* Familiarity with managing continuous integration tools such as TeamCity or Jenkins * Experience with MS Windows systems administration * Experience with Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services* Experience managing resources with puppet* Experience writing code to automate management of cloud resources via their CLI or API* Experience with cloud automation tools (packer, terraform) * Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as nagios or SolarWinds* Familiarity with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, bitbucket) * Experience with git* Experience with container technologies (docker, Kubernetes) * Experience programming in Bourne/bash shell, ruby, python, perlMedical Science & Computing is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.