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Application Support Administrator

Employer
Apex Systems
Location
Rockville, MD
Closing date
Apr 15, 2021
Apex Systems has an immediate opportunity for an Application Support Administrator to join one of our largest Government Integrator clients. This candidate must have strong experience with Linux, Apache Tomcat (or Java or Python), Puppet, Configuring Servers within applications. Location: Rockville, MD (remote until COVID protocols change - then onsite) Duration: 6 month contract to hire Responsibilities: Configure and support the day-to-day application management tasks such as troubleshooting issues, deploying changes, installing and configuring new custom and third-party applications, remediating application security vulnerabilities, and optimizing performance settings. Monitor the health of applications and respond to alerts such as service down, failed backup, slow response time, or full file systems. Work closely with application owners and software engineers to identify requirements, plan, and implement projects such as installing new custom applications with web services, database components, data hosting, and load balancing. Automate day-to-day processes and create self-service capabilities to empower software developers and application owners to perform routine maintenance tasks such as renewing TLS certificates, changing service account passwords, and rebooting application servers. Research and recommend innovative approaches for application hosting to modernize our customers hosting environment and speed up time to deliver. Document day-to-day administrative processes and configuration information about our customers applications. After hours and weekend work may occasionally be required for pre-planned maintenance or for troubleshooting service-impacting outages. Required Qualifications: BA/BS or equivalent and eight years related experience or a MS and six years experience. Minimum of five years hands-on experience with Linux/Unix variants, especially RedHat/RHEL version 6.x/7.x and its derivatives, including best practices for deploying LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) applications and supporting variants of LAMP such as Tomcat, Java, Python, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. Expert knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x & 7.x to include troubleshooting complex issues, configuration best practices, security hardening, and automated provisioning. Experience in managing hardware load balanced applications. Experience in creating, applying and troubleshooting TLS certificates for web servers such as Tomcat, Apache, or nginx Experience with Puppet configuration management system and writing Puppet manifests or equivalent experience with Ansible or Chef Experience with content management and learning frameworks such as Drupal 7.x & 8.x or Moodle on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Experience installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting MySQL, MariaDB, and Postgres databases Experience designing and implementing technologies following NIST standards, such as SP 800-53, SP 800-190, and SP 500-291. Strong scripting experience with Python, Bash, Java, or Ruby Experience analyzing solutions components, understanding systems integration challenges, and identifying technology gaps in current components that must be resolved to reach future performance targets and functionality requirements Able to clearly present ideas to both technical and non-technical users and staff to further the adoption of DevOps. Ability to get and maintain a Public Trust security clearance level EEO Employer Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at 844-463-6178

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