About Zen

Own your opportunity to work with a client-focused, growing, agile small business. Make an impact by advancing our government organizations charged with keeping our country safe, prosperous, and secure. Zen Strategics LLC is a cleared, niche consulting firm, offering innovative Cybersecurity, Cloud/DevSecOps, Information Data Management, and Modernization solutions. We are a leading organization committed to delivering innovative solutions and ensuring the highest standards of security for our customers' infrastructure assets. We are dedicated to staying ahead of evolving cyber threats and protecting our clients' data, leveraging cutting-edge technologies (to include AI/ML) and proactive security measures.  

Job Summary

This position supports security activities associated with organizing and directing the configuration, operation, and security of Linux-based systems. The successful candidate will be able to manage the daily activities of implementation, installation, configuration, operation, and security of Linux systems and perform capacity analysis and planning for the same in the USCIS enterprise environment.  

Responsibilities

• Manage the implementation and maintenance of the Linux environments to support ongoing, proactive protection of the USCIS enterprise environment, and to facilitate an efficient response to security incidents. Develop standards, templates, and automated mechanisms to support threat modeling and analysis of individual USCIS information systems and information. 
• Write system lifecycle documentation for security products or security-relevant system components. This includes product-specific configurations for Linux systems that align with USCIS policy and procedure, DHS policy and procedure, DHS continuous monitoring requirements and annual metrics, DoD STIGs, and NIST Special Publication 800 Guidance. 
• Generate Enterprise Architecture (EA) documentation as necessary. 
• Schedule and attend meetings, file USCIS forms, tickets, and change requests necessary to facilitate successful deployment of security products/projects for Linux Environment. 
• Review existing configuration settings to identify potential security vulnerabilities and propose settings or architectural changes to address these vulnerabilities. 
• Work collaboratively with other teams to improve the use of automated configuration management capabilities to initiate network and environment changes and enforce security-relevant configuration settings. 
• Perform security hardening, reviewing new and re-evaluating existing configuration settings and rules to verify USCIS’s security posture and eliminate unnecessary risk in Linux environments. 
• Use Agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and MS Teams to provide transparency and allow information to be visible in real time and to create a unified backlog, ensuring visibility into all areas of work and identifying inter-dependencies between teams.

Required Qualifications 

 Clearance: 

• U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain Public Trust and complete DHS Security Clearance
• Ability to obtain DHS EOD suitability
• Current DHS EOD is highly preferred 

Years of Experience:

• 10 years’ experience administering large complex Linux applications in a medium to large enterprise.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Singularity, Podman, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Fargate)
• Advanced knowledge of clustering services, load balancing, and replication services
• Expertise with installing, configuring, operating, and patching Linux servers/managing Linux applications (troubleshooting and recovery included)
• Advanced knowledge of one or more of the following configuration management tools: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and SaltStack.
• Experience with shell scripting, including ssh, scp, rsync, and sudo
• Experience with authentication subsystems a.k.a PAM, selinux, fips mode and Blancco file eraser
• Hands-on experience with automation efforts using more than one language, including Python, and experience with at least one of the frameworks, such as Flask, Django, and FastAPI
• Two or more years’ experience deploying applications to AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus

Education: 

Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Computer Information Systems/Engineering Degree or other comparable degree or experience, which must be approved in advance by the Government Program Manager.

Certifications:

Required: 

Must have an active Red Hat Enterprise Linux Certified Engineer certification or other comparable certification or experience, which must be approved in advance by the Government Program Manager.

Zen Serenity: 

• 401K with company match 
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Professional growth opportunities include Tuition Reimbursement.
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid time off (PTO) and holidays

Salary at Zen Strategics is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements.   

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled