Black Fox is a certified ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 22301:2019 firm with an array of experience in managing and delivering professional services to public, private, education institutions, and nonprofit organizations across globe. Black Fox has exemplified excellence by receiving the 2021 University of Connecticut’s School of Business Veteran Impact Award, the 2022 Department of Labor’s HIREVet Medallion Gold Award, and the 2023 Small Business Administration Veteran Owned Small Business of the Year Award.

Since its inception, Black Fox has been a recognized leader in the development and implementation of information management and solutions. We depend on a diverse team of talented staff to design, develop, and deploy information solutions for our clients.

Scope of Work

• Installing, configuring, and maintaining Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers across development, testing, and production environments
• Performing system upgrades, patch management, and security hardening to ensure compliance with industry standards
• Monitoring system performance and troubleshooting issues to minimize downtime and optimize efficiency
• Implementing automation scripts using Ansible, Bash, or Python to streamline system administration tasks
• Configuring and maintaining Red Hat Satellite, Identity Management (IdM), and other Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) ecosystem tools
• Collaborating with security teams to ensure systems are protected against vulnerabilities and comply with security policies
• Maintaining and optimizing storage, backup, and disaster recovery solutions
• Supporting application teams by providing guidance on best practices for Linux-based deployments
• Maintaining documentation for system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides
• Participating in on-call support and incident resolution activities as required
• Setup Network File Server (NFS) and mount points
• Configuring Chron jobs for both systems and applications
  

Education

• Bachelor’s degree, or postgraduate degree, in engineering, computer science, or related field
• Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator. Certification must be issued by Red Hat and include the resource’s valid certification number
  
  

Experience

• Working in a complex networked system environment with strong networking
• Administering Unix (AIX) IBM pSeries systems
• Administering systems including, but not limited to, the applications below:
• Oracle WebLogic Servers
• Oracle Database Servers
• Progress 4GL/Database Servers/OpenEdge
• Apache Web Servers
• vSphere hosted RHEL Servers
• Rubrik backup systems
• Oracle Database backups
• PeopleSoft
• Mobius
• Elastic Search
• Oracle OBI
• CVS (Concurrent Version System)
• Red Hat performance tuning
• Load balancing, partitioning, back-up/recovery, and disaster recovery
• Working in an environment that requires 24/7 system availability
• Application development
• Red Hat Support
• Electronic Imaging Support
• Work in a team environment
• Communicate effectively with internal and external personnel
• Demonstrate leadership skills
• Interface with users and helpdesk for day-to-day support
• Provide Backup/recovery and networking methodologies
• Troubleshoot at the Operating System (OS), database, and application levels
  
  

Job Specific Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Supervising employees by communicating regularly, motivating, training, evaluating, planning and directing their work
• Assisting with troubleshooting computer systems and related software
• Learning about and providing technical assistance and routine maintenance of specialized software applications.
• Providing support for other IT related hardware devices such as networked printers, smartphones, etc.
• Performing advanced troubleshooting to determine cause of problems.
• Installing, configuring, and providing support for Service Desk tickets, as assigned.
• Providing or coordinating Audio Visual (AV) and Video Conferencing (VC) support as needed. Assists with reserving, setting up, and troubleshooting of AV and VC equipment.
  
  

General Knowledge Skills And Abilities

• Initiative: Must be able to comprehend assignments, organize workload, and meet deadlines with little direction. Must be able to monitor and analyze situations to determine the next step
• Communication: Can clearly convey information, in both written and verbal formats, to individuals or groups in a wide variety of settings (i.e., project team meetings, management presentations, etc.). Must have the ability to effectively listen and process information provided by others
• Customer Service: Works well with clients and customers (i.e., business office, public, or other agencies). Able to assess the needs of the customer, provide information or assistance to satisfy expectations or resolve a problem
• Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions utilizing critical thinking skills and analysis
• Flexibility: is open to change, new processes (or process improvement), and new information. Can adapt in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles. Ability to receive and give constructive criticism and maintain effective work relationships with others
• Interpersonal: Shows friendliness, courtesy, understanding, and politeness to others
• Leadership: Motivates, encourages, and challenges others. Can adapt leadership styles in a variety of situations
• Problem Solving: Able to identify, evaluate, and use sound judgement to generate and evaluate alternative actions, and make recommendations as accordingly
• Team Building: Encourages, inspires, and guides others toward accomplishing the common goal as an equal member of the team
• Quality Assurance: Knowledge of the ideologies, techniques and tools for quality assurance and control. The ability to put the ideologies, techniques, and tools into practice
  
  

Salary

• $140,000.00
  
  

Location

• Annapolis, MD
  
  

Benefits:

• Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision and Hearing)
• Retirement Benefits (401k)
• Paid Time Off (For Qualifying Members)
  
  

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