SYSTEMS

The AMTI contract at NASA Ames Research Center is seeking an experienced system administrator with software engineering background to become a member of Information Security group at NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) division of NASA Ames, where we support one of the world’s largest supercomputers. This position is in a fast-paced, ever-challenging scientific computing environment. The team is responsible for monitoring, managing and protecting resources, reputation and productivity. The tools are traditional routers, firewalls, audits, access-control, authentication, intrusion detection and prevention. Operating systems are Unix and Linux-based and range from cluster-based supercomputing, application servers (e.g. Mail, DNS), to desktop/laptops. Job Duties: Assignments include porting/writing near-real time and post-processing utilities related to syslog, intrusion detection, evasion/protection, alert & trap events reported by various subsystems (IDS, IPS, SYSLOG, SNMP, RADIUS/SecurID authentication, honeynet, and firewall router). Additional responsibilities for software support include custom or locally developed bastion hosts, firewalls, password management, system monitoring and system audit trail report data. Qualifications: This position requires significant project management skills, life-cycle software-engineering discipline including documentation and technical writing, applied programming in C and shell, Perl, tcl/tk, java, python or other interpreted languages. Infineon switched storage fabric, database and SQL experience desired. Understanding of principles of filesystem resource management including RAID, NFS, CXFS and DMF. Experience with PBS - Portable Batch System (or similar), grid computing (Globus) also desired. CISSP certification highly desired. Working knowledge and familiarity with the following basic network technology is required: ARP, IP/TCP/UDP/MCAST/BCAST, BGP, BOOTP, DHCP, TFTP, HTTP/S, RADIUS, OTP (RSA SecurID), SSH, SSL, NAT, firewall HLL (iptables, ipf, ipfw, Cisco IOS), 802.x WiFi, GbE, Fiber Channel, Infineon. Education/Experience: Bachelor (CS) degree or equivalent experience plus 8 years field experience with indicated technologies. US Citizenship is required. AMTI considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual preference, personal appearance, family responsibility, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or physical disability, matriculation, political affiliation, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. AMTI requires a Pre-Employment Background Investigation. To apply, please send resume to recruiter@amti.com or visit our Web site to apply online.