Systems Administrator

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintains operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination of infrastructure and cloud responsibilities. Develops and designs core operating system builds. Responsible for coding, virtualization, and automation of systems. Sets up administrator and service accounts, maintains an active directory of users and system documentation, tunes system performance, installs system-wide software, and allocates mass storage space. Assesses and resolves user access problems related to security controls to minimize business impact and risk exposure. Identifies and evaluates vendor products and establishes vendor monitoring and tracking processes. Performs capacity planning and monitors/tunes systems. Recommends appropriate platforms for purchase, coordinates installation, and provides backup recovery. Serves as a point of escalation for major incidents that are unresolved at the helpdesk level. Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources. May draft general IT communications to end-users including notifications of outages/downtimes.
• Group activities create an ongoing requirement for an experienced Testbed Engineer with Solaris and Linux system administrator experience. The Testbed Engineer will build, con?gure and maintain the software and hardware development environment of current and future test bed platforms.
• The Testbed Engineer will also be responsible for con?guring, supporting and securing LINUX, SOLARIS and network devices as outline by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
• The Testbed Engineer will con?gure and support single board computers (SBCs) from Themis, Motorola, and GE running Solaris, Linux or VxWorks.
• The Testbed Engineer will set-up, con?gure, patch and maintain security of Cisco switches and routers.

Skills:

• Current experience with Solaris 10 and 11, Red Hat Enterprise LINUX 5, 6, and 7 and Ubuntu
• Current experience with Cisco switches and routers
• Requires previous experience with maintaining an IT based AEHF I&T infrastructure.
• Current experience using DISA STIGs
• Experience with Themis, Motorola, and GE SBCs
• Experience working with electrical equipment that operates in the radio frequency band is desirable.

Education/Experience:

• This position requires a Top Secret from the start of the assignment due to the nature of the work that is being done and the facilities that require access.
• This position is onsite at least 4 days/week to work in the classi?ed space.
• This position does travel with some short notice (domestic travel only). Travel is about 20%.