Systems Administrator

Role Overview

• Maintains smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network engineers.
• Monitors and manages system resources, including CPU usage, disk usage, and response times to maintain operating efficiency.
• Performs systems security administration functions, including creating user profiles and accounts.
• Other duties may include setting up administrator accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space.
• Interacts with users and evaluates vendor products.
• Makes recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinates installation and provides backup recovery.
• Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.
• Ability to implement, maintain, and manage physical and virtual systems and upgrades.
• May assign responsibilities for less experienced staff.
• Manage and maintain hardware and back-end software to support end users.
• Support multiple centralized anti-virus and patch management systems.

Requirements

• Education : Bachelors degree and 8+ years of experience, or Masters Degree and 6+ years of experience, or 3 years with PhD.
• A degree must be in one of the following fields: Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Cybersecurity.
• In lieu of a degree in one of these fields of study, 4 years of additional relevant experience or specialized training may be considered.
• Experience: Experience building and deploying physical and virtual servers.
• Active Directory Domain and Forest Design, Implementation, and Management.
• Strong familiarity with Group Policy Objects (GPOs).
• User and group management.
• PowerShell Scripting and Windows domain services.
• DoD security hardening (STIG/SCAP).
• DNS configuration and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Network Security Principles (Firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Prevention).
• A strong understanding of VMWare with the ability to install, configure, manage, and troubleshoot.
• A strong understanding of Omnissa Horizon with the ability to configure, deploy and troubleshoot.
• Familiarity with Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), RAID configurations and file system management.
• Familiarity with backup technologies.
• Familiarity with ACAS, Splunk, and SolarWinds.
• Certifications: Active CompTIA Security+ certification (must upload a copy of the certification).
• Preferred Qualifications: RHEL Administration Experience CI/CD automation (Ansible/Teraform) Cloud services (Azure/AWS) Disaster recovery planning and execution Gitlab Trellix Desired Certifications: CASP+ CCNP Security CCSP FITSP-O

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Cyber Security
• DNS
• Firewalls
• Splunk
• VMware