Senior System Administrator

Job Description

DescriptionSAIC is currently seeking a Senior System Administrator in Huntsville, AL to support the mission areas of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) ? Aviation and Missile Center (AvMC) Integrated Systems Solutions (ISS) Branch. The scope of work for the position includes system administration support for the projects and activities of ISS Branch managed resources such as the Advanced Prototyping Engineering and Experimentation (APEX) Lab, the Integrated Collaborative Environment (ICE), and the Force Protection Lab (FPL). The candidate will work in a collaborative team environment consisting of defense industry contractors and U.S. Government personnel. Working as part of a team, the candidate?s primary responsibilities will be:

• Performing operational maintenance and system administration, provisioning, and upgrades for operating systems, applications, workstations, firewalls, networks, and servers ensuring compliance with established standards and policies.
• Coordinating and performing complex software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages.
• Scheduling installations and upgrades and maintain them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures.
• Continually monitoring and tuning multiple systems to achieve optimum performance levels.
• Ensuring workstation/server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions of varying complexities.
• Ensuring data/media recoverability by developing and implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations.
• Planning and conduct the modernization of servers.
• Analyzing customer requirements and translating them into architecture designs and technical solutions leveraging physical hardware, virtualization, and private cloud technologies.

COVID Policy: Prospective and/or new employees are required to adhere with SAICs vaccination policy. All SAIC employees must be fully vaccinated and they must submit proof of vaccination on their first day of employment. Prospective or new employees may seek an exemption to the vaccination requirement at Contact Us and must have an approved exemption prior to the start of their employment. Where work is performed strictly at a customer site, customer site vaccination requirements preempt SAICs vaccination policy.QualificationsRequired Education:Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and zero (0) years related experience.Required Clearance:Candidate must have an active interim SECRET or higher security clearance and must be able to obtain and maintain an active SECRET or higher security clearance.Required Certification:Must meet baseline information assurance (IA) certification requirements for an IAT Level I position per DoD 8570.01-M (CompTIA A+, Computing Environment).PreferredQualifications:

• Installation, configuration, and advanced troubleshooting experience with Microsoft Windows operating systems (Windows 10, Windows Server 2019)
• Installation, configuration, and advanced troubleshooting experience with Linux operating systems (Red Hat, CentOS)
• Experience with design, implementation, and operations of server and/or virtualization technologies
• CompTIA Security+
• VMware Certified Professional (VCP), VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP)
• Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)/Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
• Installation, configuration, and advanced troubleshooting experience with Linux operating systems (Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle)
• Experience with the VMware vSphere product suite
• Familiar with VDI design, implementation, and administration, linked-clones, updating images, composer operations, templates, folder redirection or roaming profiles, etc.
• Understanding of networking concepts such as vLAN tagging, subnetting, routing, link aggregates, LACP, trunking, etc.
• Familiar with creating, monitoring, and troubleshooting backup jobs
• Hands-on server management in a mixed Windows/Linux environment
• Hands-on experience implementing DoD PKI (ActiveClient, certificate authorities, etc.)
• Hands-on network administration experience with Cisco network components, network, and endpoint security solutions
• Knowledge of Federal and Department of Defense (DoD) Guidance, STIG compliance, DITSCAP, DIACAP, NIACAP, NIST RMF, eMASS, and DoD Authorization and Assessment processes

COVID Policy: Prospective and/or new employees are required to adhere with SAICs vaccination policy. All SAIC employees must be fully vaccinated and they must submit proof of vaccination on their first day of employment. Prospective or new employees may seek an exemption to the vaccination requirement at Contact Us and must have an approved exemption prior to the start of their employment. Where work is performed strictly at a customer site, customer site vaccination requirements preempt SAICs vaccination policy.OverviewSAIC? is a premier Fortune 500? technology integrator driving our nations technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers missions.We are more than 26,500 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a respectful work culture based on diversity, equity, and inclusion that values all contributors. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.1 billion. For more information, visit saic.com.

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