Systems Administrator

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Brief end users on system status and provide on-site administration support to users and engineers.
• Administer systems for routine, emergency, test, and exercise events in accordance with technical manuals, instructions, and checklists.
• Manage user and group accounts, profiles, and policies; provide on-the-job and one-on-one system training.
• Monitor mission-system performance and link status; collect logs for service disruptions and support resolution and post-event forensics.
• Detect and correct faults, troubleshoot emergent issues, and document maintenance activities in the approved tracking system.
• Perform backups, archiving, recovery, restoration, startup, reboots, and shutdowns using approved procedures.
• Support remote-site scheduled and corrective maintenance and similar operations and maintenance activities in operations and lab environments.
• Assist end-user engineers with system problem analysis, system coding, test verification, and problem-report documentation.

Required skills and qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Information Security, Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, MIS, or a related field.
• Teamwork, prioritization, time management, and problem determination and resolution abilities.
• Experience with Red Hat and Windows systems administration, virtualization, VMware ESXi/vSphere, VDI, and NAS/SAN or similar storage.

Desired skills

• Microsoft Active Directory, Windows security permissions, Red Hat Linux/Unix, network interfaces, addressing and naming services, and computing and networking security management processes are desired.
• Red Hat IdM, VMware Horizon, VMware vSAN, Windows Server 2012/2016, Windows 10/7, and JBoss or Tomcat application servers are desired.
• Good IT skills across software packages are advantageous.