Systems Administrator

Role details

System administration and support

• Brief end users on system status and provide onsite administration support to users and engineers.
• Perform routine, emergency, test, and exercise administration in accordance with manuals, instructions, and checklists.
• Create, manage, and delete user and group accounts, profiles, and policies; provide on-the-job training and one-on-one assistance.
• Monitor mission-system performance and link status, collect logs after disruptions, and support issue analysis and forensics.
• Detect errors, correct faults, and troubleshoot emergent system issues.
• Back up, archive, recover, and restore systems; perform startup, reboot, and shutdown procedures.
• Record maintenance activity and support scheduled and corrective maintenance at remote sites.
• Provide technical guidance on system problems, analysis, coding, testing, and problem reports; support operations and lab environments.

Required qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Information Security, Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, MIS, or a related field.
• Ability to work well in a team, prioritize tasks, and manage time to meet program needs.
• Problem determination and resolution ability.
• Experience with Red Hat and Windows systems administration, virtualization, VMware ESXi/vSphere, VDI, and NAS/SAN or similar storage.
• Good IT skills across software packages are advantageous.

Desired skills

• Desired knowledge includes Active Directory, Windows security permissions, Red Hat Linux/Unix, network interfaces, addressing, naming services, and security management processes.
• Other desired systems include Red Hat Identity Management, VMware Horizon and vSAN, Windows Server 2012/2016, Windows 10/7, and JBoss/Tomcat application servers.

Work setting

• The role explicitly requires onsite system administration support and includes support for remote-site maintenance activities.