Systems Network Administrator

Responsibilities

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Voice Switch and Recorder (VS&R) Program Office manages seven different programs that provide critical voice communications and legal recording systems that perform critical, high availability Air Traffic Control (ATC) communications within the FAA’s National Airspace System (NAS). The VS&R Program Office is responsible for acquisition of modern Internet Protocol (IP) ATC Voice Communications Systems (VCSs), which includes development of requirements, procurement, verification, validation, testing, implementation and deployment.

The VS&R Program Office also manages the full life cycle sustainment and logistics for the existing legacy ATC VCSs that are currently in use throughout the NAS.

The Systems Network Administrator will provide hands-on support to the FAA Test and Evaluation Lead and Technical Team at the William J. Hughes Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace to help FAA achieve technical milestones for verification, validation, test and deployment of modern IP-VCSs and Air-to-Ground Protocol Converters (APCs). The Systems Network Administrator Engineer will plan, design, install, configure, and maintain laboratory IP networks and Linux systems, including virtual machine management and equipment monitoring using industry standard open-source software solutions/data/operating systems.

The Systems Network Administrator Engineer will also perform software configuration management and maintain software issue tracking repositories. The Systems Network Administrator must understand the current and emerging client space and evaluate and apply practical and innovative concepts and methodologies to solve difficult problems.

The candidate must possess a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information System Security, Software Engineering or similar discipline, plus 6-17 years of relevant hands-on experience.

• Experience planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining laboratory IP networks consisting of multiple VLANs, subnets, domains (i.e., management plane, data plane), domain protection mechanisms (e.g., access control list enforcement), and constructed with enterprise grade network switches and routers
• Experience configuring managed routers and switches
• Experience designing and deploying high availability networks, including integration of high availability protocols
• Experience planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining laboratory Linux systems, including virtual machine management and equipment monitoring/ Network Management System (NMS) solutions, constructed with industry standard open-source software solutions, data, and operating systems (i.e., comfortable on the terminal, writing bash scripts, configuring packages and servers).
• Understanding of operating system structure and configuration (e.g. directory structure, device files, network configuration)
• Experience using automation tools such as Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, etc.
• Experience planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining organization software issue tracking and software repository solutions
• Strong software configuration management skills to ensure infrastructure configuration is reliably tracked and reproducible
• Understanding of systems development life cycles
• Understanding of Information System Security practices and methodologies
• Ability to prepare briefings to communicate and validate platform/Infrastructure features
• Ability to work independently, collaboratively, and under consultative direction with cross-functional teams comprised of FAA staff, vendors and contractor teams in a dynamic environment
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to evolving technical requirements.
• Ability to work remotely and onsite at the William J. Hughes Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace in New Jersey and to participate in on-call rotation and after-hours support as needed
• U.S Citizen or Green Card Permanent Resident (3+ years U.S. Residency)
• Ability to obtain FAA Public Trust.

• Knowledge of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
• Knowledge of the FAA National Airspace System (NAS)
• Experience with system requirements and design
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