Systems Administrator, Senior Security Clearance

POSITION:
Systems Administrator – Senior

LOCATION:

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD SCOPE:

Serves as a Senior Systems Administrator on a major IT support contract for the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) Headquarters Information Systems Directorate (G6) RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Windows Server Active Directory (AD) configuration and administration including policy management
• Performs Windows Server systems administration including troubleshooting, monitoring, and support.
• Manages VMware environment, including systems deployment, patching, STIG/hardening and troubleshooting.
• Windows event and performance monitoring; and management of hosted systems software platforms.
• Resolves complex issues associated with system configuration management, resource sharing and basic networking troubleshooting and problem identification.
• Resolves complex security issues including identity management, records retention, and implements destruction policies.
• Uses and writes operating system commands and scripts, manages disk configurations, maintains hardware and software RAID 1-N, performs migration, backup and recovery using scripting languages, such as Bash, Power Shell, Python, Ruby, and/or Perl.
• Supports performance tuning, capacity planning and bottleneck resolution, administration of Microsoft Servers, building and maintaining high-availability, clustered and scalable systems, and load balancing
• Manages production environments using automated install, automated build and deployment, automated configuration management, enterprise monitoring systems, server virtualization, load balancing, web servers, and application servers.
• Supports storage hardware and environments (i.e. Commvault)
• Works with CISCO Unified Computing System (UCS)
• Supports HBSS configuration management and troubleshooting (e.g. McAfee/Trellix)

• May lead 5 or more employees
• Master’s Degree in a directly related field and at least 5 years' experience;
  Lower-level degrees in relevant fields will be considered with additional experience.
• Must possess a Security+CE (or equivalent DOD Directive 8570.1 IAT II)
• Must hold at least one (1) current Computing Environment (CE) certification (e.g. MCSE, MCSA, etc.) or be able to obtain one within 6 months of start
• Five (5) plus years of experience leading five (5) or more employees
• Expertise in Active Directory (AD) configuration and policy administration
• Experience in VMWare systems (or VMWare alternatives) including troubleshooting and monitoring
• Experience in resolving complex issues associated with configuration management. resource sharing and basic networking troubleshooting and problem identification.
• Experience in resolving complex security issues, identity management, records retention, and adhering to destruction policies
• Experience using and writing operating system commands and scripts, and scripting languages, including one or more of Bash, Powershell, Python, Ruby, and/or Perl.
• Experience in TCP/IP, firewalls and routing
• Experience with performance tuning, capacity planning and bottleneck resolution
• Experience in resource allocation and utilization for large databases, disk configuration, including the maintenance of hardware and software RAID 1-N
• Experience in database design, data modeling and query execution, database replication, migration, backup and recovery
• Experience performance tuning, capacity planning and bottleneck resolution, building and maintaining high-availability, clustered and scalable systems
• Experience managing a production environment with the following: automated install, automated build and deployment, automated configuration management, enterprise monitoring systems, server virtualization, load balancing, web servers, and application servers,…