Sr Systems Administrator - Space Domain Security Clearance

Position: Sr Systems Administrator - Space Domain with Security Clearance
About Peraton Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit  to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure. Program Overview The program is a next generation Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Indications and Warning (I&W) system.

It establishes a repository of resident space objects (RSOs), finds RSOs of interest, and provides data to ground operators. About

The Role Peraton is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator in our Herndon, VA or Aurora, CO office in support of the EMMETT program, a next-gen Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Indications and Warning (I&W) system- an enterprise capability that catalogs resident space objects (RSOs), identifies RSOs of interest, and delivers timely data to ground operators. As part of the team you will support an exciting program which involves design, development, test, and deployment of a broad and complex system in an Agile construct to contribute to mission success for a variety of stakeholders.

Join us and be part of the next generation of innovators as we blaze a trail forward for our profession and company. What you'll do:

* Support our cloud-based classified environment, ensuring the uptime of infrastructure
* Perform daily system monitoring and monthly patching as part of the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) team
* Manage operating system configurations, system documentation, performance tuning, software installations and updates, system hardening, and storage allocation
* Help monitor and maintain mission-critical, highly available, high-performance networked systems in a team-oriented environment
* Work closely with other engineering teams to improve our platforms and eliminate complexity from architecture and processes
* Monitor and address tenant discrepancy reports
* Monitor and manage system resources to maintain efficiency Qualifications

Required qualifications:

* This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of TS clearance with SCI eligibility and the ability to pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at customers request- contract requires TS/SCI with poly. The candidate must maintain the clearance.

* Bachelor's degree in a field of study applicable to the position with 8+ years of relevant experience. 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree. A minimum of 8 years of experience in a previous System Administration role.
* Experience in system installation, patching and testing, and system configuration of networked services, file systems, basic scripting and authentication experience
* Operating System administration skills for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x and later to include building systems up from bare metal, performing software package installation, operating system and application troubleshooting, and implementing security hardening
* Apply patches, updates, and hotfixes using Red Hat Satellite, YUM, or DNF
* Experience ensuring consistent software versions across environments and systems are current
* Experience diagnosing / resolving system issues, analyze system logs using journalctl, dmesg, or /var/log
* Direct experience working in Windows and/or Linux operating systems
* Maintain detailed system documentation in Confluence, Git or other similar tools Desired

Qualifications:

* Experience with virtualization/cloud-based technologies (e.g. Open Stack, Citrix Xen Server Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and/or VMWare), Docker Containers, Ansible, and/or Heat templates
* Manage load balancing and failover systems…