SME IT Systems Administrator – Linux

SME IT Systems Administrator - Linux

Redstone Arsenal/Huntsville, AL

At IPT Associates (IPTA), we enjoy solving real-world problems with technology. We work closely with our customers, teammates, experts, and partners to come up with practical solutions that make a difference. Whether it's a government or business organization, we focus on understanding the need and building something that works.

At IPTA, everything starts with our people. We're big believers that when you invest in your team, great things happen. That's why we encourage learning, growth, and trying new things-even if you don't have all the answers yet.

Our culture is rooted in fierce determination, fearless integrity, and passionate service
-but we also like to keep things collaborative, supportive, and down-to-earth.

We're looking for people who:

• Are curious and excited about technology
• Like solving problems and figuring things out
• Can take initiative but also enjoy working with a team
• Want to keep learning, growing, and challenging themselves

If you're someone who's eager to jump in, learn something new, and make an impact-you'll fit right in here.

The Senior IT Systems Administrator team lead is responsible for the administration, engineering, security, performance, availability, and lifecycle management of enterprise Linux infrastructure while providing technical leadership to a team of systems administrators.

• Serve as the technical lead for Linux systems administration, operations, maintenance, and engineering activities.
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership and guidance to Linux systems administrators and supporting infrastructure personnel.
• Assist management with workload planning, prioritization, scheduling, and assignment of technical tasks.
• Coordinate team activities to ensure operational requirements, project milestones, service-level objectives, and cybersecurity deadlines are achieved.
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex Linux operating system, infrastructure, application, security, and performance issues.
• Lead troubleshooting sessions and coordinate cross-functional technical teams during major incidents or service disruptions.
• Review technical solutions, system configurations, implementation plans, change requests, and administrative procedures for quality and technical accuracy.
• Provide technical direction for Linux server architecture, configuration standards, operating-system baselines, security configurations, and lifecycle management.
• Mentor junior and mid-level systems administrators and provide technical coaching, knowledge transfer, and cross-training.
• Identify team knowledge gaps and recommend training, certifications, documentation, and cross-training initiatives.
• Promote standardized processes, repeatable procedures, automation, and engineering best practices across the administration team.
• Support onboarding and technical development of new team members.
• Assist management with evaluating technical capabilities, staffing requirements, resource constraints, and infrastructure support needs.
• Provide technical input for employee development, training plans, and performance discussions when requested.
• Coordinate work across Linux, Windows, network, virtualization, storage, cybersecurity, and application support teams.
• Represent the Linux administration team during technical meetings, engineering reviews, CAB meetings, project planning sessions, and operational reviews.
• Lead technical planning for infrastructure upgrades, migrations, modernization initiatives, and major maintenance activities.
• Ensure team documentation, procedures, system records, and knowledge articles remain accurate and current.

• Install, configure, administer, maintain, engineer, and troubleshoot enterprise Linux operating systems, primarily Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Perform server provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrading, hardening, optimization, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain Linux systems supporting production, development, test, engineering, and infrastructure workloads.
• Develop and maintain standardized enterprise Linux server builds, configurations, templates, and security baselines.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting of operating system, application, networking, authentication, storage, virtualization, and performance issues.
• Monitor system availability, CPU utilization, memory, storage, processes, services, logs, and resource utilization.
• Perform Linux…