SERVER LEAD

Job Title

SERVER LEAD

Location

Category

Information Technology

Job Type

Full-Time

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Security Clearance Required

Secret

Igniters operate in the world's most demanding environment. Igniters are self-motivated, mission-driven, and relentless in solving the Warfighters' hardest problems. We move fast, think differently, and execute with precision to tackle high-stakes challenges across AI/ML, space and missile defense intelligence, EMSO, advanced analytics, and programmatic domains. As an employee-owned SDVOSB headquartered in Huntsville, AL, our team delivers mission-critical impact for the Army, Air Force, Space Force, MDA, NASA, DIA, and FBI.

Ignite exists to outpace the threat and deliver results that matter in the moments that count.

Ignite is currently seeking a driven Server Lead to join our team supporting the U.S. Army on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL. This position is expected to be onsite. The Server Lead will direct administration, sustainment, hardening, availability, backup, and lifecycle support for server and virtualization environments. The environment includes VMware ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, VCF, virtual machines and appliances, Red Hat Open Shift, VDI, Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, storage, and related enterprise services.

The Server Lead will assign and oversee systems-administration work, ensure long-term operational requirements are incorporated into planning, and maintain secure and highly available systems supporting classified and unclassified missions.

This position is pending contract award.

• Lead systems administration and maintenance across separate classified and unclassified networks.
• Assign work, mentor administrators, review changes, and evaluate technical performance.
• Install, configure, harden, patch, monitor, tune, troubleshoot, and sustain servers, hypervisors, VMs, appliances, VDI, and container platforms.
• Maintain system availability, integrity, capacity, recoverability, and performance on a 24/7 basis.
• Plan and execute approved upgrades, maintenance windows, firmware updates, and lifecycle replacements.
• Maintain hardware/software baselines, configuration records, SOPs, audit evidence, and system documentation.
• Coordinate with network, cybersecurity, application, service desk, and architecture teams to resolve incidents and vulnerabilities.
• Operate and validate backups, replication, restorations, RPOs, RTOs, disaster recovery, and COOP reconstitution.
• Support user orientation, testing, higher-headquarters implementations, and Government technical reviews.

• Ten (10) or more years of relevant systems-administration experience at the Senior/Lead level.
• Experience assigning personnel, directing technical activities, evaluating work, and planning long-term systems operations.
• Expert experience installing, maintaining, configuring, hardening, troubleshooting, and improving server operating systems and infrastructure software.
• Experience leading secure, high-availability enterprise server operations and after-hours incident response.
• Expert knowledge of VMware virtualization and enterprise Windows/Linux administration.
• Knowledge of Open Shift/container infrastructure, VDI, Active Directory/federation, storage, backup, monitoring, patching, STIGs, and vulnerability remediation.
• Ability to lead personnel with privileged access and maintain accurate configurations, SOPs, records, and change controls.
• Ability to provide on-site and after-hours support for mission-critical systems.
• CompTIA Security+ is required.

• VMware ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, SDDC Manager/VCF, Aria for Logs, Horizon/Omnissa,…