Systems Administrator with Security Clearance

System Administrator Clearance Level: Must have an Active Secret Clearance to be considered for this opportunity – Must be a US Citizen

Location:

Hybrid but must live within 100 miles from Lexington, MA At Aquila Technology, you will see our team’s passion every day, whether we are building a robust, policy-compliant IT system or stress-testing a system to identify gaps and security vulnerabilities. To own the advantage, we ensure our team owns results and gets the work done right the first time by deploying smart, purposeful solutions that work.

Aquila is the right people with the right skills driving the right outcomes. We call this the Aquila Advantage.

About the Role:

Aquila Technology is seeking a System Administrator to support one of the nation’s premier defense research organizations. Focus areas include acoustic and non-acoustic sensors, undersea networks, autonomous systems, and advanced signal processing algorithms. The team performs rigorous systems analyses, develops system architectures, and builds prototypes to demonstrate the viability and effectiveness of new concepts, capabilities, and processing techniques. In addition, the team provides undersea domain and technology expertise to inform and motivate novel cross-domain concept development.

Must Have
* Degree Level: Bachelor’s Degree
* 5 years – Software
* 5 years – VMWare
* 5 years – Configure and Manage Centralized Logging and Audit Capabilities
* 5 years – Enterprise Backup Solutions
* 5 years – Hardware:
Intel/AMD, Cisco, Sun/Oracle, Dell, Apple, EMC, Net App
* 5 years – Macintosh and iOS platform(s)
* 5 years – MS Active Directory, LDAP
* 5 years – Red Hat Linux 8/9
* 5 years – Redhat Linux Systems Administration
* 5 years – SCCM, and Active Directory
* 5 years – Strong Backup Experience and Proven Ability to Protect Mission Critical Data
* 5 years – Systems Administration
* 5 years – Technologies including DNS, DHCP, Proxy and Load Balancing
* 5 years – Ubuntu Systems Administration experience
* 5 years – UNIX platform, OSX, Cisco IOS
* 5 years – Virtualization Technologies (VMware, including ESXi and VCenter configuration)
* 5 years – Virtualization Technologies to include VM management, Snapshots, SANs and iSCSI Storage Systems
* 5 years – VM Ware ESXi and Associated Management Systems
* 5 years – Windows Patch Management
* 5 years
-Windows Server Administration (SCI classified environment)
* 5 years – Windows Server Platform

Responsibilities include:

* Administer GNU/Linux desktop/server environments, including Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Centos distributions
* Administer virtualized networks using VMware and other virtualization technologies. Administer Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh desktop environments, including Win 7 and OS X
* Support installation, maintenance, repair and upgrade of computer and network equipment
* Review and test new hardware and software applications, and make recommendations for purchases
* Design and implement shell scripts and other tools to automate processes and provide needed capabilities to technical staff
* Contribute to projects to improve aspects of the computing and network infrastructure: data storage, backups and recovery, network bandwidth and throughput, application installation and management
* Support design and implement configuration management and monitoring of systems and networks
* Collaborate with other personnel within the organization to enhance technology and support practices
* Maintain regular contact with IT and security resources and to rapidly
* reconfigure systems to report and remediate performance and security issues.

Required:

* Operating Systems: UNIX/Linux, Windows, OSX, VMware, Cisco IOS.
* Hardware:
Intel/AMD, Cisco, Sun/Oracle, Dell, Apple, EMC, Net App.
* Software/applications: SAP, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook), MS Active Directory, LDAP, Java, Java script, SQL, BMC Footprints, VMware, SCCM 2012, SCOM 2012, EMC Networker,
* Solarwinds.
* Networking applications and protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, NTP, DHCP, SSH, FTP and HTTP/S.
* Programming

Languages:

Perl, Python, Shell Scripting, Powershell.
* System auditing, hardening and…