Senior Windows Systems Administrator

DescriptionSAIC is seeking a Senior Windows Administrator to join our program as a general technologist to support our NOAA GFDLprogram in Princeton, NJ serving the NOAA GFDL lab in a highly scientific user and mission driven facility. This individualwould support both projects (60%) and user (40%) actives in a high interrupt tiered support environment requiring rapid response to the most complex customer systems inquiries.

The environment consists of a Core Windows Infrastructure running on mostly Dell Hardware, with 200+ Linux workstations, 50+ Windows Workstations, and 20+ Mac Workstations.

On a daily basis this individual may divide their time between (1) managing Junior System Admins to support lower level issues; (2) identifying, evaluating and prioritizing customer problems to ensure that inquiries are resolved appropriately;(3) conducting project work on several complex system projects simultaneously; and (4) managing and actively reporting on project status; (5) setting technical infrastructure direction and offering suggestions to improve and further automate the environment;

The ideal candidate must be an independent self-starter, be system agnostic, and adept at supporting Linux, Windows and Mac in a heterogeneous environment, where the Core Infrastructure is Windows, and have excellent customer facing communication and consultation skills (with managers and/or scientists).The duties will include, but not limited to:

- Providing Mid-Tier to Top-Tier System Administration for client and server systems in heterogeneous environment, wherethe Core Infrastructure is Windows based;

- System Administration – Maintain IT Security posture according to organization requirements, manage rigorous patching schedule for all system software and firmware, manage existing patching deployment tools, maintain and enhance current tools;

- Maintain, monitor, support, and upgrade as needed the infrastructure environment, including the Windows Core Infrastructure, and lead enterprise base work initiatives and projects;

- Support multiple systems or applications of medium to high complexity with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control,integrity and accessibility;

- Work with project managers to coordinate and plan project tasks and resources;

- Integration solutions with other applications and platforms based on requirements;

- Maintain a monthly patch schedule for all workstations, servers, cluster, hypervisors, etc.

- Coordinate changes across multiple systems;

- Perform routine maintenance tasks for infrastructure systems as follows, but not limited to:o Highly available virtualization and database clusters;o Web server clusters;o File Share services (NFS/CIFS);o Multi-Tiered Public Key Infrastructure;o Virtual Desktop Infrastructure;

- Working with engineers on the requirements and provides recommendations for improvements;

- Recommend changes/enhancements for improved systems availability, reliability and performance;

- Coordinates problem resolution among a variety of functional areas and provides subject matter expertise support for diagnosing and resolving problems;

- Recommend and implement software or hardware changes to rectify problems or address improvement opportunities;

- Ensure compliance with policies, procedures and standards;

- Provide technical guidance, coaching/mentoring to team members;

- Evaluate future technologies and makes recommendations for software and hardware upgrades;

- Generate and validate IT system baselines, including validation of documentation;

- Ensure IT system security basslines are met and security improvements are implemented across the server and client environment;

- Generate processes to ensure appropriate user privileges and access are granted, ensuring data integrity and security ismet;

- Work with vendors and architects to understand their technology roadmaps;

- Develop plans to adopt new technology;

- Writing/updating/enhancing system documentation concerning problem resolutions and HPC assets;

- Writing technical justifications for the procurement of hardware & software;

- Reviewing system inventory/warranty, plan upgrades for client and server systems;

Qualifications Bachelors Degree and 5+ years of experience is preferred, or 8 + years of experience in lieu of degree

Experience with medium to large server/data center environment;

Experience working with Hypervisors, chassis, blade servers, and Production Cluster;

Automation and Load Balancing Experience;

Experience with CAC authentication solutions such as…