System Administrator - Junior

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The Intel Security Sector delivers technology-enabled services and mission software capabilities for defense and intel customers in the areas of cyber, logistics, security operations, and decision analytics.

Your greatest work is ahead! This position will be located at one of our customer sites in Bethesda, MD;
Reston, VA; or Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, DC.

We are seeking a Systems Administrator. Your job will be to bring together systems administration, systems maintenance, and systems performance optimization. As an integral member of the team, you will work closely with other infrastructure, network engineers, and system engineers on the following key tasks:

• Perform builds, installs, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting in virtual and physical environments, including base configuration, security, and system patching.
• Provide OS hardening and system patching.
• Develop scripts to support patching, configuration, and other infrastructure team tasks.
• Set up administrator and service accounts, maintain system documentation, tune system performance, install system wide software, validate and implement system patches, including critical security patches.

Ideal candidates are motivated by mission impact, comfortable operating in complex stakeholder environments, and interested in building deep domain expertise while delivering capabilities with real-world national security outcomes. Successful candidates will work on projects to design, develop, and deploy software applications to support DIA/NDOC OSINT production on behalf of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE).

• Monitoring system health, network configuration and performing preventive maintenance.
• Working with more senior technicians in identifying, troubleshooting, and correcting hardware and software issues including network connectivity.
• Providing technical assistance to companion work groups in support of overlapping projects and maintaining good inter-departmental relations.
• Communicating with users and publishing status of any system outages, as needed.
• Proactively contacting customers when infrastructure processes are significantly delayed or may impact their ability to complete a business function on time.
• Participating in the creation and ongoing maintenance of documentation to ensure clear, concise, and accurate information is readily available to assist with incident resolution.
• Undertaking project work and providing support for implementing IT enhancements.

• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph.

• Bachelor's degree and less than 2 years of Systems Administration experience, including internships. Additional years of experience in lieu of degree are acceptable.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• US Citizenship is required.
• Experience working in an Agile project management environment.
• Experience documenting test results for corrective actions, reporting and audits.
• Experience with Windows Server (2016, 2019, 2022) and Windows Desktop (10/11).
• Experience with Windows Patching and Package management.
• Experience with Windows Server builds: virtual and physical.
• Experience with Group Policy Objects, Active Directory, Windows PKI infrastructure, Storage, Remote Access Server, DNS, DHCP and User Profile Management.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Enthusiastic with the ability to work well on a team and a self-starter who can work on their own.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data…