Senior Systems Sustainment Administrator Security Clearance

Position: Senior Systems Sustainment Administrator with Security Clearance
Description SAIC is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as a Senior Systems Administrator with experience in US Navy IT networks to support the sustained operation and maintenance of a newly deployed US Navy enterprise transport network, ensuring 24/7/365 availability and reliability. The position will support end-to-end network, system, and element visibility; facilitate rapid operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning to maintaining the operational integrity of a mission-critical network, requiring both technical expertise and a commitment to excellence in service delivery.

This position will work a schedule of 7AM - 3PM, 5 days per week to include weekends and a rotating on call requirement. Work will be performed at the Navy customer's site in Suffolk, VA. Specific

Duties Include:

* Provide Tier 3 level engineering operations support to quickly identify, triage, and address outages, analyzing symptoms and potential root causes to implement effective resolutions or escalate to Tier 4 support as required

* Utilize advanced monitoring tools and processes to oversee network infrastructure, monitor the performance and availability of managed services and systems across multiple exchange points, and ensure optimal performance

* Perform day to day maintenance, fixes, configuration corrections, software and hardware updates, and deployments

* Adhere to system and operational reporting obligations

* Operate and maintain the privileged access solutions

* Maintain continuous verification of failover processes and disaster recovery procedures

* Operate and maintain hardware upgrade process and procedures

* Update and maintain any software builds applicable to deployed equipment

* Operate and maintain asset management processes and procedures

* Operate and maintain configuration management

* Enact change management for the solution

* Operate and maintain existing incident management processes

* Keep firmware, software updates and patches up to date for equipment Qualifications Required

Education and Experience:

* Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related discipline and five (5) years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture and supporting a large network infrastructure. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
Required Security Clearance:
* Secret Clearance required
Required

Skills and Experience:

* Experience with the following:
Linux and Windows Server deployment and administration;
Active Directory and Group Policy; DNS;
Python, BASH, Powershell, or similar;
Ansible (Tower), Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Containerization, Jenkins, or similar; and deploying VMs within VMWare vSphere

* Experience with the following a plus:
Nautobot, RHEL Satellite, Info Blox DDI, Red Hat Linux 8

* Strong working knowledge with Routers, Switches, Firewalls, and Virtual Private Network devices

* Good understanding of TCP/IP in regards to routing and subnetting

* Windows Server / Active Directory
Required

Certifications:

* IAT Level II required (Sec + and OS Certification)
Working Environment and Travel:
* Travel up to 25% may be required

* Able to work shifts to cover a 24x7 operational environment

* Able to cover on-call schedule on a rotating basis
Desired:
* Certifications are considered a plus:
Comp Tia Linux+, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Certified:
Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.