System Administrator

Overview

The System Administrator provides system administration for all systems and applications supported by DUSN (M) in compliance with DoW, DON, and DUSN (M) security guidance, orders and directives. Responsibilities include identifying and remediating vulnerabilities, implementing and testing security controls, assisting with software upgrades, and maintaining a healthy Department of the Navy Office of Administration (DON OA) – Information Technology Division (ITD) system.

• Perform tasks required to achieve and maintain Authorizations to Operate (ATOs) for all systems and applications supported by DUSN (M).
• Ensure all servers are virtualized, maintain accurate diagrams, and maintain baseline documentation of the server configurations.
• Provide system administration for applications residing in commercial and Government cloud-based environments; assist the Government with consolidation and rationalization efforts that could include migrating applications to an approved Navy hosting environment.
• Conduct and maintain daily and weekly backups on and off‑site for all production and identified development servers.
• Support disaster planning activities: developing, testing, or performing several layers of disaster procedures; off‑site storage and recovery processes; server and application reconstitution processes; and business recovery processes.
• Update and maintain the Disaster Recovery Plan and provide input during periodic training and disaster recovery drills.
• Test software patches and upgrades; assist the Government with adhering to Secure Technical Implementation Guides (STIG), Cyber Task Orders (CTO) and Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVAs).
• Provide problem resolution to restore services that have been degraded or have experienced a mission‑impacting service outage.
• Perform application/system monitoring of all services, including customer‑provided applications.

• Bachelor’s Degree in an IT‑related field with 3 years of experience.
• Demonstrated experience performing Automated Service Interruptions (ASIs) and STIG compliance.
• Have and maintain IAT Level II baseline certification.
• Registered IAT Level II baseline certification: either CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, or SSCP (preferred Security+ CE certificate).
• Secret Clearance.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability.