Sr. Systems Administrator

Overview

BRMi is seeking a Senior Systems Integrator to support the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Hosting and Storage Services On-Premise Cloud Support program. The Senior Systems Integrator will be responsible for integrating, engineering, implementing, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise hosting platforms supporting mission-critical biomedical research and business applications.

This position works across enterprise server infrastructure, virtualization, cloud platforms, databases, storage, backup, monitoring, automation, and application hosting technologies to ensure secure, reliable, and highly available hosting services. The Senior Systems Integrator will collaborate with infrastructure, networking, database, cybersecurity, and application teams to modernize the NIH hosting environment and improve operational efficiency.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Employer-Paid Life Insurance
• Employer-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid Time Off (PTO) that includes Vacation Leave, Sick Leave, and 11 Paid Holidays
• Educational Assistance

Salary: $95K-$110K

Hybrid in Bethesda, MD

• Integrate enterprise infrastructure across on-premises, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and public cloud environments.
• Engineer, implement, configure, and maintain enterprise hosting platforms supporting mission-critical applications.
• Support Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Oracle Linux, Solaris, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS, Cisco Hyper Flex, and related enterprise technologies.
• Design and implement infrastructure solutions supporting application hosting, virtualization, storage, backup, and cloud services.
• Coordinate infrastructure deployments, upgrades, migrations, and technology refresh initiatives.
• Integrate applications with enterprise hosting platforms while ensuring performance, scalability, availability, and security.
• Develop and implement automation, orchestration, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions to improve operational efficiency.
• Support cloud migration initiatives utilizing AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), NIH STRIDES, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Install, configure, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise virtualization and cloud infrastructure.
• Support enterprise storage, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
• Integrate enterprise monitoring, logging, and operational management tools.
• Perform root cause analysis and resolve complex infrastructure and platform issues.
• Develop architecture diagrams, implementation plans, engineering documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and operational runbooks.
• Support configuration management, change management, release management, and patch management activities.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity teams to implement RMF, NIST, FISMA, vulnerability remediation, and security compliance requirements.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements that enhance platform performance, reliability, security, and scalability.
• Participate in scheduled maintenance windows and provide after-hours operational support as required.
• Collaborate with Government personnel, vendors, and technical teams to ensure successful delivery of enterprise hosting services.
• Perform other duties as assigned

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in systems integration, enterprise infrastructure, cloud engineering, virtualization, hosting platforms, or systems engineering.
• Experience supporting enterprise Windows and Linux server environments.
• Experience integrating enterprise virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere.
• Experience supporting cloud technologies including AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with enterprise application hosting and infrastructure integration.
• Experience supporting server migrations, infrastructure upgrades, and technology refresh projects.
• Experience implementing automation using scripting or Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools.
• Experienc…