System Administrator with Security Clearance

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Job description

Systems Administrator- Chantilly, VA
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills regarding developing project briefings, updating system designs, rack elevations, wiring diagrams, and system outage after action reports
• Understanding of all phases of the software development lifecycle; the System Engineering Life Cycle; and the ability to comprehend user business needs and concerns and integrate that understanding with technical skills
• Provides Linux platform support (i.e. RHEL, CentOS) and administrative support, including management and troubleshooting
• Illustrates hands-on knowledge and experience building and deploying automated server and workstation builds across an enterprise infrastructure with environments that are logically separated
• Illustrates hands-on experience and understanding of proactive monitoring concepts, including experience configuring and deploying Network and systems monitoring (i.e. SNMP, Splunk, etc.)
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware/software issues, restore the environment to an operational state with minimal downtime, perform root cause analysis and provide a forward leaning mitigation strategy
• Proficient in Cloud Computing, Competencies of systems including: Fault tolerance, High availability, Scalability and Capacity planning, Data center organization, and Backup / Recovery
• Illustrates knowledge of at least three of the following technologies: Encryption, IDS/IPS, Firewalls, Anti-Virus, VPNs, SSL
• Researches emerging technologies to determine impact on application/system integration and execution
• Work with developers/engineers across disciplines to define customer and system requirements; design a solution that meets the current requirements and is scalable to meet future enterprise requirements
• Provides experience with patching and maintaining server build
• On-Call -Required to carrier a pager REQUIREMENTS
Required Skills, Experience, and Education: Candidate must have 10 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 3 years of experience OR Masters and 4 years, Bachelors and 6 years, Associates and 8 years or HS and 10 years. Must comply with DoD 8570 IAT Level 2.
Required Clearance: Active TS/SCI, with CI Poly
Desired:
• Displays understanding of open source frameworks, with experience deploying various open source packages and/or application stacks into sponsor's production landscape
• Establishes ability to deploy and maintain Linux baseline for physical and virtual platforms
• Establishes ability to develop and maintain capacity metric
• Interprets and implements new concepts, technologies and products quickly
• On-Call -Required to carrier a pager
• Team player, work independently and manage multiple task assignments
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills regarding developing project briefings, updating system designs, rack elevations, wiring diagrams, and system outage after action reports
• Illustrates experience performing trend analysis on overall system health, performance, and capacity management regarding utilization and growth

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