Infrastructure System Administrator

SAIC•Panama City Beach, FL

5d•Onsite

About The Position

SAIC is seeking an Infrastructure Systems Administrator to support a foundational network in the Joint Expeditionary Command and Control (JEXC2) family of systems. JEXC2 includes command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence subsystems and networks, along with associated infrastructure and communications equipment. The role designs, configures, and supports virtual systems, maintaining operational state, performing upgrades, and improving VMware infrastructure. The position is onsite in Panama City Beach, Florida; local candidates are encouraged to apply.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of experience; 4 additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Active Secret clearance and ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance.
Strong understanding of VMware components including HA, DRS, vMotion, vRealize, NSX-T, and VMware Horizon View in a virtualized environment.
Knowledge of performance analysis for ESX hosts and guest systems, including CPU, memory, and I/O utilization.
Experience with PowerShell and Ansible.
Experience with disaster recovery and backups for virtualization infrastructure.
Strong troubleshooting skills.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Cisco UCS products and services.
Linux experience.

Responsibilities

Design, install, and administer VMware and Hyper-V virtualization products, including hypervisors, SDN, orchestration, vSphere, ESXi, VCSA, NSX-T, vSAN, and AOS.
Support and resolve escalated trouble tickets related to VMware customer issues, following up with users to ensure the problem is fully resolved from their perspective.
Perform regular software patching across the VMware virtualized environment.
Maintain the VMware environment for availability, reliability, and performance, including the underlying Nutanix and Cisco UCS hardware components.
Monitor and maintain infrastructure capacity, storage, and backups, and identify opportunities for improvement across infrastructure such as SAN, NAS, Ctera, Pure, and QNAP.
Support lab development and sustainment test events (SITs), including running test suites and test cards, updating or redlining test documentation, and resolving test-event tickets.
Respond to infrastructure data calls from leadership and assist with program-office data calls regarding capacity, licensing, and annual warranty or licensing renewals.
Identify opportunities for automation and implement them.
Create and maintain technical procedures, operational guides, and other documentation.
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.