IT Systems Engineer
About The Position
SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer to serve as a Systems Administrator supporting the sustained operation and maintenance of a newly deployed U.S. Navy enterprise transport network. The role helps ensure 24/7/365 availability and reliability by providing end-to-end network, system, and element visibility and facilitating rapid operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning of a mission-critical network. The position requires technical expertise and a commitment to excellent service delivery. This is a shift-work role supporting 24/7 operations at the Navy customer’s site in Suffolk, Virginia. The employee must be able to work weekends and participate in a rotating on-call schedule.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline and two years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture and supporting a large network infrastructure; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Active Secret security clearance.
- Experience deploying and administering Linux and Windows Server.
- Experience with Active Directory and Group Policy.
- Experience with DNS.
- Experience with Python, BASH, PowerShell, or similar tools.
- Experience with Ansible (Tower), Puppet, Chef, Terraform, containerization, Jenkins, or similar technologies.
- Experience deploying virtual machines within VMware vSphere.
- Working knowledge of routers, switches, firewalls, and virtual private network devices.
- Understanding of TCP/IP routing and subnetting.
- IAT Level II certification is required (Security+ and OS certification); a six-month waiver is authorized to obtain the OS certification.
- Ability to work shifts covering a 24/7 operational environment, including weekends.
- Ability to cover a rotating on-call schedule.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Nautobot, RHEL Satellite, InfoBlox DDI, or Red Hat Linux 8.
- CompTIA Linux+, Red Hat Linux, or Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification.
Responsibilities
- Provide Tier 2 engineering operations support by identifying, triaging, and addressing outages, analyzing symptoms and potential root causes, implementing resolutions, and escalating to Tier 3 support when required.
- Use advanced monitoring tools and processes to oversee network infrastructure and monitor the performance and availability of managed services and systems across multiple exchange points.
- Perform day-to-day maintenance, fixes, configuration corrections, software and hardware updates, and deployments.
- Adhere to system and operational reporting obligations.
- Operate and maintain privileged access solutions.
- Continuously verify failover processes and disaster recovery procedures.
- Operate and maintain hardware upgrade processes and procedures.
- Update and maintain 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 equipment firmware, software updates, and patches current.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
