Senior System Administrator

Seneca Holdings

About The Position

Great Hill is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator. This position will entail supporting the Naval Air Systems Command (NavAir), in particular, the Digital Analytics, Infrastructure and Technology Advancement (DAiTA) Group and the Naval Leveraging Innovation, Frameworks and Technology (LIFT) and Integrated Modeling Environment (IME) projects. Specifically, this position will provide support to the Navy Lift and IME service desk and user group, documenting the acknowledgement to resolution process system maintenance, outages and upgrades. Additionally, the Senior System Administrator may provide support by installation, configuration, and maintenance of an organization's local area network (LAN), data communications network, operating systems, and physical and virtual servers. Perform System monitoring and verify the integrity and availability of hardware, network, and server resources and systems. Review System and application logs and verify completion of scheduled jobs, including system backups. Analyze network and server resource consumption and control user access. Install and upgrade software and maintain software licenses. May assist in network emulation/virtualization, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software. This position will be a pivotal member in providing support to the Analytic Master Plan (AMP) Digital Platform (DP) and the Naval LIFT project manager. This position will support implementing and integrating capabilities within the Atlassian Suite (including, but not limited to Jira, Confluence, and Big Picture Enterprise), thus enabling end users to have ability to ‘look left’ (review past analysis to develop new insights and refine hypothesis) and ‘look right’ to understand how project plans are integrated in support of Navy’s budget and force design schedules.

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field or 15 years’ experience working in computer science, information technology.
Understanding of Kubernetes concepts, architecture, and components.
Scripting and Automation: Ability to automate tasks and scripts using tools like Ansible or Terraform.
Demonstrated experience with Atlassian software.
Skilled in servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
Demonstrated ability to build, develop, and coach high-performing software development teams
Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment and work on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously without impact to quality of work
Demonstrated experience in issue identification and resolution
Moderate to expert-level knowledge of JIRA or other agile tools to measure team productivity and report metrics
Must possess and utilize exceptional communication skills to keep teams operating at maximum efficiency while also ensuring that senior leaders and executive management are always informed of progress
Excellent communication and mentoring skills
Adaptable and flexible in a cross-functional environment
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to lead retrospectives, document outcomes, and guide team members in best practices

Nice To Haves

Red Hat OpenShift Skill Paths
Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator (EX280):
OpenShift CLI (oc)
Kubernetes API

Responsibilities

Managing and maintaining the file servers
Deploy, manage, and maintain highly available OpenShift clusters.
Monitor the health and performance of the OpenShift cluster and troubleshoot issues.
Utilize the OpenShift CLI (oc) for managing and interacting with the platform.
Operating the firewall for the organization
Monitoring the internet connection for security risks
Employing the latest security protocols
Monitoring the local area network (LAN) for threats or errors
Classify various software anomalies.
Develop software quality assurance plans.
Establish software quality metrics and methodologies.