Senior System & Network Administrator

E&M Technologies•Hampton, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

E&M Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior System & Network Administrator to support the Air Force’s Falconer Air Operations Center (AOC) at Langley AFB, Virginia. The Falconer program supports Air Force component commanders in planning, directing, and assessing air, space, and cyberspace operations. The AOC ingests, analyzes, and disseminates command, control, and intelligence data for operations worldwide. The role supports fielding, deployment, administration, configuration, and sustainment of AOC systems and baselines. It includes systems and network administration, troubleshooting, security and configuration management, transition support, and participation in engineering, integration, verification, and validation activities. The position may require travel up to 25%. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and hold, and be able to maintain, a U.S. Department of Defense Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 7 or more years of hands-on Systems and Network Administration experience; or a Master’s degree and 5 or more years of experience; or equivalent industry certifications and experience in lieu of a degree.
Meet DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level III requirements, such as CompTIA Security+, within 30 days of hire.
Systems administration experience with Microsoft Windows Server and desktop operating systems; Active Directory and Group Policy; virtualization and hypervisors such as VMware vSphere/ESXi; Citrix Provisioning, XenApp, and StoreFront; Microsoft Exchange; System Center (SCCM/MECM); WSUS; WDS; SQL Server or other RDBMS; McAfee ePO; ACAS/Nessus; and Linux/Unix such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Network administration experience with Cisco Catalyst 9300 switches and Nexus 9300/9500 platforms; Cisco 8300 routers; Cisco UCS-X; virtual switching technologies such as VDS; ACLs using IOS/NX-OS; and firewall technologies such as Palo Alto, Juniper, and SideWinder.
Experience with NetApp FAS2750/8200/8300 or AFF C80 appliances and Data ONTAP or similar mass storage systems; CIFS/NFS; and network monitoring and access control tools such as SolarWinds NPM/NCM and Cisco Secure ACS or ISE.
Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
Must be a U.S. citizen.
Must have and be capable of maintaining a U.S. Department of Defense Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with public cloud service providers such as Azure and Google Cloud Platform, and preferably Amazon Web Services.
Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, Vault, Terraform, and Ansible.
Experience troubleshooting and resolving issues with cloud resource configurations and automation pipelines.
Strong communication and collaboration skills in high-performance team environments.
Experience administering domain-based enterprise IT services, including startup/shutdown, patching, scanning, user management, backup/restoration, service/log management, auditing, and performance tuning.
Experience with remote file systems such as CIFS/NFS.
Ability to identify and correct errors in technical diagrams and documentation, including installation, configuration, O&M, and V&V instructions.
Systems administration experience with GCCS-J, C2 Core Air, and JADOCS.

Responsibilities

Execute fielding objectives, including AREs, CSUs, FTs, FTTIs, and NOTAM-driven updates, within required timelines or as directed by the Technical Project Lead.
Deploy and configure new AOC baseline components, validate system readiness, and provide transition support and risk mitigation between fielded baselines.
Administer, configure, and sustain the installed AOC baseline while minimizing downtime.
Manage domain policies, apply security patches, tune systems, support application updates, and perform data migrations.
Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot LAN, WAN, and SAN environments; administer routing, switching, ACLs, and firewall policies.
Open, track, and resolve trouble tickets and close technical action items from site evaluations.
Participate in TIMs, AOC Production Center engineering and integration sessions, and post-installation reviews.
Submit recommended configuration changes to AOC Configuration Management and support Request for Variance actions.
Collaborate with team leadership to define achievable site-specific objectives, document lessons learned, and share metrics.
Support Verification & Validation assessments and other SPO-directed events.
Provide insights while testing or supporting future upgrades developed by the AOC Production Center.