Senior System & Network Administrator

E&M Technologies, Inc.•Hampton, VA

1d•$100,000 - $115,000•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) program at Langley AFB, Virginia. The 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 in support of global operations. The role executes fielding objectives and deploys, configures, administers, and sustains AOC baseline systems. It includes Windows, Linux, virtualization, enterprise services, storage, and network administration, as well as troubleshooting, security maintenance, readiness validation, and support for upgrades and configuration management. Travel may be required up to 25%. The position requires U.S. citizenship and a DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility, which the successful candidate must be able to maintain.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 7 years of hands-on Systems and Network Administration experience, or a master’s degree and at least 5 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 another RDBMS; McAfee ePO; ACAS/Nessus; and Linux/Unix such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Network administration experience with Cisco Catalyst 9300 switches, Nexus 9300 and 9500 Series platforms, Cisco 8300 routers, Cisco UCS-X, virtual switching technologies such as VDS, ACLs (IOS/NX-OS), and firewall technologies such as Palo Alto, Juniper, and SideWinder.
Experience with NetApp FAS2750/8200/8300 and 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 pounds.
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, and support application updates and 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.