Senior Systems Sustainment Administrator

SAICSuffolk, VA
$80,001 - $120,000Onsite

About The Position

SAIC is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as a Senior Systems Administrator with experience in US Navy IT networks to support the sustained operation and maintenance of a newly deployed US Navy enterprise transport network, ensuring 24/7/365 availability and reliability. The position will support end-to-end network, system, and element visibility; facilitate rapid operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning to maintaining the operational integrity of a mission-critical network, requiring both technical expertise and a commitment to excellence in service delivery. This position will work a schedule of 7AM – 3PM, 5 days per week to include weekends and a rotating on call requirement. Work will be performed at the Navy customer’s site in Suffolk, VA.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related discipline and five (5) years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture and supporting a large network infrastructure.
  • Secret Clearance required
  • Experience with Linux and Windows Server deployment and administration
  • Experience with Active Directory and Group Policy
  • Experience with DNS
  • Experience with Python, BASH, Powershell, or similar
  • Experience with Ansible (Tower), Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Containerization, Jenkins, or similar
  • Experience with deploying VMs within VMWare vSphere
  • Strong working knowledge with Routers, Switches, Firewalls, and Virtual Private Network devices
  • Good understanding of TCP/IP in regards to routing and subnetting
  • Windows Server / Active Directory
  • IAT Level II required (Sec + and OS Certification)

Nice To Haves

  • Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
  • Experience with Nautobot, RHEL Satellite, InfoBlox DDI, RedHat Linux 8 a plus
  • Certifications are considered a plus: CompTia Linux+, RedHat Linux, Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate

Responsibilities

  • Provide Tier 3 level engineering operations support to quickly identify, triage, and address outages, analyzing symptoms and potential root causes to implement effective resolutions or escalate to Tier 4 support as required
  • Utilize advanced monitoring tools and processes to oversee network infrastructure, monitor the performance and availability of managed services and systems across multiple exchange points, and ensure optimal performance
  • Perform day to day maintenance, fixes, configuration corrections, software and hardware updates, and deployments
  • Adhere to system and operational reporting obligations
  • Operate and maintain the privileged access solutions
  • Maintain continuous verification of failover processes and disaster recovery procedures
  • Operate and maintain hardware upgrade process and procedures
  • Update and maintain any 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 firmware, software updates and patches up to date for equipment

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