System Administrator, Mid

Booz Allen Hamilton • Usa, OH

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About The Position

The Opportunity: Your combination of people skills and system administrator expertise makes you the team hero, solving one problem after another. What if you could use those skills to improve the technology supporting our client? As a System Administrator on our project, you’ll support the operation, maintenance, and design of information technology resources within a virtual environment for High Performance Computing (HPC) technology, digital engineering, and data analytics. You will maintain responsibility for the installation of new equipment and operating systems to best suit the needs of analysis to be conducted and the engineers requiring support. You’ll support the review of current infrastructure to provide an overview and prepare plans for improvement and enhancement that will increase efficiency and security within the network. You will maintain responsibility for cutting-edge computing systems and the evaluation of their use for research in furtherance of the mission. Your system administrator expertise will be vital as you identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network. You’ll help your team better understand the network by turning metrics into information and explaining their meaning. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience configuring and managing Windows operating systems, including installing or loading operating system software, troubleshooting, maintaining integrity of and configuring network components, and implementing operating systems enhancements to improve security, reliability, and performance
• 3+ years of experience configuring and managing tools, such as Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, or WSUS
• Experience with using vulnerability analysis and configuration management tools, such as Splunk, ACAS, STIG, or SCAP
• Experience with supporting researchers, including resolving IT roadblocks or issues
• Experience with scripting languages such as BASH and PowerShell
• Knowledge of network engineering
• TS/SCI clearance
• HS diploma or GED
• DoD 8570 or 8140 IAT Level II Certification

Nice To Haves

• Experience administering, monitoring, and maintaining HPC systems, including compute nodes, storage, networking, and software stacks
• Experience optimizing system operations and resource utilization and performing system capacity analysis and planning
• Experience contributing to performance benchmarking, system tuning, and capacity planning
• Experience using Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management (MECM) tools
• Experience with system automation tools or system provisioning tools
• Experience with distributed storage systems and containerization tools, such as Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience with modern programming languages, such as python, C++, or JAVA
• Possession of strong verbal and written communication skills, to communicate with researchers to develop computing environments that will optimize results
• Bachelor's degree in System Administration, Network Administration, Computer Information Systems, or Computer Science

Benefits

• health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care
• recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED