System Administrator, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton•Catonsville, MD

15d

About The Position

System Administrator, Senior 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 laboratory for High Performance Computing ( HPC ) technology and data analytics. You will maintain responsibility for the installation of new equipment and operating systems to best suit the needs of research to be c ond ucted and the researchers 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

Experience configuring and managing Linux and Windows operating systems, including installing operating system software, troubleshooting, maintaining integrity of and configuring network components, and implementing operating systems enhancements
Experience monitoring and maintaining systems, including compute nodes, storage, networking, and software stacks
Experience supporting day-to-day operations, monitoring, and problem resolution for users
Experience optimizing system operations and resource utilization and performing system capacity analysis
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
Bachelor's degree in an Information Technology field and 10+ years of experience as a lead system administrator, or 15+ years of experience as a lead system administrator in lieu of a degree

Nice To Haves

Experience in shell scripting and programming in C or Python
Experience with Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM)
Experience with Unix operating systems
Experience with system automation and optimization tools
Knowledge of setting up and executing benchmarks in an HPC environment and analyzing results
Knowledge of network engineering