System Administrator, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton•Catonsville, MD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

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 for a research organization. You will maintain responsibility for the installation of new equipment and operating systems to best suit the needs of research to be conducted 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.

Requirements

Experience configuring and managing Linux and Windows operating systems, including supporting day-to-day operations, 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
Experience optimizing system operations and resource utilization and performing system capacity analysis
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
Associate's degree in an Information Technology field and 8+ years of experience as a systems administrator, Bachelor's degree in an Information Technology field and 6+ years of experience as a systems administrator, or 10+ years of experience as a systems 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
Knowledge of network engineering

Responsibilities

Support the operation, maintenance, and design of information technology resources within a laboratory for High Performance Computing (HPC) technology and data analytics for a research organization.
Maintain responsibility for the installation of new equipment and operating systems.
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.
Maintain responsibility for cutting-edge computing systems and the evaluation of their use for research.
Identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network.
Turn metrics into information and explain their meaning.