System Administrator

V2X • Colorado Springs, CO

10d • Onsite

About The Position

V2X is seeking a System Administrator to join its Ground-Based Radar Development (GBRD) team. The role supports the design of the Common Radar Back End platform layer—including servers, operating systems, containerized hosting, health and status, logging, and platform automation—across integration laboratories serving operational radar sites. The administrator will help ensure mission applications are hosted on a stable, secure, and well-documented platform and support mission-critical radar systems.

The position administers Linux and Windows systems, physical and virtual infrastructure, storage, containers, monitoring, logging, backup and recovery, and approved automation. It also supports system integration, cybersecurity requirements, developmental and operational testing, installation, troubleshooting, documentation, and technical coordination with engineering and program stakeholders. The work is office based, with possible occasional travel within and outside the continental United States and remote work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM, Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical discipline and at least 5 years of relevant experience; alternatively, an advanced degree in a related discipline and at least 3 years of relevant experience may be accepted.
• A minimum of 8 years of related experience is stated in the required skills.
• Additional directly relevant systems-administration experience may be considered in place of a degree, subject to company policy and applicable laws and regulations or generalized experience.
• Hands-on experience installing, configuring, administering, patching, and troubleshooting Linux server operating systems.
• Experience administering Windows Server environments, including services, accounts, permissions, patching, and troubleshooting.
• Experience managing physical servers, virtual machines, storage, file systems, system services, and operating-system dependencies.
• Experience with user and group administration, access permissions, authentication, privileged access, and account lifecycle management.
• Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of containers and container platforms such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or equivalent.
• Experience performing backup, restore, recovery, configuration backup, and system-rebuild activities.
• Experience applying secure configuration baselines, patching requirements, audit settings, and vulnerability-remediation actions.
• Ability to create and maintain accurate system documentation, administrator procedures, configuration records, and troubleshooting guides.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
• U.S. citizenship and an active DoD Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting radar, missile defense, space surveillance, command-and-control, sensor, weapon, or other mission-critical systems.
• Experience supporting laboratory-to-site deployments, systems integration laboratories, test facilities, or fielded operational systems.
• Experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Ubuntu Server, or comparable enterprise Linux distributions.
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite, Foreman, Spacewalk, Windows Server Update Services, or comparable patch and lifecycle-management tools.
• Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster administration and container image deployment.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management using Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Terraform, or equivalent.
• Experience with enterprise identity services such as Active Directory, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, Kerberos, or centralized authentication.
• Experience with clustered services, high availability, redundant systems, and degraded-mode operations.
• Familiarity with Risk Management Framework activities, NIST SP 800-53 controls, Security Technical Implementation Guides, and cybersecurity assessment evidence.
• Familiarity with configuration management, engineering change control, technical data packages, and digital engineering environments.
• Relevant certifications such as Security+, Linux+, Red Hat Certified System Administrator, Red Hat Certified Engineer, Microsoft, VMware, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
• Ability to work effectively with software, network, cybersecurity, systems engineering, test, installation, and operations teams.
• Ability to support occasional CONUS and OCONUS site travel.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, including Internet Protocol addressing, subnetting, Virtual Local Area Networks, Domain Name System, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, routing, switching, and firewall concepts.
• Ability to use Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or comparable scripting and automation tools for systems-administration tasks.
• Experience with system monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Elastic Stack, Splunk, syslog, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot Linux and Windows server operating systems in laboratory and operational environments.
• Apply approved operating-system baselines, patches, packages, drivers, firmware dependencies, user settings, and service configurations.
• Manage user accounts, groups, roles, permissions, authentication settings, and privileged access in accordance with approved procedures.
• Administer physical servers, virtual machines, storage resources, file systems, and supporting platform services.
• Support containerized hosting environments through node configuration, service deployment, image updates, configuration changes, service restarts, and basic cluster administration.
• Configure and maintain system monitoring, health and status, alerting, performance, capacity, and availability tools.
• Configure and maintain system logging, audit collection, log rotation, retention, search, export, and forwarding to centralized monitoring tools.
• Perform routine backup, restore, recovery, configuration backup, and disaster-recovery support activities.
• Execute approved automation scripts and tools for deployment, health checks, configuration validation, patch reporting, account management, and recurring administration tasks.
• Support system integration by building test configurations, applying approved changes, collecting diagnostics, and reproducing technical issues.
• Troubleshoot operating-system, storage, virtualization, container, service, account, performance, and interface issues, including issues blocking developers or test engineers; document corrective actions.
• Support rack installation, server setup, operating-system installation, cable and interface verification, configuration checkout, and post-installation validation.
• Maintain configuration documentation, as-built records, system inventories, software versions, hardware details, network settings, and administrator procedures.
• Support cybersecurity personnel by implementing approved hardening requirements, remediation actions, account controls, audit settings, and evidence collection.
• Support developmental and operational testing by collecting logs, isolating faults, reproducing issues, implementing approved corrections, and supporting retesting.
• Develop, document, and maintain system builds, network diagrams, administrator runbooks, checklists, standard operating procedures, recovery procedures, and training materials.
• Provide technical status, issue, risk, and configuration information to engineering and program stakeholders.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior