Systems Administration, Lead Associate

Peraton•Landover, MD

3d•$86,000 - $138,000

About The Position

The System Administrators will maintain the smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network administrators. This role involves interacting with users, evaluating vendor products, and making recommendations for hardware and software purchases. The position coordinates installation, provides backup recovery, and develops and monitors policies and standards for the allocation and use of computing resources. Ancillary duties include setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system-wide software, and allocating mass storage space. Additional responsibilities include installing, configuring, and maintaining Oracle Sun Server X4 Series, x86 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) including virtualized servers. Perform regular day-to-day Systems Administration activities such as User Administrations, Disk Management, Package Install, Patch Management, Storage Management, NFS Administration and disaster recovery/fail-over. Identify, analyze, fix, and determine root cause, follow-up and coordinate changes to resolve complex problems involving hardware, software, networking and applications. Ensure backups are completed successfully and perform backup restores. Monitor and ensure adequate security for hosts and provide access control for file systems. Assist in the maintenance of a virtualized server environment using VMWare, including creating and configuring hosts and VMs and allocating corresponding system resources. Maintain and patch existing hosts and VMs using VMWare COTS product. Support a variety of server and desktop COTS, agents, and GOTS applications. Maintain operational procedures and guides and create tickets to document all break/fix incidents.

Requirements

5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; 0 years with PhD
DOD 8570 Compliant IAT Level II Certification.
Active TS/SCI clearance is required for this position.

Responsibilities

Maintains smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network administrators.
Interacts with users and evaluates vendor products.
Make recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinates installation and provides backup recovery.
Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.
Setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space.
Installing, configuring and maintaining Oracle Sun Server X4 Series, x86 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) including virtualized servers.
Perform regular day-to-day Systems Administration activities such as User Administrations, Disk Management, Package Install, Patch Management, Storage Management, NFS Administration and disaster recovery/fail-over.
Identify, analyze, fix, and determine root cause, follow-up and coordinate changes to resolve complex problems involving hardware, software, networking and applications.
Ensure backups are completed successfully.
Perform backup restores.
Monitor and ensure adequate security for hosts and provide access control for file systems.
Assist in maintenance of virtualized server environment.
Create and configure hosts and VMs and allocate corresponding system resources as required.
Maintain and patch existing hosts and VMs using VMWare COTS product.
Support a variety of server and desktop COTS, agents, and GOTS applications.
Maintain operational procedures and guides and create tickets to document all break/fix incidents.