Systems Administrator Principal

General Dynamics Information Technology

9d•$78,200 - $105,800•Remote

About The Position

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Administrator Principal and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As a Systems Administrator Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of Department of Veterans Affairs.

Requirements

Education: Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree
Experience: 5+ years of related experience
Technical skills: Java 17+, Spring Boot, Reactive RESTful Web Service Development with Spring WebFlux, Streams, Kafka, Redis, Oracle database, React/Next.js UI framework, Github, Kubernetes, and Docker. Ensure the stack enhances performance, security, and maintainability
Security clearance level: 2 - Moderate Risk

Responsibilities

Oversee the installation, configuration and maintenance of servers including physical and virtual environments.
Collaborates with stakeholders to understand business needs and requirements and provide appropriate solutions.
Manage the Active Directory, and other core IT services.
Monitor systems performance and troubleshoots moderate to complex issues to ensure high availability and reliability.
Perform maintenance such as patch management, updates and backups.
Plan and execute systems upgrades and hardware/software installations.
Ensure systems are updated with latest security patches and software updates.
Implements and maintains security measures to protect systems from unauthorized access and vulnerabilities.
Conduct security audits and assessments to ensure compliance with organization policies and regulatory requirements.
Develop, manage and test backup and recovery procedures to ensure data integrity and availability.
Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans for critical systems and services.
Participate in disaster recover drills and business continuity planning.
Provide support to end users and other IT staff by resolving complex hardware, software and system related issues.
Maintain detailed documentation of system configurations, procedures and changes.
Create reports on system performance, security incidents and other key metrics.
Coordinate with other IT teams to ensure coordinated delivery of IT services.
Provide recommendations for system improvements based on analysis and industry best practices.
Perform additional duties as assigned.
May assist in the development of IT policies and procedures.
May coach and provide guidance to less experienced professionals.
May serve as a team or task lead.

Benefits

Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.