Systems Administrator

Leidos•Chantilly, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Leidos has an exciting opening for you as our next Tier 2 Service Desk/Systems Administrator. Your job will be supporting as a Linux administrator to provide system maintenance, systems performance optimization along with user support services. You will work in a team environment while demonstrating strong cross functional collaboration across Tier 3 and ISP teams. Individuals in this role may be required to perform technical software configuration, rebooting, and other remedial actions on customer systems. Work will be conducted on-site at our Chantilly, VA location. Primary Responsibilities: Ability to quickly respond to system anomalies and independently make configuration updates to ensure 99.999% system availability requirements. Analyze Linux log data to effectively administer and maintain Oracle Identity and Access Management stack. Monitor system performance and take corrective actions as required Design, develop and implement new application monitoring software, as well as customizing existing monitoring tools to fit program needs. Investigate and resolve user application access issues. Resolve name change issues by updating system directory/LDAP with appropriate attribute changes from customer database. Document incidents, workaround, root cause analysis, and corrective actions Perform system checkouts and testing of system upgrades and patches in the operational environments Coordinate with enterprise partners on system outages and make decisions on system failover to different availability zones or data centers. Independently represent the program in supporting consumer or mission partner maintenance activities Coordinate communications with End Users, Tier 1, Tier 3, Management, mission partners, and Government Leadership Review and report meaningful metrics Produce written guides and operational procedures on how to utilize specific software tools to include custom Linux scripts and tailored COTS products.

Requirements

BS and 4+ years of prior relevant experience or additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
TS/SCI with Polygraph is required
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
Comfortable discussing technical information with users and other support personnel
Ability to quickly learn new software and IT concepts
Strong problem solving and decision-making skills
Ability to work autonomously as well as an integral member of a team
Linux/UNIX experience
Must be able to work in a Panama shift schedule, to include weekends.

Nice To Haves

Oracle IdAM products (OAM, OIF, OID, OVD, OUD, OIM)
WebLogic
Strong Linux/UNIX experience
LDAPs
PKI authentication

Responsibilities

Ability to quickly respond to system anomalies and independently make configuration updates to ensure 99.999% system availability requirements.
Analyze Linux log data to effectively administer and maintain Oracle Identity and Access Management stack.
Monitor system performance and take corrective actions as required
Design, develop and implement new application monitoring software, as well as customizing existing monitoring tools to fit program needs.
Investigate and resolve user application access issues.
Resolve name change issues by updating system directory/LDAP with appropriate attribute changes from customer database.
Document incidents, workaround, root cause analysis, and corrective actions
Perform system checkouts and testing of system upgrades and patches in the operational environments
Coordinate with enterprise partners on system outages and make decisions on system failover to different availability zones or data centers.
Independently represent the program in supporting consumer or mission partner maintenance activities
Coordinate communications with End Users, Tier 1, Tier 3, Management, mission partners, and Government Leadership
Review and report meaningful metrics
Produce written guides and operational procedures on how to utilize specific software tools to include custom Linux scripts and tailored COTS products.