Systems Administrator (5249)

SMX

17d•Onsite

About The Position

SMX is looking for a highly motivated Systems Administrator with demonstrated experience to maintain the various systems used in a Software Development program. This position will provide support at Patuxent River NAS in southern Maryland. As the Systems Administrator, you will join a team of highly-driven, supportive, and skilled professionals engaged in supporting program management, technical, or business case analysis across the NAVAIR community.

Requirements

Clearance Required: Top Secret
At least an interim TS is required to start in this role
BS or BA degree in a Technical Discipline
High school diploma and 6 years’ additional experience within these functional duties; or an associate's degree and 4 additional years may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree.
At least 2 years of experience in system administration, performing the functional duties for this position
Risk Management Framework (RMF) compliance experience a must (example: scanning and Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) execution)
Operating System certificate (Linux or Windows)
COMPTIA Security+ or DOD 8140 compliant qualification
Knowledge of system administration principles, theories, and concepts
Understanding and familiarity of Linux operating system and virtual networking

Nice To Haves

VMware experience
Virtual networking experience
Experience performing system backups
Experience with Networking, Containers, and Active Directory

Responsibilities

Provide engineering solutions for various and unique problem sets and customers in a government software hosting facility.
Deploy and maintain physical and virtual hardware infrastructure, to include virtual machines and containers.
Perform routine maintenance and configuration changes to various physical and virtual hosts.
Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of hardware and software issues on servers, workstations, and IT equipment.
Maintain system backups and disaster recovery plans.
Manage user accounts and permissions.
Deploy and maintain software applications.
Troubleshoot technical issues.
Maintain documentation to include knowledge base, incident response actions, system configurations, and other information related to system administration.
Provide technical support to customers, ranging from resolving technical issues to providing guidance and best-practices.
Secure information systems and applications to current DoD guidance
Maintain configuration and security posture of information systems through continuous monitoring and routine security events/reporting.
Participate in project planning using Agile methodology.
Provide networking support to on-premises infrastructure.