Position Description:

We’re hiring a System Administrator III with a background in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting cross-domain systems to work in Colorado Springs, CO in support of the US Air Force Space Mission. The successful candidate will work within a cross-functional team to provide hands-on experience designing, installing, configuring, monitoring and maintaining enterprise systems. The System Administrator must have a team-oriented and customer-focused attitude due to multiple locations and various end users. You’ll have an immediate effect on the warfighting efforts of our nation to maintain U.S. space dominance.

 

Work Location: Schriever SFB, Colorado Springs, CO

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee the execution of security measures called out in the security plan to include timely scans of network resources and software patches.
• Provide effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of production Linux Servers in a VMWare Virtualized Environment.
• Apply DISA STIG compliance controls to secure systems.
• Responsible for daily system monitoring, security, server health, resources and log management of Linux and Windows systems.
• Troubleshooting and performing root cause analysis. This includes troubleshooting any and all issues with system configurations, backups, files systems, and user access.
• Support RHEL platforms hosting applications, operations and sustainment systems, and ACAS and other security tools.
• Interface with engineers, systems engineers, and subject matter experts in the performance of your duties.
• Troubleshoot hardware, networking and software problems in multi-node environment.
• Configure and install operating system and application software on bare-metal computers, virtual machines or containers.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide support for off-hours issues (4-5 weeks/year).
• Create and maintain software documentation and updates.
• Be called upon to peer review other software design efforts and concepts within the center.
• Work with a highly technical team to perform evaluation tests.

Requirements

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering and 5+ years of experience; Master's degree and 3+ years of experience. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 3+ years of experience focused on Linux/UNIX system administration
• Must have a DoD 8570 Level II Certification (such as the CompTIA Security +, CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, CND, or SSCPy) and able to obtain environment certificate within 6 months of start
• TS/SCI
• Working knowledge of virtualization, VMware, remote desktop, remote computer management or equivalent

Desired Experience:

• Direct experience with network topology, data flows, firewalls, routers and switches
• Familiarity with Veeam or other backup solutions
• Ability to problem solve and think critically sometimes independent of significant experience or documentation of the problem area
• Strong customer communication skills
• Project management skills
  

Posted On: Thursday, September 26, 2024