SERVER LEAD

Igniters operate in the world's most demanding environment. Igniters are self-motivated, mission-driven, and relentless in solving the Warfighters' hardest problems. We move fast, think differently, and execute with precision to tackle high-stakes challenges across AI/ML, space and missile defense intelligence, EMSO, advanced analytics, and programmatic domains. As an employee-owned SDVOSB headquartered in Huntsville, AL, our team delivers mission-critical impact for the Army, Air Force, Space Force, MDA, NASA, DIA, and FBI.

Ignite exists to outpace the threat and deliver results that matter in the moments that count.

Ignite is currently seeking a driven Server Lead to join our team supporting the U.S. Army on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL. This position is expected to be onsite. The Server Lead will direct administration, sustainment, hardening, availability, backup, and lifecycle support for server and virtualization environments. The environment includes VMware ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, VCF, virtual machines and appliances, Red Hat OpenShift, VDI, Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, storage, and related enterprise services.

The Server Lead will assign and oversee systems-administration work, ensure long-term operational requirements are incorporated into planning, and maintain secure and highly available systems supporting classified and unclassified missions.

This position is pending contract award.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead systems administration and maintenance across separate classified and unclassified networks.
• Assign work, mentor administrators, review changes, and evaluate technical performance.
• Install, configure, harden, patch, monitor, tune, troubleshoot, and sustain servers, hypervisors, VMs, appliances, VDI, and container platforms.
• Maintain system availability, integrity, capacity, recoverability, and performance on a 24/7 basis.
• Plan and execute approved upgrades, maintenance windows, firmware updates, and lifecycle replacements.
• Maintain hardware/software baselines, configuration records, SOPs, audit evidence, and system documentation.
• Coordinate with network, cybersecurity, application, service desk, and architecture teams to resolve incidents and vulnerabilities.
• Operate and validate backups, replication, restorations, RPOs, RTOs, disaster recovery, and COOP reconstitution.
• Support user orientation, testing, higher-headquarters implementations, and Government technical reviews.