Systems Administrator

Security Clearance: Active TS clearance, SCI eligible.

Location: Linthicum Heights, MD

Job Type:Full-Time

Target Salary Range*: $115,000 - $135,000.

*This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintains smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network engineers.
• Monitors and manages system resources, including CPU usage, disk usage, and response times to maintain operating efficiency.
• Performs systems security administration functions, including creating user profiles and accounts.
• Other duties may include setting up administrator accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space.
• Interacts with users and evaluates vendor products.
• Makes recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinates installation and provides backup recovery.
• Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.
• Ability to implement, maintain, and manage physical and virtual systems and upgrades.
• May assign responsibilities for less experienced staff.
• Manage and maintain hardware and back-end software to support end users.
• Support multiple centralized anti-virus and patch management systems.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience, or Master’s Degree and 6+ years of experience, or 3 years with PhD. A degree must be in one of the following fields: Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Cybersecurity. In lieu of a degree in one of these fields of study, 4 years of additional relevant experience or specialized training may be considered.

Experience:

• Experience building and deploying physical and virtual servers.
• Active Directory Domain and Forest Design, Implementation, and Management.
• Strong familiarity with Group Policy Objects (GPOs).
• User and group management.
• PowerShell Scripting and Windows domain services.
• DoD security hardening (STIG/SCAP).
• DNS configuration and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Network Security Principles (Firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Prevention).
• A strong understanding of VMWare with the ability to install, configure, manage, and troubleshoot.
• A strong understanding of Omnissa Horizon with the ability to configure, deploy and troubleshoot.
• Familiarity with Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), RAID configurations and file system management.
• Familiarity with backup technologies.
• Familiarity with ACAS, Splunk, and SolarWinds.

Certifications:

• Active CompTIA Security+ certification (must upload a copy of the certification).
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• RHEL Administration Experience
• CI/CD automation (Ansible/Teraform)
• Cloud services (Azure/AWS)
• Disaster recovery planning and execution
• Gitlab
• Trellix

• Desired Certifications:
  

• CASP+
• CCNP Security
• CCSP
• FITSP-O
• GFACT