Systems Administrator with Security Clearance

As part of several openings of ours in Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, GovStaff is seeking a mid-level experienced Systems Administrator to serve under a major IT support contract for the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC). Offering a team oriented challenging work environment, an attractive salary, excellent benefits, and an opportunity to work with a leading tech firm with more than 35 years' worth of experience and expertise providing information technology/management, data management, logistics, system engineering, and program management solutions to the Federal Government. Hybrid work schedule with minimum two days per week in the APG office, after a full-time onsite "ramp-up" period. NO THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES, PLEASE
Minimum Secret Security Clearance QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree and 7 years' experience; experience which may include education/specialized training/certifications may be substituted for education.

• Experience in VMWare systems administration including troubleshooting and monitoring

• Experience in resolving complex issues associated with configuration management. resource sharing and basic networking troubleshooting and problem identification.

• Experience in resolving security issues, identity management, records retention, and adhering to destruction policies

• Experience using and writing operating system commands and scripts, and scripting languages, including one or more of Bash, Powershell, Python, Ruby, and/or Perl.

• Experience with performance tuning, capacity planning and bottleneck resolution, administration of Microsoft Servers, building and maintaining high-availability, clustered and scalable systems, advanced web technologies such as ASP.NET, pipeline, load balancing, etc.; managing production environments using automated install, automated build and deployment, automated configuration management, enterprise monitoring systems, server virtualization, load balancing, web servers, and application servers

• Experience managing or working with Windows Server and Linux Operating systems and associated configuration tools is desirable.

• Experience and/or working knowledge of Kubernetes is desirable.

• Experience/exposure to managing and maintaining the cloud infrastructure services and servers (e.g., Azure) is desirable

• Education or certification must be in an IT discipline related to the assigned program area (e.g Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer or Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, Computer Forensics/Security, etc.).

• Must possess current Security+ (or equivalent DOD Directive 8570.1 IAT II) RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performs Windows Server systems administration including troubleshooting, monitoring, and support;

• Windows event and performance monitoring; and management of hosted systems software platforms.

• Resolves basic and intermediate issues associated with system configuration management, resource sharing and basic networking troubleshooting and problem identification.

• Resolves security issues including identity management, records retention, and implements destruction policies.

• Uses and write operating system commands and scripts, manages disk configurations, maintains hardware and software RAID 1-N, performs migration, backup and recovery using scripting languages, such as Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, and/or Perl.

• May support performance tuning, capacity planning and bottleneck resolution, administration of Microsoft Servers, building and maintaining high-availability, clustered and scalable systems, and load balancing.

• Manages production environments using automated install, automated build and deployment, automated configuration management, enterprise monitoring systems, server virtualization, load balancing, web servers, and application servers. At GovStaff, we operate in strict confidence: We do not share resumes, names, or applications outside of GovStaff, unless given express consent by each candidate. We welcome all cleared professionals to our GovStaff Network, regardless of current job seeking status. If you feel this key opening may meet your experience and interests, please apply. If this position does not meet your interests or the requirements, all applications are still welcomed. We'll gladly hang onto your profile in the event another position opens that could be a match for your experience and interests. GovStaff, and all our business partners, adhere to all EEOC regulations.