Systems Administrator - Linux and Windows

Job Title: Systems Administrator - Linux and Windows Duration: 3 Years (High Possibility of Extension) Location:Lexington, MA

Job Description:
Clearance: must have an active secret clearance to be considered for this position. Work Schedule: Individual works from home or off-site for a portion of their schedule and within a routinely commutable distance from the Lexington facility. Candidates should expect to be onsite 4-5 days a week.
Interview: Candidate should expect large group interview with hiring team.

Detail:
Maintains operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination of infrastructure and cloud responsibilities. Develops and designs core operating system builds. Responsible for coding, virtualization, and automation of systems. Sets up administrator and service accounts, maintains an active directory of users and system documentation, tunes system performance, installs system-wide software, and allocates mass storage space. Assesses and resolves user access problems related to security controls to minimize business impact and risk exposure. Identifies and evaluates vendor products and establishes vendor monitoring and tracking processes. Performs capacity planning and monitors/tunes systems. Recommends appropriate platforms for purchase, coordinates installation, and provides backup recovery. Serves as a point of escalation for major incidents that are unresolved at the helpdesk level. Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources. May draft general IT communications to end-users including notifications of outages/downtimes. May serve as the primary liaison for mergers, acquisitions, and divesture activities as it relates to user access, network, security, and support.

Summary:
Group supports the client in many mission areas that include air vehicle survivability, vulnerability of client aircraft to weapons systems, electronic countermeasures and air surveillance for HLD. In support of these efforts, the group operates airborne and ground-based testbeds composed of state-of-the-art instrumentation and sensors. Group requires one full-time System Administrator to assist with the installation, maintenance, repair, upgrade of computer, data storage, and network infrastructure on these group testbeds.

The group seeks a Systems Administrator to become part of a team supporting IT computing and network infrastructure by providing end user support. Responsibilities include supporting the installation, maintenance, repair, and upgrade of computer, data storage, and network infrastructure on Group Testbeds. Candidate will support Linux and Windows based platforms, applications and users, review and test new hardware and software applications, design and implement shell scripts and other tools to automate processes, troubleshoot issues and provide the required capabilities to technical staff. Additional duties include supporting projects to improve aspects of the computing and network infrastructures such as data storage, backup and recovery, network bandwidth and throughput, application installation and management, help design and implement configuration management, monitor systems and networks and assist with configuration of network devices such as routers and switches.

Required skills:
Strong Linux experience
Vulnerability management
Solid understanding of Windows and network fundamentals
Experience installing, configuring and operating network services such as DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS, SSH, SAMBA, AD
Github Enterprise Administration
BackupExec
Excellent VMware vSphere, vMotion, and vSAN
Excellent ProxMox skills
Artfactory repository management
Atlassian Confluence, JIRA, and Bamboo management
ACAS
Splunk
Strong understanding for the client RMF and STIG process
Experience installing and configuring routers and switches
Must be team oriented, have strong communication skills and have the ability to work independently to develop novel IT solutions to enhance productivity and reliability of computing resources
Excellent customer service skills, communication skills, comprehensive and troubleshooting skills are required.