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). Hybrid schedule arrangement with a minimum of two days per week in the APG office after a full-time onsite ramp-up period. 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. NO THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES, PLEASEMinimum 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.
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