System Administrator Expert

Title: System Administrator (Expert+)

Duration: Full-time

Location: Chantilly, VA

Clearance: Top Secret w/ Full Scope

Looking for a highly motivated, expert-level System Administrator to maintain and monitor an environment handling large amounts of data in a secure environment.

Responsibilities will include:

Monitor the systems logs and applications daily. Automate this monitoring to the extent possible

Conduct system backups on an interval agreed upon with the Sponsor

Conduct data archiving on an interval agreed upon with the Sponsor

Perform system hardening of Linux and Windows systems according to information security engineering principles and industry best practices

Maintain all servers, including Windows servers, Linux servers, Oracle database servers, Apache servers, DNS servers, and Domain controllers

Apply server patches and operating system updates in a timely fashion as defined by the Information Systems Security Manager (ISSM). Automate this process to the extent possible

Assist the Sponsor with hardware and software acquisitions and implementation

Ensure software licenses are renewed as appropriate

Obtain Sponsor waivers as necessary

Submit Discrepancy Reports (DR) and Requests for Change (RFC) through the appropriate Sponsor channels

Work closely with the ISSM and other customer security elements as required

Required Skills & Demonstrated Experience

Minimum 15 years of experience in Systems Administration.

Experience performing security scans and compliance scanning.

Independent worker.

Experience administering Linux and Windows environments to include system hardening.

Knowledge of Data Systems environments.

Education: Bachelors degree or higher in the field of computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, or other related scientific or technical discipline. If the candidate does not have a Bachelor's degree, they must have (5) additional years of experience.

Desired Skills & Demonstrated Experience

Knowledge of engineering in virtual environments (VMWare, VCenter, Hyper-V).

Knowledge of Solarwinds.

Windows Server 2016, 2019, and Windows 10.

Windows patching to include SCCM or MECM.

Windows Backup DPM.

SQL experience.

Microsoft Deployment Tool MDT.