System Administrator Iv - Vmware

Primary Location: Hampton Roads, VA

Must be a U.S Citizen

Security Clearance:Top Secret /SCI

This position is contingent on contract award.

Obsidian Solutions Group (OSG) is seeking an experienced and motivated Systems Administrator IV with VMWare experience to join our team. Supporting the Information Technology (IT) support services for Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC).

Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) has a stated Vision and Mission that is the foundation upon which all MARMC resources should direct their performance: Vision: “First in Maintaining Global Force Readiness.” Mission: “We Fix Ships.”

Specific Responsibilities

• Perform the planning and the coordination of installation, testing, operation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and administration of complex virtualized environment consisting of Microsoft Windows Server and RHEL Server Operating Systems.
• Plan and schedule the installation of new or modified hardware and operating systems and applications software.
• Manage accounts, network rights, and access to systems and equipment.
• Manage systems resources including performance, capacity, availability, serviceability, and recoverability, implementing security procedures and tools.
• Develop and document systems administration standard operating procedures.
• Resolve hardware/software interface and interoperability problems within the virtualized environment.
• Ensuring Systems availability, functionality, integrity, and efficiency.
• Maintain systems configuration.
• Manage the installation and integration of systems fixes, updates, and enhancement; and/or ensuring the rigorous application of information security/information assurance policies, principals, and practices in the delivery of systems administration services.
• Implement DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) across a Windows environment.
• Isolate and resolve complex software problems involving the application and the operating system.
• Perform system administration tasks such as user management (creation, support, and deletion of user accounts), software installation, server monitoring, server backup operations, operating system, and application troubleshooting, and computer security for all operating systems in use within the environment.
• Provide system administration services for all servers, storage area networks (SANs), and server hosted applications.
• Manage virtual environment; perform log analysis, error detection, fault correction, backups, and restores; perform startup and shutdown of the systems as required.
• Build, configure, patch, and upgrade servers, operating systems, and server applications as required and/or mandated by IAVA/IAVB following the STIG and industry best practices.
• Provide user identity management and authentication support which includes Active Directory management and monitoring, cryptographic logon enablement and
• support, and user account management in accordance with DISA STIGs and industry best practices.
• Add, delete, and modify user access to the network resources; manage account profiles, permissions, and access to resources; and create accounts. Monitor, disable, and remove inactive accounts as well as control permissions.
• Develop and implement plans as a continuous process for the integration of new server and client software and provide technical advice on new requirements.
• Perform system-level design and configuration of products to support virtualized environments including determination of hardware, operating system, platform specifications, and various systems engineering tasks and activities t are broad in scope.
• Maintain daily, weekly, and monthly scheduled backups/snapshots; restore data as required to support systems recovery due to hardware, software, or user error; verify and validate the integrity of the backups/snapshots.
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and provide updates quarterly or as tasked.

• Eight (8) years of server virtualization and administration experience.
• Minimum of four (4) years job-related experience in administering VMware products. Experience and mastery knowledge of vSAN, vCenter, and vSphere 6.x including advanced features such as vMotion, High Availability, REST APIs, and Integrated Containers.
• Experience and expert knowledge of UNIX-based operating systems and Windows Server Operating Systems including Active Directory, Group Policy Objects, DHCP and DNS.
• Master’s level degree in Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Systems.
• DoD 8570.1 IAT III - (CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH, CCSP)
• Operating System/Computing Environment (OS/CE) PAA and SAAR
• Self-motivated, possess strong analytical skills and be customer oriented.
• Clearly communicate ideas to others verbally and in writing.
• Experience in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
• Strong organizational and technical management skills and ability to perform detail-oriented assignments.

Physical Requirements and Work Environment

• Normal Office environment

Travel

• N/A

Company Description

Obsidian Solutions Group LLC (OSG) is a fast-growing professional services firm based in Fredericksburg, VA. We create value for our customers by delivering technology-enabled & mission-oriented technical solutions that solve complex problems, protecting people, information, and assets. Our core capabilities are in providing Enterprise IT, Intelligence Analysis, Production & Development and Knowledge-Based Professional Services Solutions that enable the customer’s mission. Obsidian Solutions Group LLC is a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business.

A career at Obsidian Solutions Group means you are able to put your expertise, credentials, and talents to great use working with customers in the DOD and Intelligence Community, while enjoying the excitement of working in a fast-growing organization committed to making a difference for our customers and in our community. Contribute independently and collaboratively alongside our amazing team of doers and thinkers. Obsidian Solutions Group is small enough to offer a family atmosphere yet large enough to deliver a highly competitive compensation package. We hire and retain the best in the industry, offering exceptional benefits that protect the well-being of our employees, their spouses and domestic partners, and their families.

Our corporate philosophy is centered on hiring and retaining employees with the requisite skills, professional experience, personal commitment, and ethical standards necessary to foster a culture of operational excellence necessary to surpass our customer’s expectations.

Disclaimer

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Obsidian Solutions Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, protected veteran status, and any other non-merit factor, or any other characteristic protected by law.