Administer and engineer physical and virtual infrastructure for NAVAIR, including servers, workstations, virtual machines, containers, networking, backups, software, and user access. Troubleshoot hardware and software, maintain documentation and disaster recovery plans, provide technical support, and participate in Agile planning. Secure and continuously monitor information systems according to DoD guidance, including RMF and STIG compliance activities.
Overview
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.
As our next Systems Adminsitrator for NAVAIR, you'll collaborate with talented professionals to create innovative, mission-critical solutions that empower naval aviation and defense operations. Your expertise will help shape cutting-edge systems, enhance national security, and drive technological advancement for our nation.
Responsibilities- Provide engineering solutions for various and unique problem sets and customers in a government software hosting facility.
- Deploy and maintain physical and virtual hardware infrastructure, to include virtual machines and containers.
- Perform routine maintenance and configuration changes to various physical and virtual hosts.
- Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of hardware and software issues on servers, workstations, and IT equipment.
- Maintain system backups and disaster recovery plans.
- Manage user accounts and permissions.
- Deploy and maintain software applications.
- Troubleshoot technical issues.
- Maintain documentation to include knowledge base, incident response actions, system configurations, and other information related to system administration.
- Provide technical support to customers, ranging from resolving technical issues to providing guidance and best-practices.
- Secure information systems and applications to current DoD guidance
- Maintain configuration and security posture of information systems through continuous monitoring and routine security events/reporting.
- Participate in project planning using Agile methodology.
- Provide networking support to on-premises infrastructure.
- Understanding and familiarity of Linux operating system and virtual networking.
- Active Secret with ability to obtain Top Secret (interim to start). Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Risk Management Framework (RMF) compliance experience preferred (example: scanning and Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) execution)
- CompTIA Sec+
- Windows or Linux OS certification
- ACAS Operator and Supervisor Course completion preferred (Certification must be within the 3 year active window)
- At least 5+ years of experience
Desired:
- Software familiarity:
- Veeam Backup
- Windows (10-11)
- Windows Server (2016-2022)
- Linux (Red Hat)
- VMWare (ESXi, VSphere, VCF, VSAN, NSX)
- Cisco (iOS and NX-OS)
- PDQ Deploy
- Atlassian
- Gitlab
- Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- ACAS (SecurityCenter, Nessus Scanner)
- STIGManager
- Evaluate-STIG
- Containers (Docker, Podman)
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