SAIC
Location
Arlington, VA | United States
Job description
Description
Systems Administrator
Work Location: DARPA, Arlington, VA
Duties and Responsibilities:
· Responsible for asset installation/configuration, operation and maintenance of systems hardware, software, and related infrastructure.
· Configure and manage operating systems (Windows and Linux), applications (commercial and government), networks (IPs, subnets, etc.), and network equipment (switches)
· Configure and manage DOD and IC standard distributed authentication services
· Build up systems from "bare metal" in alignment with accredited baselines
· Ensure that system hardware, operating systems, software systems and related procedures adhere to government policies.
· Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
· Perform daily backup operations.
· Perform regular file archival and purge, as necessary.
· Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.
· Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades and resource optimization, as required.
· Repair and recover from hardware or software failures for multiple sites.
· Establishes, documents, and monitor the government’s cyber security program implementation plan.
· Maintain facility video distribution system and displays.
· All other tasks and duties as assigned
Qualifications
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
·US citizenship and an a ctive TS/SCI security clearance required.
· Minimum 5 years’ system administration experience (server and desktop security implementation and management and software development IT infrastructure setup and management)
· Knowledge of U.S. Government computers, networks, and security
· Past experience administering server-side technology and networked computing systems.
· Ability to prioritize a wide range of workloads with critical deadlines.
· Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
· Patient and professional demeanor, with a can-do attitude.
· Familiarity with DNS / DHCP / Kickstart / LDAP / Kubernetes / Red Hat 7&8 / Windows 10 / ACAS / Rancher / Grafana / Cloud Security Gateway
· Maintain and create system documentation.
· Willingness to learn new technologies.
· Ability to surge hours worked through events
· Able to create simple scripts (i.e. powershell or bash)
· Ability to automate installation, configuration, and provisioning using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
· Ability to configure and manage operating systems (Windows and Linux), applications (commercial and government), networks (IPs, subnets, etc.), and network equipment (switches)
· Ability to configure and manage DOD and IC standard distributed authentication services
· Advantageous to have knowledge of DOD and IC network infrastructures
· Knowledge of Joint IO Range, Defense Research and Engineering Network, and other similar environments beneficial
· Cybersecurity Management Certification (CISSP, CISM), Cybersecurity IAT-2 level Technical Certification (Security+, GSEC, etc.)
· Risk Management Framework (RMF) accreditation experience
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