Systems Administrator

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 active 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

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.