Summary

Senior Systems Administrator

Alexandria, VA

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!

Chenega IT Enterprise Services (CITES) offers forward-thinking technology solutions to federal agencies and the DoD. Formed in 2016 to serve federal customers CONUS, CITES has grown quickly into a best practices leader for the modern federal enterprise.

CITES is in search of a cleared and experienced Senior Systems Administrator to join a diverse, mission-oriented team supporting the Army Geospatial enterprise in providing timely, accurate, and relevant geospatial information, capabilities, and domain expertise for unified land operations.

Responsibilities

• Install, support, and maintain hardware and software infrastructure according to best practices, industry standards, and/or customer/organizational requirements, including routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and storage systems.
• Diagnose problems and solve issues, often under a time constraint.
• Implement the necessary controls and procedures to protect information systems assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure, or destruction.
• Provide network and host-based security, incident response, and log collection and analysis.
• Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
• Assist in the development of guidelines and procedures for administration and security best practices.
• Monitor resource usage, anticipate problems, and suggest solutions.
• Manage production systems and provide higher-level technical support (Tier II, III) to clients when needed.
• Work closely with colleagues to meet team goals and improve processes and practices.
• Create and maintain documentation of the systems.
• Manage hypervisors in and VMware environment, including configuration, deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
• Provide software and hardware support to the development team.
• SQL server database administration required, including, installation, configuration, maintenance, backup, and security.
• Set up an offsite disaster recovery environment.
• Basic support for SAN (Storage Area Network) and NAS (Network-Attached Storage) devices.
• Review system and security logs and report to the team regarding incidents or potential threats to the network environment, users, or infrastructure.
• Monitor the production environment and report any code/security-related issues to the development team.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (MIS, CIS, etc.) and 4+ years of experience in the Information Technology field OR
• BA or BS degree in Information Technology or similar desirable if under 8 years of experience.
• High school diploma or GED and 8+ years of experience in the Information Technology field
• DoDD 8140/8570.01-M Baseline IA at IAT II or better: CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSE, Security+ CE or SSCP
• Active TS/SCI clearance

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Outgoing team player and self-motivated individual with excellent communication skills with the ability and desire to interact with all users and work closely with other technical staff or independently
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task effectively under pressure with the ability to frequently re-assess priorities for multiple tasks or projects
• Strong time management and resource management capabilities
• Operation experience with NIPR, SIPR, JWICS, DDTE, DREN, SDREN, AWS, AWS GovCloud (US), milCloud, SC2S, and/or C2S desired
• Build, operate, and maintain Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019, RHEL, and CentOS 6, 7 servers desired
• Manage Active Directory, configure and manage Windows Network Policy Server (Dot1X, RADIUS), configure Group Policy Objects (GPO), apply and/or assess the operating system, web server, and web application STIGs and SRGs desired
• Windows Server, RHEL, CentOS, and understanding/experience with the application of DISA IASE STIGs and SRGs and DoD, Army, and IC policies and procedures desired
• IIS, Splunk, BMC, Ivanti, SolarWinds, ArcGIS, Backup Exec, HBSS desired
• Experience with NetApp, Quantum, and/or Nimble storage products and cloud storage, like AWS EBS, EFS, S3, S3 IA, and Glacier desired
• Install, configure, and manage, and maintain VMware vSphere 6.x, ESXi, vCenter.
• Ability to apply and/or assess applicable STIGs and SRGs desired
• Configure and manage MS SQL and PostgreSQL databases and apply and/or assess database STIGs or SRG desired
• Experience with disaster recovery configurations desired
• Knowledgeable in application transport and network infrastructure protocols (SSL/TLS, DNS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, HTTP/S, SMTP, and Microsoft AD), and possess an understanding of how to support these applications/protocols desired
• Experience with systems and data encryption desired
• Experienced with fail-over clusters, load balancing, and data replication technologies desired
• Familiarity with configuring both CISCO and Brocade Fibre Channel switches desired

Additional Experience :

• Windows Server - Configuration and Management – currently migrating from 2016 to 2019 - Server-side NOT workstation support
• STIGs and SRGs, apply and access
• Linux is nice to have but Windows is a priority to have
• VMware is preferred
• Army/DoD, IC policies and procedures is preferred
• NetApp automatic interview is highly preferred
• ArcGIS is a bonus
• MS SQL Server is a bonus
• PowerShell is a bonus
• AWS experience is a bonus

How you’ll grow

At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn.

We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.

Benefits

At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.

Learn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you.

Chenega MIOS’s culture

Our positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives.

Corporate citizenship

Chenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.

Learn more about Chenega’s impact on the world.

Chenega MIOS News- https://chenegamios.com/news/

Tips from your Talent Acquisition team

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