Strategic ASI is Hiring a System Administrator Level II with Security Clearance Near Columbia, MD
Clearance Required: TS/SCI with FSP Poly Our client is seeking a System Administrator Level 2 (SA2) to provide Cross Domain Service (CDS) Solutions to over 40 system domains at the unclassified, secret, and top secret levels. Great opportunity to serve the Nation! Duties, Responsibilities, and Tasks: * Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of Information Technology (IT) systems. * Manage IT system infrastructure and any processes related to these systems. * Provide support to IT systems including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for all of the client/server/storage/network devices, mobile devices, etc. * Provide Tier 1 (Help Desk) and Tier 2 (Escalation) problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems. * Provide support for the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers. * Provide support for the dispatch system and hardware problems and remains involved in the resolution process. * Configure and manage UNIX and Windows (or other applicable) operating systems and installs/loads operating system software, troubleshoots, maintains integrity and configures network components along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance. * Provide Tier 1 (Help Desk) problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems. * Manage the daily activities of configuration and operation of IT systems. * Provide assistance to users in accessing and using IT systems. * Optimize system operations and resource utilization, and perform system capacity analysis and planning. * Provide in-depth experience in trouble-shooting IT systems. * Provide detailed analysis and feedback to agency management and internal customers for escalated tickets. * Provide support for the dispatch system and hardware problems and remains involved in the resolution process. Qualifications: * Citizenship Due to the nature of this position and the information employees will be required to access, U.S. Citizenship is required. * Clearance TS/SCI with Polygraph. * Education * Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required. * Twelve (12) years of additional SA experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree. * Experience * Twelve (12) years experience as a SA in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. * Ten (10) years experience in the design, plan, installation, configuration, and sustainment of a Red Hat Linux (RHEL) environment. * Ten (10) years experience in the creation of automation scripts for configuration, backup, and restoration using well know scripting languages (for example bash/Perl). * Three (3) years experience in implementing OS level clustering. * Five (5) years experience performing Puppet system administration. * Five (5) years experience installing software from YUM repositories, RPM Files, tar-balls, or source code. * Ten (10) years experience in researching, acquiring, and applying IAVA patches. * Eight (8) years experience in using Unix/Linux command line. * Five (5) years experience with VMWare architecture, Installation and configuration. Experience with facilitating failover with VMotion, VMWare template library, and VMWare monitoring capability.