What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Administration Team Lead - DoD Secret Clearance position at Aegis Aerospace, Inc.?
Position Title: Systems Administration Team Lead
Location: Vandenberg, AFB, CA
Relocation Assistance: None available at this time
Remote/Telework: No - This is an in-office position.
Clearance Type: DoD Secret
Shift: Day shift
Travel Required: Up to 10% of the time
Description of Duties:
The Junior Systems Administrator supports the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract.
Location: Vandenberg, AFB, CA
Relocation Assistance: None available at this time
Remote/Telework: No - This is an in-office position.
Clearance Type: DoD Secret
Shift: Day shift
Travel Required: Up to 10% of the time
Description of Duties:
The Junior Systems Administrator supports the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract.
Responsibilities:
- Perform system administration duties on Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) suite of applications.
- Support systems engineering, maintenance, and operations of cyber capabilities
- Assist in troubleshooting of hardware, software, and capability of the DCO suite of applications.
- Conduct functional and connectivity testing to ensure continuing operability.
- Comply with organization systems administration standard operating procedures.
- Maintain baseline system security according to organizational policies.
- Manage accounts, network rights, and access to systems and equipment.
- Manage system/server resources including performance, capacity, availability, serviceability, and recoverability.
- Monitor and maintain system/server configuration.
- Perform repairs on faulty system/server hardware.
- Troubleshoot hardware/software interface and interoperability problems.
- Install, update, and troubleshoot systems/servers.
- Patch network vulnerabilities to ensure information is safeguarded against outside parties.
The successful candidate will have:
- A positive attitude and willingness to expand knowledge and skill set
- Skill in correcting physical and technical problems that impact system/server performance.
- Skill in monitoring and optimizing system/server performance.
- Skill in recovering failed systems/servers.
- Skill in operating system administration.
- Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
- Knowledge of measures or indicators of system performance and availability.
- Knowledge of performance tuning tools and techniques.
- Knowledge of principles and methods for integrating system components.
- Knowledge of systems administration concepts.
- Knowledge of virtualization technologies and virtual machine development and maintenance.
- Knowledge of organizational information technology (IT) user security policies (e.g., account creation, password rules, access control).
- Knowledge of basic system administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques.
- Knowledge of national and international laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity principles.
- Knowledge of cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
- Knowledge of specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses.
- Knowledge of common network tools (e.g., ping, traceroute, nslookup).
- Knowledge of cloud computing service models Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS).
- Knowledge of cloud computing deployment models in private, public, and hybrid environments and the difference between on-premises and off-premises environments.
- Be willing to support troubleshooting for shift workers in a 24x7 operational environment and respond quickly to emergencies as needed.
- Be willing to support a rotating on-call schedule.
- Be able to multi-task and prioritize various projects and assignments in a dynamic work environment to meet scheduled/unscheduled customer requests.
Basic Requirements:
- Must have 2, or more, years of general (full-time) work experience
- May be reduced with completion of advanced education
- Must have 6 months, or more, of directly related experience
- Must have a DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification with Continuing Education (CE) - (CCNA-Security, CySA , GICSP, GSEC, Security CE, CND, SSCP)
- Must have, or obtain, an active DoD 8570.01-M CSSP
- Infrastructure Support certification with Continuing Education (CE)
- (CEH, CySA , GICSP, SSCP, CHFI, CFR, Cloud , CND)
- Must have an active DoD Secret Security Clearance
- Must be able to obtain an active DoD Top Secret Security Clearance
Desired Requirements:
- Have experience with Linux system administration in a DoD environment
- Have Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) experience
- Have experience with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is highly desirable.
- Have Server Management experience, including deployment, backups, snapshots
Compensation:
Salary Range: $80,000 - $105,000annually. Final compensation is based on experience, education, and directly relevant certifications.
Application Instructions:
Resumes must be submitted in month/year format to be considered. Candidates must be fully truthful in their application. Dishonesty or misrepresentation may result in disqualification. Only U.S. citizens with an active DoD Top Secret Security Clearance w/SCI eligibility will be considered.
About Aegis Aerospace
We are a woman-owned space and technology company headquartered in Houston, TX. Our primary objective is to support the Department of Defense and NASA in achieving their missions to defend the security of our country, reach new heights and to discover the unknown. We employ some of the brightest, most experienced engineering and technology experts in the U.S.
To learn more about Aegis Aerospace, visit our website at www.aegisaero.com
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veteran / Disability.
Salary : $80,000 - $105,000