What are the responsibilities and job description for the System Administrator position at CyberX Info System?
Job Role: System Administrator
Job location: Huntsville, AL
Job duration: Full time
About the Role
Our client, a mission-focused technology organization, needs a senior Linux engineer to own the health and evolution of a mixed Linux, Windows and virtualized environment. You’ll be the go-to technical lead for server infrastructure, endpoint support and system design in a high-reliability setting.
What You’ll Do
• Own daily operations for servers and workstations: monitoring, alerting, fault resolution and performance tuning
• Build, configure and troubleshoot physical, virtual and cloud-hosted systems
• Architect platform and software layers that are secure, scalable and resilient
• Spot weak points in the environment and fix them before they become outages
• Plan and execute OS upgrades, software installs and patch cycles within change control guidelines
• Guide application teams through deployments, patching and continuous improvement efforts
• Partner with network, database, application and security teams, plus vendors and end users, to solve technical problems
• Select and manage tools and hardware that safeguard data integrity
• Run backup and archive schedules and manage media retention, including offsite rotation
• Author and maintain SOPs, build records, architecture diagrams and configuration baselines
• Perform recurring compliance checks on hardware and software against internal standards
• Define test plans and acceptance criteria for infrastructure changes
Must Haves
• 6 years in systems administration, infrastructure or deployment work
• Deep hands-on Linux/UNIX experience
• Experience with VMware or OpenShift
• Solid Windows infrastructure knowledge
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, IT, Systems Engineering or similar
• U.S. citizenship
• Ability to pass a Public Trust background investigation and a drug/alcohol screening
Nice to Haves
• RHEL expertise
• Ansible, Bash and PowerShell automation, including scripted data transfers between systems
• Enterprise storage arrays (SAN/NAS)
• Out-of-band server management (IPMI or similar)
• Software-defined networking
• CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines, infrastructure as code, Agile environments
• Red Hat or Security certification
• Background supporting government, aerospace or other real-time critical systems