SMX is looking for a highly motivated Senior Systems Administrator with demonstrated experience to support the development phase of a project relative to software supporting aircraft and weapons systems. This role is onsite at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in southern Maryland.

As the Senior Systems Administrator, you will join a team of highly driven, supportive, and skilled professionals engaged in supporting across the NAVAIR community. 

The Senior Systems Administrator will:

• Provide engineering solutions for various and unique problem sets and customers in a government software hosting facility.
• Deploy and maintain physical and virtual hardware infrastructure, to include virtual machines and containers.
• Perform routine maintenance and configuration changes to various physical and virtual hosts.
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of hardware and software issues on servers, workstations, and IT equipment.
• Maintain system backups and disaster recovery plans.
• Manage user accounts and permissions.
• Deploy and maintain software applications.
• Troubleshoot technical issues.
• Maintain documentation to include knowledge base, incident response actions, system configurations, and other information related to system administration.
• Provide technical support to customers, ranging from resolving technical issues to providing guidance and best-practices.
• Secure information systems and applications to current DoD guidance
• Maintain configuration and security posture of information systems through continuous monitoring and routine security events/reporting.
• Participate in project planning using Agile methodology.
• Provide networking support to on-premises infrastructure.
• Understanding and familiarity of Linux operating system and virtual networking.

Required Skills and Experience: 

• Clearance required: Secret
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline
• 10 years of systems administration experience, to include deployment, configuration, and support for the following:
  • VMware/vSphere Enterprise (significant experience required)
  • Cisco switches (significant experience required)
  • SAN
  • Windows Server
• Networking experience
• Experience with Linux OS
• Understanding of Agile methodology 

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