Senior System Administrator with Security Clearance

About the role

The Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) supports approximately 3500 internal and external users across PAE Headquarters (HQ), 3 Capability Program Executive (CPE) Offices, and external Army, Joint Forces, and foreign countries with cooperative agreements. The mission is to research, design, test, implement, and maintain automated information systems and technical architectures that comply with DoD, Army, and higher headquarters directives.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive IMA and cybersecurity services to support systems and operations.
• Achieve operational efficiency, decision-making, and mission effectiveness through the adoption and integration of advanced digital technologies, processes, and practices.
• Manage and optimize information use for decision-making, streamline operations, and improve overall business performance.
• Administer and maintain systems across multiple separate networks, including ESXi hosts, VMs/appliances, RedHat OpenShift, and VDI desktops.
• Support server and network infrastructure, including hardware/software administration and 24/7 availability for highly secure systems.
• Establish and sustain virtual infrastructure, analyze/system design, and support system-level applications, file systems, and restricted shell access menus.
• Install, troubleshoot, maintain, back up, update, and support hardware systems.
• Manage backup and recovery for enterprise data, including storage, archiving, backup, recovery procedures, test validation, and coordination with the CIO and team leads.
• Work with tools such as Linux NFS, Windows SMB, Enterprise SAN, Cohesity, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, VMware Replication, vSAN, vProxy, DD Boost, NDMP, REST APIs, S3-compatible object storage, VMware vCenter/vSphere, and SQL Server application-aware backup agents.
• Coordinate and support patch/vulnerability management and cybersecurity, including DISA-approved cybersecurity scanning tools, IAVM reporting, STIGs, and vulnerability remediation.
• Ensure compliance with DoD 8140 / Army cybersecurity standards.
• Document and support system administration standards and documentation, aligning with CDRL A013 deliverables.

Requirements

• Experience with systems administration and maintenance across multiple separate networks, including ESXi hosts, VMs/appliances, RedHat OpenShift, and VDI desktops.
• Server and network infrastructure administration, including hardware/software administration and support for highly secure and available systems on a 24/7 basis.
• Virtual infrastructure sustainment, including establishing and sustaining virtual infrastructure, system analysis/design, and support for system-level applications, file systems, and restricted shell access menus.
• Hardware installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, backups, updates, and system support.
• Backup and recovery management for enterprise data, including storage, archiving, backup, recovery procedures, test validation, and coordination with the CIO and team leads.
• Linux NFS, Windows SMB, Enterprise SAN, Cohesity, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, VMware Replication, vSAN, vProxy, DD Boost, NDMP, REST APIs, S3-compatible object storage, VMware vCenter/vSphere, and SQL Server application-aware backup agents.
• Patch/vulnerability coordination and cybersecurity support, including review/evaluation/update of Army and industry patches, DISA-approved cybersecurity scanning tools, IAVM reporting, STIGs, and vulnerability remediation.
• Compliance with DoD 8140 / Army cybersecurity compliance awareness.

Qualifications

• Experience: 10+ years
• Education: Masters Degree