Senior Systems Sustainment Administrator

About the role

SAIC is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as a Senior Systems Administrator with experience in US Navy IT networks to support the sustained operation and maintenance of a newly deployed US Navy enterprise transport network, ensuring 24/7/365 availability and reliability. The position will support end-to-end network, system, and element visibility; facilitate rapid operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning to maintaining the operational integrity of a mission-critical network, requiring both technical expertise and a commitment to excellence in service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide Tier 2 level engineering operations support to quickly identify, triage, and address outages, analyzing symptoms and potential root causes to implement effective resolutions or escalate to Tier 3/Tier 4 support as required.
• Utilize advanced monitoring tools and processes to oversee network infrastructure, monitor the performance and availability of managed services and systems across multiple exchange points, and ensure optimal performance.
• Perform day to day maintenance, fixes, configuration corrections, software and hardware updates, and deployments.
• Adhere to system and operational reporting obligations.
• Operate and maintain the privileged access solutions.
• Maintain continuous verification of failover processes and disaster recovery procedures.
• Operate and maintain hardware upgrade process and procedures.
• Update and maintain any software builds applicable to deployed equipment.
• Operate and maintain asset management processes and procedures.
• Operate and maintain configuration management.
• Enact change management for the solution.
• Operate and maintain existing incident management processes.
• Keep firmware, software updates and patches up to date for equipment.

Qualifications

Required Education: Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related discipline and five (5) years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture and supporting a large network infrastructure. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

Required Security Clearance: Secret Clearance required.

Required Skills

• Linux and Windows Server deployment and administration
• Active Directory and Group Policy
• DNS
• Python, BASH, Powershell, or similar
• Ansible (Tower), Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Containerization, Jenkins, or similar
• Deploying VMs within VMWare vSphere
• Strong working knowledge with Routers, Switches, Firewalls, and Virtual Private Network devices
• Good understanding of TCP/IP in regards to routing and subnetting
• Windows Server / Active Directory

Preferred Qualifications

• Nautobot
• RHEL Satellite
• InfoBlox DDI
• RedHat Linux 8
• CompTia Linux+ (certification)
• RedHat Linux (certification)
• Microsoft Certified Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate (certification)

Certifications

IAT Level II required (Sec+ and OS Certification).

Schedule & Work Environment

• Full-time position working 7AM – 3PM, 5 days per week to include weekends
• Rotating on-call requirement
• Work performed at the Navy customer's site in Suffolk, VA
• Travel up to 25% may be required
• Able to work shifts to cover a 24x7 operational environment

Pay

Target salary range $80,001 - $120,000.