Systems Network Administrator

About the role

The Systems Network Administrator will support the FAA Test and Evaluation Lead and Technical Team at the William J. Hughes Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace in achieving technical milestones for the verification, validation, test, and deployment of modern IP-VCSs and Air-to-Ground Protocol Converters (APCs).

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on support to the FAA Test and Evaluation Lead and Technical Team.
• Plan, design, install, configure, and maintain laboratory IP networks and Linux systems, including virtual machine management and equipment monitoring using industry standard open-source software solutions/data/operating systems.
• Perform software configuration management and maintain software issue tracking repositories.
• Understand the current and emerging client space and apply practical and innovative concepts and methodologies to solve difficult problems.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information System Security, Software Engineering or similar discipline, plus 6-17 years of relevant hands-on experience.
• Experience planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining laboratory IP networks consisting of multiple VLANs, subnets, domains, and constructed with enterprise grade network switches and routers.
• Experience configuring managed routers and switches.
• Experience designing and deploying high availability networks, including integration of high availability protocols.
• Experience planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining laboratory Linux systems, including virtual machine management and equipment monitoring/Network Management System (NMS) solutions, constructed with industry standard open-source software solutions, data, and operating systems.
• Understanding of operating system structure and configuration.
• Experience using automation tools such as Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, etc.
• Experience planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining organization software issue tracking and software repository solutions.
• Strong software configuration management skills to ensure infrastructure configuration is reliably tracked and reproducible.
• Understanding of systems development lifecycles.
• Understanding of Information System Security practices and methodologies.
• Ability to prepare briefings to communicate and validate platform/Infrastructure features.
• Ability to work independently, collaboratively, and under consultative direction with cross-functional teams comprised of FAA staff, vendors, and contractor teams in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to evolving technical requirements.
• Ability to work remotely and onsite at the William J. Hughes Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace in New Jersey and to participate in on-call rotation and after-hours support as needed.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizen or Green Card Permanent Resident (3+ years U.S. Residency)
• Ability to obtain FAA Public Trust.

Pay

USD $71,800.00 - USD $112,150.00 /Yr.

Schedule

Remote/hybrid status is subject to change based on Noblis and/or government requirements.