Sr Systems Administrator (Day Shift) - teKnoluxion

Location: Springfield, VA

Security Clearance Required: TS (SCI eligibility) **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

Certification: A security + at minimum is required to satisfy DOD 8140 compliance

Shift Hours: Sundays- Wednesdays (alt) (5:30AM - 5:30PM)

teKnoluxion provides the Defense and Intelligence Communities technical experts in the fields of Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Operations, and Cloud Services Management & Consulting.  Our goal is not to simply support efforts, but to ignite a technology revolution, bridging the growing technology gap between the Government and commercial space. 

Are you ready to test your abilities as a Sr Systems Administrator (Ops 24x7 Support) Day Shift and team member in a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment?  Would you like to make an immediate and direct impact in your job? Join a dedicated team supporting the UDS contract at NGA.

What you get to do every day:

• Manages the functionality and efficiency of a group of computers running on one or more operating systems.
• The Data Center operations technician is responsible for the operations, maintenance, and monitoring of data center operations and supporting infrastructure. This is a mid-level position into a 24/7 Data Center operations group.

• The Data Center operations technician actively provides tier 2+ network monitoring and systems administration & support of Data center Operation in support of critical CONUS and OCONUS operations. The Data Center Ops team is responsible for detailed operations documentation and reporting of events with follow through until resolution.   The team operates 24/7/365 and must follow operational procedures and guidelines established by leadership to include some knowledge of business structure and interdependencies between departmental applications.

• Conducts real-time, pro-active monitoring of all compute and local area networking resources within the data centers (including Virtual Infrastructure, data center LAN, virtual servers, Storage solutions, databases) across multiple sites.

• Identify, analyze, responds, triages, and troubleshoot/resolve system alerts indicating issues with data center components.

• Conducting hands-on administration of virtual machines, hosts, and devices via vCenter, remote desktop protocols, and other virtualized management interfaces. Administration consists of, but is not limited to: assessing all virtual resources, consoling into virtual machines, creating/deleting virtual snapshots, fully triaging virtual server issues, and restarting virtual machines.

• Support diagnoses and troubleshooting of problems/issues with the virtualization environment including Microsoft Windows and Linux O/S systems.

• Provide systems diagnostics and availability monitoring and reporting/escalation services

• Perform incident capture, verification, diagnostics and escalation

• Within established procedures, responds to end user requests for technical support and assistance.

• Provides first response for all associated, technical engineering lanes within the data center

• Manages, record and tracks compute configuration changes as approved by Configuration Change Control Boards

• Create and maintain standard operating procedures and operational reporting protocol for the purpose of communicating system and network health with upper management, government customers, mission partners, ASPs, and agency executives.

• Interact with vendors to coordinate the maintenance and replacement of hardware that effects high and critical systems and environments.

• Maintain extremely accurate, high level reporting of all issues

• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned.

What skills do you need?

Clearance:  Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

Shift Hours: Sundays- Wednesdays (alt) (5:30AM - 5:30PM)

Education/Experience:

• Requires Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
• 5-8 years of directly related experience in systems administration of preferably Windows and Linux OS systems.

Certification: A security + at minimum is required to satisfy DOD 8140 compliance

Required Skills:

• Direct technical experience in Virtualization administration, preferably VMWare.
• 5+ years of experience working in one or more of the following areas: Data center Operations, Network Ops Center Operations, Enterprise-level network monitoring and/or virtual infrastructure monitoring.
• 5+ year providing Operation and Sustainment support for the virtualization environment.

• Experience in the imagery intelligence domain a plus
• Ability to create and modify scripts in multiple disciplines on Windows, Linux, and Solaris systems
• Knowledge of the Customer's processes and procedures and of the Customer's production systems a plus
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Ability to function as a team member and independently
• Prefer skills in one or more of the following: Window Server, Red Hat, IRIX, Solaris, Sybase, Informix, SQL, and Imagery Production Chain
• General knowledge of database administration, network administration and possess network configuration management skills.
  
• Intelligence Community Experience preferred

• Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by teKnoluxion through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses
• You’ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community
• Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match and potential Profit Sharing, Universal Leave, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more!
• Compensation is unique to each candidate and compensation packages are based on education, experience, and other requirements.