System Administrator at New Paradigm Consulting Incorporated

Job Title: System Administrator

Location: 5520 Research Park Dr, Catonsville, MD 21228

Job Description:

New Paradigm Consulting is seeking a professional IT Systems Administrator to provide comprehensive support and maintenance for a stable IT infrastructure across multiple SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) environments. The role involves managing telecommunications circuits, networking equipment, servers, Active Directory enterprise, applications, and desktop support. The primary objective is to ensure secure and stable system operations, smooth information flow, and proper functioning of endpoints throughout the organization's operations. As part of a collaborative team, the IT Systems Administrator will triage IT issues, ensure compliance, and deploy new systems.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to daily operations by assisting in the triage of IT-related issues specific to closed area support.
• Resolve and provide prescriptive solutions to meet the organization's IT needs.
• Actively participate in implementing hardware and software, including building, upgrading, patching, and migrating network utilities, servers, systems, and applications within the SCIF.
• Monitor and schedule maintenance and backups for server infrastructure, both virtual and bare metal, within the SCIF.
• Contribute to planning and participating in customer surge support efforts.
• Provide day-to-day system administrator support of existing systems
• Gather, assess, and validate customer requirements
• Develop/engineer a solution to fit customer requirements and infrastructure capacities
• Implement virtual machines based on customer requirements
• Coordinate outages with the customer and help desk when patching servers operating systems or performing hardware maintenance
• Participate in customer meetings, present briefings, and provide weekly status reports to customer management
• Maintain knowledge of current technology
• Be available for 24/7 call-ins OR be able to work shifts

Job Qualifications:

• Clearance: TS/SCI Clearance.
• Education: Bachelors degree in a computer, engineering or system science discipline from an accredited college or university and seven (7) years of progressive, relevant experience, or Ten (10) years relevant experience
• Industry certifications that support IT Management like: CCNA, MCSE, CISSP, CompTIA A+, Network +, Security +
• Experience with Linux including administration, hardening, and maintenance. 

Skills:

• Highly motivated and self-directed
• Passion for solving complex problems
• Ability to prioritize tasks based on risk and schedule
• Track record of meeting deadlines
• Ability to work well under pressure and make sound decisions in uncertain situations
• Strong people leadership skills
• Ability to contribute and collaborate within an IT support team
• Accountable and requires minimal direction and supervision
• Openness to new ideas and innovation
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Directory Domain Controllers
• Virtualization (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V)
• Cisco network switches and firewalls
• Systems infrastructure support for servers (both bare-metal and virtualized)
• Network gear configuration and support
• Security appliances/firewalls configuration and support
• Systems maintenance, tuning, backup, and recovery modeling and planning
• System hardening requirements, testing, and certification for secure information systems
• Security+ certification
• CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) certification
• Security configurations across multiple operating systems in various environments One of the following DoD approved certifications is necessary to meet the category/level IAT-2 (DoD 8570) requirement for this position: Security+, GSEC, SSCP, CCNA-Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), CASP, GCIH, or GCED.

Benefits:

• Medical Ins
• Dental Insurance
• Vision
• 401(k)
• Life Insurance

Compensation Range: $60,000 - $100,000

Remote Work Allowed: No

Employment Type: Full-Time

Why Work at This Company? New company with great growth opportunities!

Hiring Company Description:

New Paradigm Consulting, Incorporated (NPCI) is an IT company specializing in Cybersecurity, Data Transformation, and Business & Management Consulting providing services and solutions to the Intelligence Community (IC) and Commercial Vendors.

Screening Questions:

• Question 1 – Licenses/Certifications
  • Do you have the following: TS/SCI w/ CI or Full-Scope Polygraph?
• Question 2 – Education
  • Have you completed the following level of education: Bachelor’s Degree?