Systems Administrator - teKnoluxion

Location: Doral, FL

Security Clearance Required:Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

Required Certification: Must have Security+ certification or DoD 8570 Level II equivalent within 90 days of hire

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 Systems Administrator 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:

• Performs systems design, development, and integration in a Windows and Unix environment.
• Performs continual maintenance and provides highly complex solutions for security, backup and redundancy problems.
• Provide engineering support to IT systems including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for all of the client server and network devices.
• Provide engineering support for the systems administrator for systems issues that have been escalated and communicate status to agency management
• Isolate, troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software problems involving the applications, the operating system, the hardware, the communications infrastructure, or any combination therefore
• Responsible for infrastructure including design, installing, configuring, testing and maintaining integrity of operating systems and configure network components along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance
• Integrate new technologies into new and existing systems including the transition and migration of corporate systems.
• Assist with achieving optimum performance and availability standards through implementing appropriate technical solutions.
• Attend meetings weekly and provide status reports.
• Resolve a wide range of system issues, troubleshooting software, hardware, diagnosis of network issues, and addressing escalated trouble tickets and service tasks.
• Attend Authorized Outage, Firewall Change Request, and Root Cause Analysis Boards as required
• Create and follow procedures to maintain and manage multiple linked databases including security, data safety and integrity, disaster recovery, and bulk data import/exports.
• Conduct routine and emergency maintenance of assigned data center equipment
• Communicate/coordinate scheduled preventive maintenance windows with potentially impacted customers
• Collaborate and contribute to the development, engineering and testing of backup and recovery plans
• Participate in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation
• Ensure systems are secure to STIG guidelines by utilizing tools such as Retina and HBSS
• Maintain operational, configuration, and other standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Verify system availability with existing Enterprise tools
• Create and modify scripts in multiple disciplines on Windows, Linux, and Solaris Systems
• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution

Clearance Required: Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

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
• 10+ years of relevant experience

Required Certification: Must have Security+ certification or DoD 8570 Level II equivalent within 90 days of hire

Required Skills:

• UNIX, Windows, and/or Storage administration
• Experience working with trouble reporting and tracking systems such as Service+
• Ability to respond to after hour calls “provide on-call support"
• Ability to travel 0-20% to local area sites as well as other locations with similar architecture/footprint.

• Strong documentation skills, experience work with MS office products especially Excel, Outlook, and Word.

• Strong customer support skills providing support to end users.

• Must have a valid US passport

• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

• Experience in the imagery intelligence domain a plus
• 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
  
• 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.