Infrastructure System Administrator

SAIC is seeking an experienced Systems Administrator to join our Technical Engineering and Design Department in support of our United States Air Force customer. We have positions available in San Diego and Honolulu.

• Responsible for asset installation/configuration, operation and maintenance of systems hardware, software and related infrastructure.
• Configure and manage operating systems (Windows and Linux), applications (commercial and government), networks (IPs, subnets, etc.), and network equipment (switches).
• Configure and manage DOD and IC standard distributed authentication services.
• Build up systems from "bare metal" in alignment with accredited baselines.
• Ensure that system hardware, operating systems, software systems and related procedures adhere to government policies.
• Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
• Perform daily backup operations.
• Perform regular file archival and purge, as necessary.
• Create, change and delete user accounts per request.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades and resource optimization, as required.
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures for multiple sites.
• Establishes, documents, and monitor the government’s cyber security program implementation plan.
• Maintain facility video distribution system and displays.
• Other tasks and duties as assigned.
• Contribute technical content and tutorials to product documentation.
• Familiarity with distributed systems like Hadoop, HBase/Accumulo, Spark and Kafka.
• Experience with Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Powershell, and Python tools.
  

• 5+ years of experience with implementation and understanding of Engineering principles in a professional environment.
• Experience maintaining, configuring, operating and troubleshooting complex electronic computer interface systems and network equipment.
• Knowledge of U.S. Government computers, networks, and security.
• Past experience administering server-side technology and networked computing systems.
• Familiarity with DNS / DHCP / Kickstart / LDAP / Kubernetes / Red Hat 7&8 / Windows 10 / ACAS / Rancher / Grafana / Cloud Security Gateway.
• Maintain and create system documentation.
• Ability to surge hours worked through events.
• Able to create simple scripts (i.e. powershell or bash).
• Ability to automate installation, configuration, and provisioning using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
• Ability to configure and manage operating systems (Windows and Linux), applications (commercial and government), networks (IPs, subnets, etc.), and network equipment (switches).
• Ability to configure and manage DOD and IC standard distributed authentication services.
• Advantageous to have knowledge of DOD and IC network infrastructures.
• Knowledge of Joint IO Range, Defense Research and Engineering Network, and other similar environments beneficial.