Job Requirements
Fort Meade, MD
Top Secret/SCI Full Scope Polygraph
Career Level not specified
$189,000 - $208,000
Job Description
Base salary is $189,000–$208,000, supported by an exceptionally strong retirement benefit. 401(k): 25% employer contribution, vested immediately ($47,000–$52,000 per year).
Total compensation: $236,000–$260,000 (base salary plus employer 401(k) contributions)
Our client is seeking a Sr. System Administrator to manage and support the enterprise IT systems behind a high priority mission program, including the Cisco routing and switching infrastructure they depend on. This administrator takes on the toughest problems in the escalation queue, supports system and mission architecture design, and gives detailed feedback to agency management and internal customers.
Key responsibilities
Systems operations:
- Implement, troubleshoot, and maintain IT systems, and manage their daily configuration and operation.
- Monitor and resolve problems across client, server, storage, network, and mobile devices.
- Configure and manage UNIX, Windows, and other operating systems, including installing and loading OS software.
- Configure network components, maintain their integrity, and support installation and upkeep of Cisco routers and switches.
- Deploy operating system enhancements that improve reliability and performance.
- Tune system operations and resource use, and perform capacity analysis and planning.
User support and escalation:
- Resolve Tier 1 (help desk) and Tier 2 (escalation) issues, and help users access and use IT systems.
- Apply deep troubleshooting experience to complex IT problems.
- Analyze and fix complex issues involving server hardware, applications, and software integration.
- Coordinate dispatch for hardware problems and stay engaged through resolution.
- Escalate issues and give agency management and internal customers detailed analysis and status on
escalated tickets.
Architecture:
- Support the design of systems, mission architecture, and associated hardware.
- Apply a working understanding of system administration dependencies within a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate is a veteran administrator who is equally comfortable at the command line, in the equipment room, and briefing leadership on a complex outage.
Required:
- 15+ years as a system administrator on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field. Five additional years of system administration experience may substitute for the degree.
- Skills and experience to support installation and maintenance of Cisco routers and switches for enterprise
systems.
- TS/SCI with a current Full Scope Polygraph at the time of application.
Compensation and benefits:
Base salary is $189,000–$208,000, supported by an exceptionally strong retirement benefit. 401(k): 25% employer contribution, vested immediately ($47,000–$52,000 per year).
Total compensation: $236,000–$260,000 (base salary plus employer 401(k) contributions)
Total compensation: $236,000–$260,000 (base salary plus employer 401(k) contributions)
Our client is seeking a Sr. System Administrator to manage and support the enterprise IT systems behind a high priority mission program, including the Cisco routing and switching infrastructure they depend on. This administrator takes on the toughest problems in the escalation queue, supports system and mission architecture design, and gives detailed feedback to agency management and internal customers.
Key responsibilities
Systems operations:
- Implement, troubleshoot, and maintain IT systems, and manage their daily configuration and operation.
- Monitor and resolve problems across client, server, storage, network, and mobile devices.
- Configure and manage UNIX, Windows, and other operating systems, including installing and loading OS software.
- Configure network components, maintain their integrity, and support installation and upkeep of Cisco routers and switches.
- Deploy operating system enhancements that improve reliability and performance.
- Tune system operations and resource use, and perform capacity analysis and planning.
User support and escalation:
- Resolve Tier 1 (help desk) and Tier 2 (escalation) issues, and help users access and use IT systems.
- Apply deep troubleshooting experience to complex IT problems.
- Analyze and fix complex issues involving server hardware, applications, and software integration.
- Coordinate dispatch for hardware problems and stay engaged through resolution.
- Escalate issues and give agency management and internal customers detailed analysis and status on
escalated tickets.
Architecture:
- Support the design of systems, mission architecture, and associated hardware.
- Apply a working understanding of system administration dependencies within a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate is a veteran administrator who is equally comfortable at the command line, in the equipment room, and briefing leadership on a complex outage.
Required:
- 15+ years as a system administrator on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field. Five additional years of system administration experience may substitute for the degree.
- Skills and experience to support installation and maintenance of Cisco routers and switches for enterprise
systems.
- TS/SCI with a current Full Scope Polygraph at the time of application.
Compensation and benefits:
Base salary is $189,000–$208,000, supported by an exceptionally strong retirement benefit. 401(k): 25% employer contribution, vested immediately ($47,000–$52,000 per year).
Total compensation: $236,000–$260,000 (base salary plus employer 401(k) contributions)
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