Systems Administrator Senior (Storage) – TS/SCI Required
Transform technology into an opportunity as a Systems Administrator Senior with Apex Systems. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the most essential systems. At Apex, you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving agencies' operations.
At Apex, people are our differentiator. As a Systems Administrator Senior, you will help ensure that today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Systems Administrator Senior joining our team to support the US Army.
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How a Systems Administrator Senior Will Make an Impact:
- Operate and sustain the daily operational use of a VMware infrastructure, including updating, testing, and deploying vSphere and vCenter product releases.
- Manage and administer physical and virtual servers, primarily Windows and Linux servers.
- Support and manage server virtualization, provisioning, physical server maintenance, security compliance, and daily operations.
- Manage VMware vSphere, emphasizing automation and enterprise storage and backup system administration, installation, and ongoing maintenance.
- Maintain server lifecycle - provisioning, maintenance, and decommissioning of hardware.
- Maintain the virtualized server environment via configuration, implementation, management, and support activities.
- Monitor the virtual server infrastructure environment’s health status, service performance, and utilization.
- Implement and maintain continuous compliance with information security policies and technical standards, report, and remediation of non-compliances.
- Maintain security baseline compliance via configuration, implementation, and remediation activities.
- Apply regular security patches and software updates.
- Troubleshoot, maintain integrity, 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.
- Perform systems administration of desktop and server systems connected to local and wide area networks. Responsibilities include account monitoring, security, OS installation, and other local area system administration functions.
- Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of IT systems.
- Manage IT system infrastructure and any processes related to these systems.
- Provide installation and operational support of voice and data communications hardware and software systems.
- Perform configuration of operating system and security patches for host and distributed systems and implement incident response procedures during network or host security breaches.
- Review customer requirements and make recommendations for changes to existing technical architecture.
- Support IT systems, including day-to-day operations, monitoring, and problem resolution for all client/server/storage/network devices, mobile devices, etc.
- Support, administer, and maintain enterprise data center systems comprised of physical and virtual servers, storage, backups, monitoring, automation, and eventually Hybrid Cloud management.
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree with 12 years of experience or Master’s with ten years of experience.
- Required Skillset:
- Ability to provide in-depth experience in troubleshooting IT systems.
- Ability to provide detailed analysis and feedback to agency management and internal customers for escalated tickets.
- Security Clearance Level: TS/SCI.
- Required Certification(s):
- DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II/8140 Computing Environment (CE) Certification as determined by the Program Manager is required before support on contract.
- IAT II 8570/8140 Baseline Certification Security+ or equivalent.
- Computing Env: MSCA 2016, Microsoft Azure Administrator, or equivalent (Must obtain the full AZ104 Microsoft Azure Administrator within 180 days from start date).
- Location: On Customer Site.
- Additional Requirements:
- Candidates must be willing and able to attain a CI Polygraph for certain positions as determined by the contract.
- The position may require lifting objects (e.g., IT Hardware), reaching/bending/kneeling (e.g., plugging in cables), and other moderately strenuous activities.
- Travel may be required to support the mission.