Systems Administrator
Job Location: Onsite Arlington VA
Job Type: Full time 10% travel
Salary Target: $160000 - $170000
Minimum Clearance: US Citizen holding an active Top Secret/SCI clearance
Xenith Solutions is a small mission-focused business serving Federal / Civilian Defense and Intelligence organizations with superior service. If you want to be a part of a rapidly growing business with an exceptional culture then you want to be a part of the Xenith Solutions family.
Xenith Solutions is seeking a Systems Administrator to join our team in support of a government contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) focused on the Joint Fires Network (JFN).
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled Systems Administrator to join our team and provide essential development and support to strategic initiatives.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years system administration experience (server and desktop security implementation and management and software development IT infrastructure setup and management)
- Knowledge of U.S. Government computers networks and security
- Past experience administering server-side technology and networked computing systems.
- Ability to prioritize a wide range of workloads with critical deadlines.
Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:
- 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 governments cyber security program implementation plan.
- Maintain facility video distribution system and displays.
- All other tasks and duties as assigned
- Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Patient and professional demeanor with a can-do attitude.
- Familiarity with DNS / DHCP / Kickstart / LDAP / Kubernetes / Red Hat 7&8 / Windows 10 / ACAS / Rancher / Grafana / Cloud Security Gateway
- Maintain and create system documentation.
- Willingness to learn new technologies.
- 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
- Cybersecurity Management Certification (CISSP CISM) Cybersecurity IAT-2 level Technical Certification (Security GSEC etc.)
- Risk Management Framework (RMF) accreditation experience
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Systems AdministratorJob Location: Onsite Arlington VAJob Type: Full time 10% travelSalary Target: $160000 - $170000Minimum Clearance: US Citizen holding an active Top Secret/SCI clearanceXenith Solutions is a small mission-focused business serving Federal / Civilian Defense and Intelligence organi...
Systems Administrator
Job Location: Onsite Arlington VA
Job Type: Full time 10% travel
Salary Target: $160000 - $170000
Minimum Clearance: US Citizen holding an active Top Secret/SCI clearance
Xenith Solutions is a small mission-focused business serving Federal / Civilian Defense and Intelligence organizations with superior service. If you want to be a part of a rapidly growing business with an exceptional culture then you want to be a part of the Xenith Solutions family.
Xenith Solutions is seeking a Systems Administrator to join our team in support of a government contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) focused on the Joint Fires Network (JFN).
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled Systems Administrator to join our team and provide essential development and support to strategic initiatives.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years system administration experience (server and desktop security implementation and management and software development IT infrastructure setup and management)
- Knowledge of U.S. Government computers networks and security
- Past experience administering server-side technology and networked computing systems.
- Ability to prioritize a wide range of workloads with critical deadlines.
Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:
- 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 governments cyber security program implementation plan.
- Maintain facility video distribution system and displays.
- All other tasks and duties as assigned
- Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Patient and professional demeanor with a can-do attitude.
- Familiarity with DNS / DHCP / Kickstart / LDAP / Kubernetes / Red Hat 7&8 / Windows 10 / ACAS / Rancher / Grafana / Cloud Security Gateway
- Maintain and create system documentation.
- Willingness to learn new technologies.
- 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
- Cybersecurity Management Certification (CISSP CISM) Cybersecurity IAT-2 level Technical Certification (Security GSEC etc.)
- Risk Management Framework (RMF) accreditation experience
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
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