Senior Systems Administrator - NISSC

Our NORAD Operations Group

Selected by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Strategic Warning and Surveillance Systems Division for Operations, Maintenance, and Sustainment (OM&S) of critical mission systems for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Complex (NCMC), we support the Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract II (NISSC II).

Since 2020, through the (ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract II (NISSC II), has provided:

·       Operations, maintenance, and Sustainment of current and legacy systems for the surveillance and cataloging of manmade objects in space.

·       Mitigation of orbital conflicts.

·       Threat warnings and control from airborne, land-based, and space-based systems for threat activities.

·       Operations and maintenance of classified communications.

·       Software development and integration.

NISSC II supports the classified communications and processing for Command and Control (C2) capability and legacy space C2 systems located at:

·       Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station (CMSFS), Colorado

·       Peterson Space Force Base (PSFB), Colorado

·       Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska

·       Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

·       Numerous sensor and forward operator sites around the world

Description of Duties:

The Senior Systems Administrator supports North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) on the Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract II (NISSC II). The candidate will:

As a Senior System Administrator with Kubernetes experience, you will be responsible for sustaining, implementing, and managing robust DevOps pipelines and Kubernetes infrastructure to support the development and deployment of software applications. Ensuring system reliability and optimizing application delivery in a containerized environment.

Install/configure and troubleshooting of Red Hat servers, Windows servers, NetApps, VMware vCenter, ESXi, Horizon, VDI’s, NetBackup, Oracle Databases 12c and Microsoft SQL. Develop and document technical processes and procedures. Make recommendations to purchase hardware, software, system components.

 Kubernetes Infrastructure:

·       Deploying, monitoring the applications in a Kubernetes environment

·       Configure and manage Kubernetes resources, including pods, services, deployments, and namespaces.

·       Container Infrastructure Management

·       Cluster and Resource Management

·       Troubleshooting and Support

·       Enhance Monitoring and Alert Systems

·       Collaboration and Design

·       Containerize applications using Docker and create Docker images for deployment.