Senior Systems Administrator III - Generalist (Active TS / SCI eligible clearance required)

Riptide Technology is hiring a Senior Systems Administrator III - Generalist to support our government customer based in Bangor, WA.  This position is required to be onsite.
Overview: Under the guidance of the Principal Systems Administrator, the Senior Systems Administrator will provide O&M support – installation, configuration, securing and hardening, testing, validation, sustainment, upgrading, remediation, and decommissioning – as it relates to enterprise server-based solutions across the IT enterprise’s multi-platform (Microsoft, *nix, etc.) information systems varying in size and complexity (LAN, MAN, WAN, etc.). Existing server-based solutions include a variety of major technology vendors including, but not limited to, Citrix, Esri, McAfee, Microsoft, Red Hat, ServiceNow, and SolarWinds. Responsibilities: The Senior Systems Administrator III - Generalist supports the Information Technology (IT) Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Server team to provide enterprise-level, high-performance, highly available, server technology solutions (systems, applications, and services) as the customer’s Enterprise IT System, Applications, and Services catalogs.The Senior Systems Administrator also supports the mid-to-senior level internal escalation tier(s) for the Server O&M team providing advanced troubleshooting support and guidance to rapidly assess and remediate challenges in the Server System, Application, and Services arena that arise.The Senior Systems Administrator also produce and maintain documentation of the Server team’s solution system(s), sub-system(s), and component(s) deployed and in use in the customer’s IT Solutions portfolio, including as-built documentation, capacity/performance plans, processes and procedures, workflows, run books, and all other area of server system life-cycle planning.  

Required Qualifications/Experience:

•  Shall have 7 or more years of progressive and increasingly complex experience successfully providing O&M support of enterprise server operating systems (OSs) (Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, etc.) and server applications and services, such as Microsoft Active Directory (AD), Exchange, File Services, SQL Server, and SharePoint, etc. across multi-platform information systems varying in size and complexity (LAN, MAN, WAN, etc.)
• Shall have 5 or more years of personal and hands-on experience managing and administering a complete Microsoft AD Domain and Forest Functional Level (DFL/FFL) of Windows Server 2008 R2, or higher, to include, but not be limited to, Domain Controllers, Global Catalogs, LDAP/S, Domain Naming Services, and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). A strong understanding of the workings of AD is a must. Additional experience working with newer DFL/FFL levels (i.e., Windows Server 2012 or higher) is a plus.
• Shall have 5 or more years of experience operating and maintaining solutions in secure processing environments which must adhere to U.S. Government Information Assurance and Security standards such as the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Requirements Guides (SRGs) and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
• Demonstrated experience leveraging industry and vendor provided product documentation and best practices to successfully deploy, operate, and maintain a variety of enterprise-level Microsoft applications (Exchange, IIS, SharePoint, SQL, etc.) and services (DFS, KMS, PKI, etc.), as well as major third-party software solutions within a Page 47 production system, with focus on minimizing, and eliminating, if possible, negative enduser impact and/or downtime.
• Familiarity with leveraging scripted technologies, such as Microsoft PowerShell, PowerShell on Linux, Batch, VBScript, etc., to automate and orchestrate routine, as well as complex O&M duties and responsibilities, with a focus on maximizing efficiency, consistency, and minimizing the subsequent human error factor of related tasks. Having personal hands-on experience with authoring, testing, troubleshooting, and/or implementing such scripted technologies is a plus.
• Shall meet the Cyber IT/Cybersecurity Workforce (CSWF) System Administrator (451); Intermediate Level for SECNAV M-5239.2 compliance. (See Navy Cool WebSite.
• Strong background with Windows Server and Red Hat Linux is preferable.

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Security Clearance Requirements:
• The position requires U.S. Citizenship and an active DoD Top Secret with SCI clearance and the ability to obtain and maintain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph. 

Education and/or Certification(s) Requirements:

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