System Administrator, Senior

System Administrator, Senior

The Opportunity:

Your combination of people skills and system administrator expertise makes you the team hero, solving one problem after another. What if you could use those skills to improve the technology supporting our client?

As a System Administrator on our project, you’ll support the operation, maintenance, and design of information technology resources within a virtual environment for High Performance Computing (HPC) technology, digital engineering, and data analytics. You will maintain responsibility for the installation of new equipment and operating systems to best suit the needs of analysis to be conducted and the engineers requiring support. You’ll support the review of current infrastructure to provide an overview and prepare plans for improvement and enhancement that will increase efficiency and security within the network. You will maintain responsibility for cutting-edge computing systems and the evaluation of their use for research in furtherance of the mission.  

Your system administrator expertise will be vital as you identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network. You’ll help your team better understand the network by turning metrics into information and explaining their meaning.

Join us. The world can’t wait. 

You Have: 

• Experience configuring and managing Unix, Linux, and Windows operating systems, including installing or loading operating system software, troubleshooting, maintaining integrity of and configuring network components, and implementing operating systems enhancements to improve security, reliability, and performance

• Experience administering, monitoring, and maintaining HPC systems, including compute nodes, storage, networking, and software stacks

• Experience providing support to IT systems, including day-to-day operations, monitoring, and problem resolution for all client, server, storage, or network devices or mobile devices

• Experience optimizing system operations and resource utilization and performing system capacity analysis and planning

• Experience contributing to performance benchmarking, system tuning, and capacity planning

• Experience supporting researchers by providing technical expertise and resolving IT roadblocks or issues

• Knowledge of network engineering

• Ability to communicate with researchers to develop computing environments that will optimize results

• Top Secret clearance

• Bachelor's degree in System Administration, Network Administration, Computer Information Systems, or Computer Science and 10+ years of experience as a lead system administrator, or 15+ years of experience as a lead system administrator in lieu of a degree

Nice If You Have: 

• Experience with network fundamentals and network troubleshooting

• Experience in shell scripting and diagnosing open-source issues

• Experience with Slurm

• Experience with system automation tools or system provisioning tools

• Experience with distributed storage systems and containerization tools

• Experience installing, maintaining, and using infrastructure and performance monitoring and optimization tools

• Experience setting up and executing benchmarks in an HPC environment and analyzing their results systematically

• RedHat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) Certification

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Top Secret clearance is required.   

Compensation

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