Senior Systems Engineer

WWC Federal is seeking an Senior Systems Engineer for a contract within the Department of Defense (DoD) at USTRANSCOM in support of Managed Information Technology Services (MITS) Enterprise Support.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Performing server administration tasks to include user/group administration, system permissions, group policies, print service, and resource monitoring.
• Ensuring system architecture components work together seamlessly.
• Building, testing, and maintaining new servers as needed.
• Evaluating, testing, maintaining and troubleshooting operating systems and other software applications to meet USTRANSCOM requirements.
• Ensuring software utilized is patched and/or updated to newer versions as required and incompliance with USTRANSCOM and DoD policy.
• Ensuring all software is authorized and supported on USTRANSCOM networks and systems.
• Monitoring server and datacenter performance using a variety of enterprise monitoring tools, reviewing anomalies, resource/capacity utilization, database performance, bulletins, event logs, and alerts
• Installing and maintaining the system monitoring, analysis, and reporting tools.
• Creating troubleshooting and maintenance procedures.
• Executing fault isolation and diagnostic functions to ensure the execution of corrective actions on a real-time basis.
• Interacting with government service owners, network technicians, customers, service desk, etc. to resolve issues or meet new requirements.
• Implementing, managing, and monitoring security controls using industry best practices, USTRANSCOM policy, and DOD policy and standards.
• Conducting and participating in network security audits.
• Advising the government on steps to take to mitigate security threats. If threat is imminent, determining risk of waiting to apply known fixes/patches as opposed to immediate implementation.
• Coordinating and implementing a routine server maintenance plan that includes, but is not limited to, software patching, operating system updates, and cyclical equipment reboots as required.
• Developing and implementing server backup, disaster recovery, and failover strategies, policies, and procedures by determining backup schedules and retention periods of backups, archiving backups, and determining off-site storage for backups.
• Developing and providing a routine, cyclical plan to test and validate the strategy.
• Responding to internal/external requests regarding IT systems/services expansion.
• Providing input to the government about whether the request meet USTRANSCOM’s requirements.
• Obtaining signoff from requestor and the government’s change control as required and then testing, integrating, and monitoring the solution.
• Maintaining up-to-date, accurate documentation of the enterprise server infrastructure.
• Keeping track of the inventory and location of systems.
• Developing and maintaining a Capacity Management Plan that details how capacity is managed and ensured for services and what methods are in place to deal with capacity resource limitations.

Multiple positions may be hired from this announcement.

Work Environment:

• Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers, phone and printers) and /or occasional Loud noise (airfield, large equipment).
• Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period of time.

Physical Demands:

• While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to sit, stand, talk, and hear.
• Employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers to operate a computer.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Travel:

• 0-20% / Occasional travel.

CeLeen, d/b/a WWC Federal, a Pequot company, is a tribally-owned firm providing management consulting services to U.S. government agencies.

Pursuant to PL 93-638, as amended, preference will be given to qualified Native Americans and spouses in all phases of employment.

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