We pride ourselves on an open, and honest culture in the workplace which builds morale conducive to inspiring growth on our team, while balancing lifestyle by supporting personal and family goals with flexibility. We offer secure network systems and software engineering solutions in both the public and private sectors. With certified experts consulting the team, we are able to address the customer's mission and follow-through in the systems development life cycle. 

Clearance Required: TS/SCI w/poly
Title: System AdministratorSA3 for Servers
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR III shall have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, and have eight (8) years of demonstrable experience in system administration and support of a large client-server based IT enterprise. IAT Level II Certification Required. The individual can have additional five (5) years of full time computer science work that can be
substituted for the Bachelor’s Degree, and have eight (8) years of demonstrable experience in the system administration and support of a large client-server based IT enterprise. An industry recognized professional certification may substitute as one year experience.
 
This experience shall include installation, configuration, and networking of Linux and/or Windows based platforms with experience:

 Servers running Red Hat, CentOS, SolarisX64, SuSe, with direct attached and FC SAN storage
 Server and Blade systems and associated interconnects (SAD, FC, TCP/IP, etc.), firmware management, configuration management and advance hardware troubleshooting
 Individual shall have a fundamental understanding of operating systems and be familiar with both Linux and Windows advanced commands and utilities at the enterprise server level.
 Experience shall include the installation and configuration of hardware,
operating systems, and commercial software packages.
 Individual shall be able to develop and implement enterprise backup/recovery strategies, server configuration and consolidation, and verification of the health and status of the entire IT infrastructure.
 Individual shall be able to provide tier 2/3 enterprise-level support for services such as DNS, NFS, E-mail services (Microsoft Exchange, Sendmail), security protection mechanisms (ACLs, Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), and the interoperability of Linux and Windows based systems.
 Individual shall be able to develop and implement enterprise patch
management strategies (ePO, WSUS, YUM Repositories)
 Manage and troubleshoot scripts, Kickstart servers and configuration files
 Accepted professional certifications include:

• Linux+ or higher
• COMPTIA Sec+

PLUS:
In addition to the above qualifications, SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR SA3 FOR SERVERS must have the following qualifications required by the relevant TTO: Installation, configuration, tuning, and support of:
 Servers running Sparc Solaris, SolarisX64, red Hat, and SuSe, with direct
attached and FC SAN storage
 Client server technology utilizing NFS and CIFS
 Large memory SMP systems with many cores
 Enterprise client server configurations
 Multi-vendor filesystems such as XFS, GPFS, and CXFS
 Fielded systems
 Blade systems and associated interconnects (SAD, FC, TCP/IP, etc.)
 Red Hat and Microsoft Windows Operating System
 Microsoft Exchange
 Centrify
 Infrastructure support services such as DNS, NIS, Active Directory, Centrify, Zenoss, SiteScope, HP Openview, HPSA, HPSE, Splunk, Sendmail, Exchange, NetQoS, Infoblox
 Thin client solutions based on Virtual bridges and Centrix
 NoMachine NX
 Virtualizing products; VMWare and Solaris containers
 Accepted professional certifications include:

• Possess a valid RHCSA or higher Red Hat certification

Benefits:

We offer a competitive benefits and compensation package and FUN place to work! Benefits include, but not limited to:

Health and Wellness Benefits

• Medical Insurance (three CareFirst healthcare plans to choose from, Dental and Vision Insurance, 75% covered for employee/ 50% per dependant

• Health Savings Account (HSA) contributions $1500 individual/ $3000 family

Personal Insurance Benefits 

• Company-paid Life Insurance and AD&D coverage

• Company-paid Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance

Paid Leave

• Employees receive 20 days of vacation/10 holidays built into hourly rate/ 5 days of sick time (currently used for snow, jury, bereavement) 

Retirement

•  Pre-tax 401k program including 6% company match

• 100% fully vested from eligibility date

*Eligible after 90 days of employment

Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, pregnancy, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.