Description
Leidos has an opening for a Sr. Systems Administrator - To support our NSO team, in providing Linux engineering and administrative support on a complicated distributed Linux-based System.
Description of Job Duties/Responsibilities:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills regarding developing project briefings, updating system designs, rack elevations, wiring diagrams, and system outage after action reports
- Understanding of all phases of the software development lifecycle; the System Engineering Life Cycle; and the ability to comprehend user business needs and concerns and integrate that understanding with technical skills
- Provides Linux platform support (i.e. RHEL, CentOS) and administrative support, including management and troubleshooting
- Illustrates hands-on knowledge and experience building and deploying automated server and workstation builds across an enterprise infrastructure with environments that are logically separated]
- Illustrates hands-on experience and understanding of proactive monitoring concepts, including experience configuring and deploying Network and systems monitoring (i.e. SNMP, Splunk, etc.)
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware/software issues, restore the environment to an operational state with minimal downtime, perform root cause analysis and provide a forward leaning mitigation strategy
- Proficient in Cloud Computing, Competencies of systems including: Fault tolerance, High availability, Scalability and Capacity planning, Data center organization, and Backup / Recovery
- Illustrates knowledge of at least three of the following technologies: Encryption, IDS/IPS, Firewalls, Anti-Virus, VPNs, SSL
- Researches emerging technologies to determine impact on application/system integration and execution
- Work with developers/engineers across disciplines to define customer and system requirements; design a solution that meets the current requirements and is scalable to meet future enterprise requirements
- Provides experience with patching and maintaining server build
- On-Call -Required to carrier a pager
REQUIREMENTS
- Required Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
- Required Qualifications: Candidate must have 16 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 8 years of experience OR Masters and 10 years, Bachelors and 12 years, Associates and 14 years or HS and 16 years. Must comply with DoD 8570 IAT Level 2. Bachelors degree in IT or Computer Science.
Desired Qualifications:
- Displays understanding of open source frameworks, with experience deploying various open source packages and/or application stacks into sponsor's production landscape
- Establishes ability to deploy and maintain Linux baseline for physical and virtual platforms
- Establishes ability to develop and maintain capacity metric
- Interprets and implements new concepts, technologies and products quickly
- On-Call -Required to carrier a pager
- Team player, work independently and manage multiple task assignments
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills regarding developing project briefings, updating system designs, rack elevations, wiring diagrams, and system outage after action reports
- Illustrates experience performing trend analysis on overall system health, performance, and capacity management regarding utilization and growth
Pay Range:
Pay Range $84,500.00 - $152,750.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
About Leidos
Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 46,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
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