Job Description
Job Description
HII - Technical Solutions Division is currently seeking a Systems Administrator to work out of their Fair Lakes, VA office.
The system administrator will manage a 24x7 AWS Cloud environment maintained for a program at the Department of Education. The administrator will have oversight over both the systems and networks comprising of AWS Windows and Linux virtual servers, production applications & their associated development environments. Responsibilities will include configuration, operations, and documentation; troubleshooting and repair; responding to service requests; monitoring; reporting; and responding to incidents.
Essential Job Responsibilities
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- Provide primary support in incident, crisis and change management.
- Provide support to the 24x7 help desk in resolving tier 1-3 issues.
- Develop and maintain system and network engineering plans, schematics, and diagrams.
- Perform scheduled and ad hoc backups with AWS native backup tools including VMs, SQL Server databases, and SharePoint servers, and implementing retention plans.
- Run and report on monthly vulnerability scan on all servers.
- Recommend and implement software for monitoring Windows logs on all servers.
- Configure and monitor service interruption detection and respond to outages.
- Monitor systems for adequate disk space.
- Monitor SQL Server transaction logs for excessive growth.
- Plan and maintain configuration documentation
Minimum Qualifications
- 6 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field
- Eight (8) years of experience in network administration, including at least five with Windows networks.
- Experience in most of the following areas:
- AWS Cloud Computing
- AWS Network architecture
- AWS EC2, S3, Route53, Load Balancing, Direct Connect, Systems Manager
- Windows networking
- Windows Server 2012/2016/2019
- Linux distributions
- Routers and firewalls (Palo Alto)
- Microsoft PowerShell
- Bash scripting
- IPv4 & IPv6 architecture and configuration
- DNS
- Virtual machine-based architecture (Hyper-V)
- Load balancing
- RAID technology
- Microsoft Internet Information Services
- Hosting Microsoft SQL Server (including data mirroring and backup and recovery considerations)
- Hosting Microsoft SharePoint (including backup and recovery considerations)
- Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Network diagramming in Visio
- Be available for monthly off-hours planned service windows, as well as other off-hours maintenance work when required.
- Clearance: Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- A new Federal Executive Order requires that employees of Federal contractors be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by December 8, 2021. Accordingly, as a condition of employment with Technical Solutions, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, employees will be required to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 or have an approved exemption prior to starting employment.
Preferred Requirements
- Experience with SharePoint 2013/2016/2019
- Previous experience with cloud architecture
- Familiarity with the Federal Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process.
- Experience with FISMA, low and moderate.
This opportunity resides with Defense & Federal Solutions, a business group within Technical Solutions, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries. Defense & Federal Solutions helps solve tough national security challenges for the Department of Defense, the intelligence community and federal civilian agencies. Our expert capabilities include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), and cyber; secure enterprise IT engineering and operations; military training and simulation; logistics management and integrated product support; and fleet maintenance, modernization, repair and sustainment.
Huntington Ingalls Industries is America's largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII's Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII's Technical Solutions division supports national security missions around the globe with unmanned systems, nuclear and environmental services, and defense and federal solutions. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs more than 42,000 people operating both domestically and internationally. For more information, visit: www.huntingtoningalls.com .
A new Federal Executive Order requires that employees of Federal contractors be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by December 8, 2021. Accordingly, as a condition of employment with Technical Solutions, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, employees will be required to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 or have an approved exemption prior to starting employment.
Huntington Ingalls Industries is an Equal Opportunity/Vets and Disabled Employer. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.