• Senior Systems Sustainment Administrator - Evening

    SAIC (Suffolk, VA)


    Description

    SAIC is looking for a **Senior Systems Engineer** to serve as a Senior Systems Administrator with experience in US Navy IT networks to support the sustained operation and maintenance of a newly deployed US Navy enterprise transport network, ensuring 24/7/365 availability and reliability. The position will support end-to-end network, system, and element visibility; facilitate rapid operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning to maintaining the operational integrity of a mission-critical network, requiring both technical expertise and a commitment to excellence in service delivery. **This position will work a schedule of 3PM - 11PM, 5 days per week to include weekends and a rotating on call requirement.**

     

    Work will be performed at the Navy customer’s site in Suffolk, VA.

     

    _Job is contingent on funding in April 2025._

    Specific duties include:

    + Provide Tier 2 level engineering operations support to quickly identify, triage, and address outages, analyzing symptoms and potential root causes to implement effective resolutions or escalate to Tier 3/Tier 4 support as required

    + Utilize advanced monitoring tools and processes to oversee network infrastructure, monitor the performance and availability of managed services and systems across multiple exchange points, and ensure optimal performance

    + Perform day to day maintenance, fixes, configuration corrections, software and hardware updates, and deployments

    + Adhere to system and operational reporting obligations

    + Operate and maintain the privileged access solutions

    + Maintain continuous verification of failover processes and disaster recovery procedures

    + Operate and maintain hardware upgrade process and procedures

    + Update and maintain any software builds applicable to deployed equipment

    + Operate and maintain asset management processes and procedures

    + Operate and maintain configuration management

    + Enact change management for the solution

    + Operate and maintain existing incident management processes

    + Keep firmware, software updates and patches up to date for equipment

    Qualifications

    Required Education and Years of Experience:

    + Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related discipline and five (5) years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture and supporting a large network infrastructure

    + 4 years of additional experience can be considered in lieu of degree

    Required Security Clearance:

    + Secret Clearance required

    Required Skills and Experience:

    + Experience with the following: Linux and Windows Server deployment and administration; Active Directory and Group Policy; DNS; Python, BASH, Powershell, or similar; Ansible (Tower), Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Containerization, Jenkins, or similar; and deploying VMs within VMWare vSphere

    + Experience with the following a plus: Nautobot, RHEL Satellite, InfoBlox DDI, RedHat Linux 8

    + Strong working knowledge with Routers, Switches, Firewalls, and Virtual Private Network devices

    + Good understanding of TCP/IP in regards to routing and subnetting

    + Windows Server / Active Directory

    Required Certifications:

    + IAT Level II required (Sec + and OS Certification)

    Working Environment and Travel:

    + Able to work shifts to cover a 24x7 operational environment

    + Able to cover on-call schedule on a rotating basis

    + Travel up to 25% may be required

    Desired:

    + Certifications are considered a plus: CompTia Linux+, RedHat Linux, Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate

     

    SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

     

    Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

    REQNUMBER: 2502771

    SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability