DoD Systems Administrator – TS-Cleared, Onsite Pax River

Socket.dev; Patuxent Highland (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

SMX is seeking a highly motivated Systems Administrator to support Aircraft/Weapons Systems networks. This onsite role will be based at Patuxent River NAS, southern Maryland, working with a team delivering cybersecurity, virtualization, and infrastructure services for DoD missions.

The candidate will hold Top Secret clearance (interim TS acceptable to start), have 3+ years in systems administration, VMware management, ACAS, and DoD 8570-aligned certifications.

Qualifications

• Top Secret clearance required; interim TS to start; upgrade from Secret possible.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant systems administration experience.
• Familiar with server builds, virtualization, networking basics, and DoD guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide solutions for government software hosting and customers.
• Deploy and maintain physical and virtual hardware and containers.
• Perform routine maintenance on hosts and troubleshoot issues.
• Maintain backups and disaster recovery plans.
• Manage user accounts and permissions.
• Deploy software applications and document configurations.
• Ensure DoD security posture and continuous monitoring.
• Support Agile project planning and on-prem networking tasks.

Skills

System administration

Networking knowledge

DoD compliance knowledge

Education

Windows or Linux OS certification

Tools

VMware management

ACAS scanning

Application deployments

Job description

SMX is seeking a highly motivated Systems Administrator to support Aircraft/Weapons Systems networks. This onsite role will be based at Patuxent River NAS, southern Maryland, working with a team delivering cybersecurity, virtualization, and infrastructure services for DoD missions.

The candidate will hold Top Secret clearance (interim TS acceptable to start), have 3+ years in systems administration, VMware management, ACAS, and DoD 8570-aligned certifications.