Intermediate Systems Administrator – DoD IT, TS/SCI, Cloud

PingWind; Quantico (VA); On-site; USD 68,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Federal Holidays

Health & Dental Insurance Options

401k with matching

Paid vacation and sick leave

Continuing education assistance

Disability & Life Insurance

EAP Guidance Resources

Job summary

PingWind is seeking an Intermediate Systems Administrator to sustain on-premises computing environments supporting NIPR, SIPR, SAP, and AFSCI missions. The role covers server/storage administration, virtualization, and backup/recovery across sanctioned environments.

Responsibilities include patching, change control, cloud migration support, and ensuring mission availability with coordination across cybersecurity and Government stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in IT, cybersecurity, CS, or related field.
• Active TS/SCI clearance required.
• Minimum of three (3) years of specialized Federal or DoW system administration experience.
• Experience with on-premises computing environments, servers, storage, virtualization, and backup.
• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53, SP 800-34, SP 800-209 and COOP requirements.

Responsibilities

• Administer Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, enterprise applications, and supporting infrastructure across authorized environments.
• Operate and maintain SAN, NAS, cloud-storage, and other enterprise storage services.
• Provision, configure, monitor, right-size, and sustain virtual machines and VMware or comparable virtualization platforms.
• Monitor Active Directory, DHCP, authentication services, application health, capacity, utilization, and system performance.
• Install approved patches, configuration changes, security controls, and software releases using established change-management procedures.
• Administer Commvault or comparable backup platforms; schedule and monitor backups and perform and document restoration tests.
• Investigate system incidents and performance degradation, determine root causes, implement corrective actions, and document results.
• Support migration of workloads, applications, data, and services to approved cloud environments.
• Develop, maintain, and execute backup/restoral, business continuity, disaster recovery, and continuity of operations procedures and exercises.
• Maintain system inventories, architecture diagrams, build records, SOPs, and configuration baselines.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity, network, application, service desk, and Government stakeholders to sustain mission availability.

Skills

Red Hat/Linux Admin

Windows Server Admin

VMware Virtualization

Commvault Backup

Backup & DR Concepts

NIST/COOP Knowledge

Troubleshooting

Secure Configurations

Documentation

Independent/Teamwork in DoW

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

VMware

Commvault

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Windows Server

Job description

PingWind is seeking an Intermediate Systems Administrator to sustain on-premises computing environments supporting NIPR, SIPR, SAP, and AFSCI missions. The role covers server/storage administration, virtualization, and backup/recovery across sanctioned environments.

Responsibilities include patching, change control, cloud migration support, and ensuring mission availability with coordination across cybersecurity and Government stakeholders.