Junior Systems Administrator

Vosper Thornycroft Group; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Vosper Thornycroft Group is seeking a Junior Systems Administrator based in Fort Meade, Maryland. The role involves supporting a mission-focused customer in the development, deployment, and maintenance of RF processing systems.

The ideal candidate must have System Administration experience with CentOS, Rocky, and RHEL and TS/SCI with Poly clearance. Key responsibilities include IT system troubleshooting, support, and optimization for effective operations, making it vital to have strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• TS/SCI with Poly required.
• Upgrading servers, workstations, laptops.
• Hardware installation experience (servers/workstations).

Responsibilities

• Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of IT systems.
• Manage the daily activities of configuration and operation of IT systems.
• Optimize system operations and resource utilization.

Skills

System Administration experience

Linux

Ansible

Troubleshooting

Windows 10/11 administration

Education

Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Tools

CentOS 7

Rocky 9

RHEL 9

Proxmox

Job description

Overview

VTG is looking for a Junior Systems Administrator to join our team. This position will support a mission-focused customer developing, deploying, and maintaining RF processing systems.

What will you do?

• Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of IT systems
• Provide Tier 1 (Help Desk) problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems
• Manage the daily activities of configuration and operation of IT systems
• Provide assistance to users in accessing and using IT systems
• Provide Tier 1 (Help Desk) and Tier 2 (Escalation) problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems
• Provide support to IT systems including day‑to‑day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for all of the client/server/storage/network devices, mobile devices, etc.
• Provide support for the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers
• Optimize system operations and resource utilization, and perform system capacity analysis and planning

Do you have what it takes?

Required Qualifications

• TS/SCI with Poly required
• Required Skills:
  • System Administration experience with CentOS 7, Rocky 9, and RHEL 9
  • Upgrading servers, workstations, laptops
  • Experience with the Customer Secure the Enterprise (STE) tasks
  • Experience with the Customer data transfer process
  • Hardware installation experience (servers/workstations)
  • Linux

Desired

• Task Automation
  • Ansible experience
  • PXE boot
• Building VMs using Proxmox
• Identity Manager (IDM) experience
  • Integration of IDM with a CentOS LDAP server
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator
• Experience trouble shooting and configuring Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• Windows 10/11 administration
• Linux networking experience