Junior Systems Administrator - Mission-Critical IT

Ailani Hawaiian, LLC; Triangle (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ailani Wind Joint Venture seeks a Junior Systems Administrator to support operation and maintenance of on-premises systems serving NIPR, SIPR, SAP, and AFSCI missions. Working with senior admins, you will perform day-to-day server, storage, virtualization, identity, monitoring, backup, and documentation activities.

You will respond to incidents, verify backups and system health, help maintain recoverable, secure, and reliable mission environments, and participate in disaster recovery exercises

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field.
• Equivalent specialized experience may be considered.
• Active TS/SCI clearance required; Cloud+ CE, Server+ CE, or Security+ CE certifications as applicable.
• Minimum of three (3) years of specialized Federal or DoD system administration experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine administration and maintenance of Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers under approved procedures.
• Monitor server, storage, application, authentication, and virtualization dashboards and promptly report or resolve identified conditions.
• Provision and update virtual machines, accounts, groups, permissions, DHCP records, and other assigned services.
• Assist with SAN, NAS, cloud-storage, and capacity-management activities.
• Execute approved patches, configuration changes, software installations, and maintenance tasks and document completion.
• Monitor Commvault or comparable backup jobs, investigate failures, and support scheduled restoration testing.
• Troubleshoot assigned system, application, performance, and access incidents and escape complex issues with complete technical notes.
• Support workload, application, and data migrations to approved cloud environments.
• Participate in backup/restoral, disaster recovery, business continuity, and continuity of operations exercises.
• Maintain inventories, system records, diagrams, checklists, standard operating procedures, and configuration documentation.
• Coordinate with senior administrators and network, cyber, application, and service desk personnel to sustain mission operations.

Skills

Server operating systems

Virtualization

Enterprise backup/recovery

Business continuity concepts

Security and compliance controls

Troubleshooting and documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology / Cybersecurity / Computer Science

Tools

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Windows Server

VMware

Commvault

Job description

Ailani Wind Joint Venture seeks a Junior Systems Administrator to support operation and maintenance of on-premises systems serving NIPR, SIPR, SAP, and AFSCI missions. Working with senior admins, you will perform day-to-day server, storage, virtualization, identity, monitoring, backup, and documentation activities.

You will respond to incidents, verify backups and system health, help maintain recoverable, secure, and reliable mission environments, and participate in disaster recovery exercises