Junior Systems Administrator — Mission-Critical IT Ops

AILANI HAWAIIAN FEDERAL LLC; Quantico (VA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ailani Wind Joint Venture is seeking a Junior Systems Administrator to support on-premises systems serving NIPR, SIPR, SAP, and AFSCI missions. You will work with senior admins on day-to-day server, storage, virtualization, identity, monitoring, backup, and documentation tasks.

You will respond to incidents, verify backups and system health, and help maintain secure, recoverable mission environments in a classified Federal setting.

Qualifications

• Expert-level knowledge of server OS, virtualization, backup/recovery, and business continuity concepts.
• Experience with Red Hat/Linux, Windows Server, VMware, and Commvault.
• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53/34/209 and applicable DAF/AFOSI COOP requirements.
• Ability to follow procedures, troubleshoot systematically, document work, and escalate issues.
• Safeguard classified and sensitive systems and comply with cybersecurity controls.

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 report or resolve conditions.
• Provision and update virtual machines, accounts, groups, permissions, DHCP records, etc.
• Assist with SAN, NAS, cloud-storage, and capacity-management activities.
• Execute approved patches, configuration changes, and maintenance tasks and document completion.
• Monitor backup jobs, investigate failures, and support restoration testing.
• Troubleshoot incidents and escalate issues appropriately.
• Support migrations to approved cloud environments.
• Participate in backup/restoral, DR, and COOP exercises.
• Maintain inventories, system records, diagrams, and SOPs.

Skills

Server OS

Virtualization

Backup/Recovery

Business continuity

NIST standards

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Tools

VMware

Commvault

Windows Server

Red Hat Linux

Job description

Ailani Wind Joint Venture is seeking a Junior Systems Administrator to support on-premises systems serving NIPR, SIPR, SAP, and AFSCI missions. You will work with senior admins on day-to-day server, storage, virtualization, identity, monitoring, backup, and documentation tasks.

You will respond to incidents, verify backups and system health, and help maintain secure, recoverable mission environments in a classified Federal setting.