Senior Citrix Administrator

Cape Henry Associates, Acquired by JANUS Research Group; Radford (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive health and welfare plans

Referrals bonus program

Career development opportunities

Job summary

A leading IT services provider in Radford, VA, is seeking a Senior Citrix Administrator to support the Army’s IT requirements. This role involves managing and maintaining Windows servers in a mixed environment, ensuring security and performance. Candidates should have extensive experience with Citrix technologies and strong interpersonal skills. Opportunities for career growth and a comprehensive benefits package are offered, making this position ideal for IT professionals looking to advance their careers.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance required.
• Five or more years' experience as a Windows Systems Administrator.
• Experience in Computer Science or IT.

Responsibilities

• Support the ALTESS Windows team in a mixed environment.
• Manage, maintain, and deploy servers for various customers.
• Monitor and tune system performance and security.

Skills

CompTIA Security+

Citrix Xenapp

PowerShell

Networking principles

Strong interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Citrix NetScaler Gateway

IIS

Apache

Job description

This position is contingent upon contract award. Candidates must have an active Secret clearance and verify, before applying, that you meet the minimum requirements of the position.

Job Overview

JANUS Research Group is seeking a Senior Citrix Administrator to support the IT Services and Support (ITSS) requirements for the U.S. Army Product Lead Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services (PL ALTESS) requirement, in support of the Program Executive Office Enterprise (PEO Enterprise) in Radford, VA.

Responsibilities

The Senior Citrix Administrator will be supporting the ALTESS Windows team. This is currently a mixed and growing environment of Windows 2019 and Windows 2022. This position will work with the existing Windows team to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot and support servers for a mixed customer environment. The role will plan, execute and implement new system HW and SW, and create and maintain team technical instructions, operating procedures and policies as needed. The Senior Citrix Administrator will need to be adept at monitoring and tuning system performance, ongoing operation of the servers, hardening of the servers and reporting of the overall security and operational status, recommending improvements to the enterprise and managing new SW/HW integrations when required while also providing utilization reports using existing tools to identify problems and corrective actions as needed. The position will need excellent communication and team skills. It will also provide support toward the lifecycle of a mixed environment of vendor equipment in the datacenter, including firmware version control and periodic preventive maintenance, and will need to be able to recommend, demonstrate, and implement technologies to help expand, upgrade, and increase efficiencies to the current environment.

Required Qualifications

• CompTIA Security+.
• Computing Environment (CE) Certification (i.e., MCSE, Server+, CCNA, RedHat, Palo, etc.) or ability to obtain.
• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance.
• Experience in Computer Science or IT.
• Five or more years' experience as a Windows Systems Administrator or Engineer designing, installing, and maintaining Citrix Xenapp, NetScaler Gateway, Citrix Storefront, and Citrix Director.
• Three more years’ experience in automating assigned tasks utilizing PowerShell.
• Three or more years’ installing, configuration, maintaining, and troubleshooting complex applications and websites IIS, Apache, etc.
• Three or more years’ experience working in an environment with complex networking solutions with senior level fundamental knowledge in networking principles (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SNMP).
• Strong interpersonal skills and willingness to be a team player.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent years of experience.
• Three or more years’ experience supporting Cybersecurity patch management and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG), SRG, RMF, SCAV, and Cyber Operational Readiness Assessments (CORA).
• Three or more years’ experience managing enterprise level Active Directory Structures.
• Three or more years’ experience creating and maintaining complex MS Group Policy implementations.
• Three or more years' experience creating, maintaining, following Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable processes, disaster recovery, and common problem resolution.
• Three or more years’ experience configuring and maintaining key services such as DNS, SFTP, SMTP, and NTP.

Benefits and Work Environment

JANUS strives to provide opportunities for career growth through training and development. We also offer an attractive comprehensive benefit package to include health and welfare plans and financial products. As part of a total rewards program, employees can benefit from our referral bonus program, and other various employee awards. JANUS Research Group takes pride in our benefit package and rewards program which has earned us the certification of a Great Place to Work™.

JANUS Research Group provides reasonable accommodation so that qualified applicants with a disability may participate in the selection process. Please advise us of any accommodations you request to express interest in a position by e‑mailing: Judy Pagac, Chief Human Resources Officer at [e-mail] or calling (706) 364‑9100. Please state your request for assistance in your message. Only reasonable accommodation requests related to applying for a specific position within JANUS Research Group will be reviewed at the e‑mail address and phone number supplied. Thank you for considering a career with JANUS Research Group.

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JANUS Research Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. It is company policy to provide equal opportunity in all areas of employment practice without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, citizenship or disability.

This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60‑1.4(a), 60‑300.5(a) and 60‑741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.