Senior Systems Administrator — HPC & Enterprise Infra

the-swift-group; Utah; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Swift is seeking a Systems Administrator to join our growing team in Annapolis Junction, MD and Bluffdale, Utah. The SA will support mission-critical IT systems, optimize operations, and troubleshoot complex environments across Linux, Windows, and HPC platforms.

Qualifications include a technical bachelor's degree and extensive SA experience; a current government clearance (plus polygraph) is required. This role offers challenging, mission-driven work in a security-focused setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Five (5) years of additional SA experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Ten (10) years of SA experience in similar scope and complexity required (Level 2).
• Fifteen (15) years of SA experience in similar scope and complexity required (Level 3).

Responsibilities

• Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of IT systems.
• Manage day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for client/server/storage/network devices and mobile devices.
• Optimize system operations and resource utilization, and perform capacity analysis and planning.
• Provide in-depth experience in trouble-shooting IT systems and feedback to management.
• Support dispatch system and hardware problems and participate in resolution.
• Configure and manage enterprise OS including RHEL, Rocky Linux, and Windows; perform installation, patching, tuning.
• Describe systems, mission architecture and associated hardware.
• Understand system administration interdependencies as part of SOA.
• Analyze and resolve complex problems with server hardware, applications and software integration.
• Support HPC tools such as Slurm, PBS, or Grid Engine.
• Manage distributed file systems like Lustre or GPFS and troubleshoot I/O.
• Monitor and maintain high-speed interconnects like InfiniBand, Slingshot, or Omni-Path.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline

Tools

RHEL

Rocky Linux

Windows Server

Job description

Swift is seeking a Systems Administrator to join our growing team in Annapolis Junction, MD and Bluffdale, Utah. The SA will support mission-critical IT systems, optimize operations, and troubleshoot complex environments across Linux, Windows, and HPC platforms.

Qualifications include a technical bachelor's degree and extensive SA experience; a current government clearance (plus polygraph) is required. This role offers challenging, mission-driven work in a security-focused setting.