Senior Systems Administrator – TS/SCI Poly – On-Site

Power3 Solutions; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive health plans

401k matching

12+ paid holidays

PTO 25 days

Career development

Job summary

Power3 Solutions in the Fort Meade area seeks a Sr. System Administrator to support implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of IT systems. You will manage day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution across client/server/storage/network devices, and provide Tier 1/2 support.

Qualified candidates hold TS/SCI with Polygraph, UNIX/Windows experience, and strong systems engineering skills. The role emphasizes reliability, performance improvements, and coordination with agency

Qualifications

• Ten (10) years experience as a SA in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• Five (5) years of additional SA experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Three (3) years experience installing, configuring, maintaining, troubleshooting, and using system security tools.

Responsibilities

• 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 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.
• Provide in-depth experience in trouble-shooting IT systems.
• Provide detailed analysis and feedback to agency management and internal customers for escalated tickets.
• Provide support for the dispatch system and hardware problems and remains involved in the resolution process.
• Configure and manage UNIX and Windows operating systems and installs/loads operating system software, troubleshoot, maintain integrity of and configure network components, along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance.

Skills

IT systems

Troubleshooting

Tier 1 support

Tier 2 escalation

UNIX

Windows

Network fundamentals

Capacity planning

Security tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

ELK

Tripwire

VMware

RedHat SELinux

Job description

Power3 Solutions in the Fort Meade area seeks a Sr. System Administrator to support implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of IT systems. You will manage day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution across client/server/storage/network devices, and provide Tier 1/2 support.

Qualified candidates hold TS/SCI with Polygraph, UNIX/Windows experience, and strong systems engineering skills. The role emphasizes reliability, performance improvements, and coordination with agency