System Administrator

V2X; Colorado Springs (CO); Presencial; USD 100 000 - 150 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

V2X, Inc. is seeking a System Administrator to join the GBRD team to design, deploy, and sustain the Common Radar Back End platform across lab and field environments.

You will manage Linux and Windows servers, virtualization, containers, and automation to keep mission applications secure, available, and well-documented. Responsibilities include patching, backup, logging, monitoring, and configuration management, with occasional CONUS/OCONUS travel as needed.

Qualificações

• Minimum 8 years of related experience.
• Hands-on experience installing, configuring, administering, patching, and troubleshooting Linux server operating systems.
• Experience administering Windows Server environments, including services, accounts, permissions, patching, and troubleshooting.
• Experience managing physical servers, virtual machines, storage, file systems, system services, and operating-system dependencies.
• Experience with user and group administration, access permissions, authentication, privileged access, and account lifecycle management.
• Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of containers and container platforms such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or equivalent.
• Experience performing backup, restore, recovery, configuration backup, and system-rebuild activities.
• Experience applying secure configuration baselines, patching requirements, audit settings, and vulnerability-remediation actions.
• Ability to create and maintain accurate system documentation, administrator procedures, configuration records, and troubleshooting guides.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
• U.S. citizenship with active DoD Secret security clearance.

Responsabilidades

• Design, install, configure, and troubleshoot Linux and Windows servers.
• Manage user accounts, roles, permissions, and privileged access.
• Administer physical servers, VMs, storage, and file systems.
• Support container hosting environments and basic cluster admin.
• Maintain monitoring, logging, backups, and disaster-recovery.
• Document configurations and maintain SOPs and runbooks.

Conhecimentos

Linux admin

Windows admin

Virtualization

Containers

Backup recovery

Scripting

Documentation

Troubleshooting

Security patching

Networking

Communication

DoD clearance

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Advanced degree accepted

Equivalent experience

Ferramentas

VMware

Hyper-V

KVM

Docker

Podman

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

Active Directory

Prometheus

Grafana

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Overview

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $4.5B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

As a part of the V2X Ground-Based Radar Development (GBRD) team, we are a part of an exciting opportunity to design and field a Common Radar Back End supporting UEWR, PARCS, COBRA DANE, and AN/FPS 85 radar sites.

We are seeking a System Administrator to join a team of engineers in the design of the Common Radar Back End platform layer—servers, operating systems, containerized hosting environment, health/status, logging, and platform automation—across multiple integration laboratories serving operational radar sites. Our qualified candidate will be instrumental in certifying that mission applications are hosted on a stable, secure, and well-documented platform and will seamlessly integrate into the mission-critical systems supporting the radar systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot Linux and Windows server operating systems in laboratory and operational environments.
• Apply approved operating-system baselines, patches, packages, drivers, firmware dependencies, user settings, and service configurations.
• Develop processes for and manage user accounts, groups, roles, permissions, authentication settings, and privileged access in accordance with approved procedures.
• Administer physical servers, virtual machines, storage resources, file systems, and supporting platform services.
• Support containerized hosting environments, including node configuration, service deployment, image updates, configuration changes, service restarts, and basic cluster administration.
• Configure and maintain system monitoring, health and status, alerting, performance, capacity, and availability tools.
• Configure and maintain system logging, audit collection, log rotation, retention, search, export, and forwarding to centralized monitoring tools.
• Perform routine backup, restore, recovery, configuration backup, and disaster-recovery support activities.
• Execute approved automation scripts and tools for system deployment, health checks, configuration validation, patch reporting, account management, and recurring administration tasks.
• Support system integration by building test configurations, applying approved changes, collecting diagnostics, and reproducing technical issues.
• Troubleshoot operating-system, storage, virtualization, container, service, account, performance, and interface issues or issues that are blocking developers or test engineers; document corrective actions.
• Support rack installation, server setup, operating-system installation, cable and interface verification, configuration checkout, and post-installation validation.
• Maintain accurate configuration documentation, as-built records, system inventories, software versions, hardware details, network settings, and administrator procedures.
• Support cybersecurity personnel by implementing approved hardening requirements, remediation actions, account controls, audit settings, and evidence collection.
• Support developmental and operational test activities by collecting logs, isolating faults, reproducing issues, implementing approved corrections, and supporting retest.
• Develop, document, and maintain system builds, network diagrams, administrator runbooks, checklists, standard operating procedures, recovery procedures, and training materials.
• Provide technical status, issue, risk, and configuration information to engineering and program stakeholders.
• Office based environment. Maybe some occasional travel, CONUS, OCONUS and Remote.

Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical discipline and at least 5 years of relevant experience.
• An advanced degree in a related discipline and at least 3 years of relevant experience may be accepted.
• Additional directly relevant systems-administration experience may be considered in place of a degree, subject to company policy and applicable laws and regulations or generalized experience.

Required Skills:

• Minimum 8 years of related expereince.
• Hands-on experience installing, configuring, administering, patching, and troubleshooting Linux server operating systems.
• Experience administering Windows Server environments, including services, accounts, permissions, patching, and troubleshooting.
• Experience managing physical servers, virtual machines, storage, file systems, system services, and operating-system dependencies.
• Experience with user and group administration, access permissions, authentication, privileged access, and account lifecycle management.
• Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of containers and container platforms such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or equivalent.
• Experience performing backup, restore, recovery, configuration backup, and system-rebuild activities.
• Experience applying secure configuration baselines, patching requirements, audit settings, and vulnerability-remediation actions.
• Ability to create and maintain accurate system documentation, administrator procedures, configuration records, and troubleshooting guides.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
• U.S. citizenship with active DoD Secret security clearance.

Desired Skills:

• Experience supporting radar, missile defense, space surveillance, command-and-control, sensor, weapon, or other mission-critical systems.
• Experience supporting laboratory-to-site deployments, systems integration laboratories, test facilities, or fielded operational systems.
• Experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Ubuntu Server, or comparable enterprise Linux distributions.
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite, Foreman, Spacewalk, Windows Server Update Services, or comparable patch and lifecycle-management tools.
• Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster administration and container image deployment.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management using Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Terraform, or equivalent.
• Experience with enterprise identity services such as Active Directory, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, Kerberos, or centralized authentication.
• Experience with clustered services, high availability, redundant systems, and degraded-mode operations.
• Familiarity with Risk Management Framework activities, NIST SP 800-53 controls, Security Technical Implementation Guides, and cybersecurity assessment evidence.
• Familiarity with configuration management, engineering change control, technical data packages, and digital engineering environments.
• Relevant certifications such as Security+, Linux+, Red Hat Certified System Administrator, Red Hat Certified Engineer, Microsoft, VMware, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
• Ability to work effectively with software, network, cybersecurity, systems engineering, test, installation, and operations teams.
• Ability to support occasional CONUS, OCONUS site travel.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, including Internet Protocol addressing, subnetting, Virtual Local Area Networks, Domain Name System, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, routing, switching, and firewall concepts.
• Ability to use Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or comparable scripting and automation tools for systems-administration tasks.
• Experience with system monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Elastic Stack, Splunk, syslog, or equivalent.

At V2X, we are deeply committed to both equal employment opportunity, including protection for Veterans and individuals with disabilities, and fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We ensure all individuals are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, recognizing the strength that comes from a workforce rich in diverse experiences, perspectives, and skills. This commitment, aligned with our core Vision and Values of Integrity, Respect, and Responsibility, allows us to leverage differences, encourage innovation, and expand our success in the global marketplace, ultimately enabling us to best serve our clients.