System Administrator 2 - Salem, VA 24153 (Onsite)

Yakshna Solutions, Inc.; Salem, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Training

Professional development

Job summary

Yakshna Solutions, Inc. is seeking a System Administrator to support the Virginia Dept of Transportation (VDOT) as part of a larger United States operations footprint.

The role requires hands-on systems administration, engineering, provisioning, and ongoing maintenance across servers and storage. You will perform monitoring, backups, OS patching, and performance tuning, while providing Tier III support and collaborating with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5 years of IT customer support experience.
• 2 years of experience in IT process management, network support, server maintenance, desktop support, service, and ticket management.

Responsibilities

• Provide system administration and support for VA project needs.
• Install and configure servers, storage, and related services.
• Perform daily system monitoring and security checks, and verify backups.
• Manage user accounts and respond to incidents and requests.
• Apply patches and upgrades to systems and tools.
• Maintain documentation and assist with capacity planning.
• Troubleshoot hardware/software failures and coordinate with stakeholders.
• Configure and optimize resources including CPU, memory, and disk partitions.

Skills

IT experience

Customer support

Ticket management

Documentation

Tools

OS patches

Asset management

Monitoring

Backups

Job description

We strive to attract and retain the brightest people and offer different job experiences with a full range of challenges and rewards.

We help companies realize and implement IT solutions strategically. Yakshna Solutions supports our client’s mission and goals by sharing our know-how, skills and knowledge. We strive to attract and retain the brightest people and offer different job experiences with a full range of challenges and rewards. We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer.

Working with Yakshna gives you the opportunity to develop your knowledge, skills, and abilities. Additionally, you can build a network of peers, mentors and advance your career! We offer exciting opportunities to work with leading industry experts, business consultants and IT specialists across large government and private sector companies. The people who work in Yakshna are as diverse as our services. We recognize the crucial importance of each individual to our success and offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits and innovative training.

Opportunities here exist across many services and across many US states.

Open Jobs

Aug 14 2026

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Job Title

Job Description

808859 System Administrator 2

Yakshna Solutions, Inc ., (YSI)is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serve its business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the following:

• 401(k)
• health
• dental
• and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• short-term and long-term disability insurance
• paid time off
• training
• and professional development assistance

YSI is seeking a System Administrator to support the Virginia Dept of Transportation (VDOT).

Job Responsibilities

• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. Works under limited supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
• Systems administration, engineering and provisioning, operations and support, maintenance and research and development to ensure continual innovation.
• Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc.in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups. Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
• Perform/verify daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media/network location.
• Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary. Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.
• Provide Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues. Diagnose and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.
• Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures. Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required. Maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.
• Upgrade and configure system software or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5 years of experience in IT Customer Support/Service
• 2 years of experience IT Process Management, Network Support, Server Maintenance, Desktop/Laptop Hardware Support, Documentation Support, Desktop Application Support, Service, and Ticket Management

Location: 1596 Deborah Lane, Salem, VA 24153

Salary: $70,000-$75,000 annually with benefits

US Citizen or Green card holder only

YSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.