Linux/Windows Systems Administrator - Peraton
Home, FL
About the Job
Responsibilities
The Office of Space Weather Observations (SWO) under NESDIS is responsible for advancing space weather observational capabilities to meet NOAA programmatic needs. NOAA’s Space Weather Next (SWX) program maintains and extends space weather observations from various vantage points, selected to most efficiently provide comprehensive knowledge of the Sun and the near-Earth space environment needed to protect our technological infrastructure.
The Space Weather Ground Services (SWGS) is responsible for comprehensive ground services for all SWX projects, ensuring successful implementation and operation of observing assets and ensuring the continuity of space weather measurements made by SWFO-L1 and the GOES-R series satellites.
The SWGS Mission Operations Services (MOS) program must provide a full mission satellite command and control solution to support the L1 Series with two new independently launched observatories.
Peraton is seeking to hire a Linux/Windows Systems Administrator to join this new SWGS-MOS program.
**This position is contingent on contract award.**
Responsibilities:
- Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of Information Technology (IT) systems within Linux and Windows infrastructures.
- Understand and implement hardening/STIG policies as defined by client and industry standards.
- Windows system administration, managing Active Directory, group policy and DNSsupporting multi-site environments.
- Management of VMware vSphere (including vCenter and ESXi) supporting multi-site environments.
- Configure and manage Linux/Windows operating system softwarewithin physical & ESXI virtual infrastructures as well as cloud based Virtual Machines (VMs). (In Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Management, coordination, and implementation of software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on Linux/Windows servers, workstations,leveraging tools such as WSUS, Satellite, BigFix.
- Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes.
- Identify issues and create improvement processes to help with the reduction of incident outage times.
- Develop and maintain O&M Standard Operating Procedures for developed capabilities.
- Write and edit scripts in Python, Perl, Powershell, Java, C,etc.
- Utilize JIRA in an Agile development environment.
- Support development and maintenance of automated testing.
Qualifications
- Active Public Trust clearance
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering/related field and 5-7 years’ experience or Master’sDegree and 3-5 years’ experience or high school diploma/equivalent and 9 years relevant experience. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
- Systems Administration experience administering user accounts, performing server subsystem configuration, network management, installation of software, performing backups, configuration management, and general system maintenance
- Windows system administration 2016/2019 Server, Active directory topology, DNS, GPO management
- Linux system administration RHEL 7 & 8 Server
- Understanding of fundamental networking and distributed computing environment concepts, Microsoft Windows and Linux desktop systems, performance tuning and capacity planning of servers (hardware and software levels)
- Experience with server ESXi VMWare virtualization methodologies
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
- Familiar with Systems Engineering processes
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Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
