System Administrator III - 1920 - KeyLogic Systems

Position: System Administrator III
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Salary Range: $82,900 - $92,900 per year
Clearance: Active Q Clearance Required

This is a System Administrator III position within an embedded IT support team which provides support on a stand-alone and classified network within a world class Department of Energy laboratory.  The organization’s overall mission is to provide consistency of regulatory requirements - interpretation and implementation; application of "minimum requirements and best practices" to the center laboratories; and to support initiatives to improve the safety and security of the center workers and lab operations.  This team provides mostly Microsoft Windows support to their customer base and travels to our Kauai facility on a quarterly basis to offer technical support for our customer’s test environment. 

Responsibilities:

• Provide server and desktop Windows support to our customer base.
• Virtualization of servers and desktop machines on the stand alone and classified networks
• Hardware troubleshooting (desktops, servers, IoT devices, printers)
• Inventory management at remote site
• Software support for customer specific COTS and in house created applications.
• Checking logs, hardening systems against STIGS, and other security related tasks
• Working with vendors when issues cannot be solved in house and for warrantee work.
• Server installations and decommissions.
• Working in high stress environment when at remote test location (this is a quarterly duty rotated amongst the team members).

Qualifications:

• Education/Experience – BA/BS in IT Related field plus 2 years of IT experience
• Must be a US Citizenship
• Active U.S. Department of Energy Q security clearance 

Required Skills:

• Windows/Linux system administration experience for at least 2 years with the following skills:
• End-User Application Support
• System Setup
• Account Management
• File services
• Network Configuration
• Application Hosting
• Familiarity with Firewall technology & management of private network(s)
• VMWare or other virtualization experience
• Ability to effectively collaborate with other IT professionals
• Ability to work well in a collaborative team environment 

Desired Skills:

• Server room management (e.g. - power, cooling, cabling, racking)
• Experience with quality assurance testing
• Experience in Virtual/Cloud Deployments
• Developing scripts for automating services tasks