Systems Administrator

As one of the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT providers, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our 22,000 employees “Do The Can’t Be Done”, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

Peraton’s National Programs Business Intelligence Systems & Applications Operating Unit has a need for an experienced DevOps Systems Engineer to support its SITE III JIOC contract charged with the orchestration, sustainment, and evolution of a portfolio of applications that focus on Collection Management, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and intelligence operations that directly support intelligence analysts, operations, and collection managers across the Combatant Commands.  The SITE III JIOC contract is designed to establish and ensure a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National apparatus of Defense Intelligence, Combatant Commands, supporting Partner Nations and other Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate Joint Intelligence Operations (JIOC) collection, correlation and dissemination.  Our support team applies best practices in architecture design, data science, cloud services, DevSecOps and platform integration to develop, sustain and continually evolve the enterprise business systems environment, systems integration, and back-end business process workflows.

Position Description: Maintains smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network engineers. Monitors and manages system resources, including CPU usage, disk usage, and response times to maintain operating efficiency. Performs systems security administration functions, including creating user profiles and accounts.  Provides Tier 3 problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems.  Configure operating systems.  Other duties may include setting up administrator accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software, applications/operating systems hardening, and allocating mass storage space. Interacts with users and evaluates vendor products. Makes recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinates installation and provides backup recovery. Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources. 

Requires BS 10-12, MS 8-10, Phd 5-7

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and participation in an attractive bonus plan.

Required Qualifications:

• Requires Bachelor's degree with 10 or more years of relevant experience.  Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• A minimum 2 year of experience with systems administration, including Linux or CentOS
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to anticipate problems & take decisive action
• Experience maintaining applications built on a PostgreSQL or Oracle database.
• Experience writing scripts to monitor system services, resources, data mine logs, etc.
• Writing SQL and PL/SQL to generate system data reports, modify data as necessary, etc.
• Experience with Keytool and OpenSSL
• Familiarity w/troubleshooting Java & Oracle applications
• XML Proficiency
• DoD 8570 Compliant holding current IAT level II baseline certification (Security+ CE, GICSP, SSCP, etc.)
• Experience maintaining systems in cloud environments
• Experience working with Firewalls and AWS Security Groups 

Desired Qualifications:

• Linux+ certification
• Current RHCSA/RHCE certification
• Current polygraph
• Microsoft MCSA
• VMware Certified Professional
• Knowledge of SQL Servers

Peraton 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 and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.