Systems Administrator - Mid Level

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 Systems Administrator to support its SITE III DO contract charged with the orchestration, sustainment, and evolution of a portfolio of mission critical applications and services supporting a major Directorate within the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). The SITE III DO 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 Human Intelligence (HUMINT) 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 global U.S. human intelligence apparatus and supporting partners.

What you'll do:

The Systems Administrator – Mid Level will be responsible for the following, but not limited to:

• Maintain smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network engineers.
• Monitor and manage system resources, including CPU usage, disk usage, and response times to maintain operating efficiency.
• Perform systems security administration functions, including creating user profiles and accounts.
• Provide Tier 1 and Tier 2 problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems.
• Configure Unix, Linux and Windows operating systems

Other duties may include:

• Setting up administrator accounts
• Maintaining system documentation
• Tuning system performance
• Installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space
• Interacting with users and evaluating vendor products
• Make recommendations to purchase hardware and software
• Coordinate installation and provide backup recovery
• Develop and monitor policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources

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 in related field of study with 8 or more years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree. 8 to 10 years with BS/BA or 6 to 8 years with MS/MA or 3 to 5 years with PhD.
• TS/SCI with ability to pass a polygraph
• Security+ or other IAT II/III level certification that is currently active
• Linux (CentOS, RHEL, or Oracle) or Windows
• Performing snapshots, disaster recovery, performance tuning
• Installation, STIG hardening, patching
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and Tier 1 communication skills
• Experience developing and maintaining critical documentation (SIPs, SAGs, SOPs, Getting started guides)
• Full time work in a SCIF is required, but hours are flexible

Desired qualifications:

• Experience working with Agile scrum teams
• Cloud (EC2s, S3, Elasticache), Kafka, Openshift, Docker, Keycloak, Wildfly
• PKI certificates, SSL, service accounts
• Maintaining multiple environment types (physical, virtual, cloud)
• Active TS/SCI w/Poly

Benefits:

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We’re fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way.

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.