Cyber Systems Administrator

Peraton’s Space and Intelligence Sector is seeking a driven Cyber Systems Administrator to join our dynamic in Landover, MD.

Our program provides full life cycle support for a large Information Technology (IT) system for the Department of Defense (DoD). This program delivers full life-cycle engineering support for all system elements including Development (hardware, software and networks), Systems and Security Engineering (Integration, testing and Deployment), Sustainment (Logistics, and field support), Network Operations Center (NOC)/Help Desk, and Government user training support for user community.

The ideal candidate will possess experience with NAS and SAN technologies and administering VMWare and ESXi 5.0 or later.

The Cyber System Administrator will be responsible for but not limited to:

• Maintains smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network administrators. 
• Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.
• Make recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinates installation and provides backup recovery. 
• Interacts with users and evaluates vendor products. 
• Installing, configuring and maintaining Oracle Sun Server X4 Series, x86 and including virtualized servers.
• Perform regular day-to-day Systems Administration activities such as User Administrations, Disk Management, Package Install, Patch Management, Storage Management, NFS Administration and disaster recovery/fail-over.
• Identify, analyze, fix, and determine root cause, follow-up and coordinate changes to resolve complex problems involving hardware, software, networking and applications.  
• Ensure backups are completed successfully.  
• Perform backup restores from NAS and tape for system users.  
• Monitor and ensure adequate security for hosts and provide access control for file systems.  
• VMWare: Assist in maintenance of virtualized server environment.  
• Create and configure hosts and VMs and allocate corresponding system resources as required.  
• Maintain and patch existing hosts and VMs using VMWare COTS product.  
• Application Administration: Support a variety of server and desktop COTS, agents, and GOTS applications.  

Additional Duties:

• Maintain operational procedures and guides and create tickets to document all break/fix incidents.
• Ancillary duties may include setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space. 

**This position is Monday – Friday 3rd Shift (Night Shift) 11pm – 7am (flexible by 1-2hrs)**

**This program does allow for a flexible work schedule and is walking distance from a Metro station**

Required Qualifications:  

• An active Top Secret Security Clearance with SCI eligibility is required. Ability to obtain and maintain a Polygraph is required.
• A Bachelor's degree with five (5+) years of related experience in systems administration; or an Associates degree with seven (7+) years of related experience; or a High-school Diploma/GED with nine (9+) years of applicable work experience may be substituted in lieu of degree requirements.
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in administration; implementing and troubleshooting within UNIX environment.
• A current/valid Security+ Certification, or equivalent.
• Experience with NAS and SAN technologies.
• Experience in administering VMWare and ESXi 5.0 or later.
• Ability and willingness to work shift work.

Desired Qualifications:  

• An active Top Secret Security Clearance with SCI eligibility and polygraph.
• Environmental Certification (Linux+, Oracle Certified Professional, Solaris 10 System Administrator).
• Familiarity with COTS products like Mac OS X, Oracle 11g r2, Veeam, Atlassian Confluence.  
• Possess the ability to read shell scripts.
• Special consideration would be given to individuals’ direct PDAS knowledge.
• Experience supporting a 24x7 Network Operation Center.

Salary Range Estimates:

The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Peraton's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Peraton provides a variety of benefits to employees.

Benefits:

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.

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.