Apex Systems
## Job Description# Intermediate Systems AdministratorApex Systems is seeking an ***Intermediate Systems Administrator***to work in our ***Quantico, VA***office.Apex Systems is looking to hire an **Intermediate Systems Administrator** to join our team on a **direct-hire/permanent basis.*** Provides full system sustainment functions, system administration, including configuration management, patch deployment, account creation, log monitoring, and security compliance across all CIMS environments.* Coordinates closely with the Help Desk team to resolve escalated user access issues and supports Change Advisory Board (CAB) processes to ensure alignment with release schedules and security protocols.* Ensures CIMS environments remain secure, available, and properly configured to meet mission needs.* Responsible for maintaining operating system servers in support of business processing requirements.* Performs software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages.* Schedules installations, upgrades, and maintains them in accordance with* government standards.* Monitors and tunes the systems to achieve optimum performance levels. Ensures server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions.* Ensures data/media recoverability by implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations.* Maintains accounts, network rights, and access to systems and equipment.* Manages system/server resources including performance, capacity,* availability, serviceability and recoverability while monitoring and* maintaining system/server configuration.* Conducts periodic system maintenance including clearing (both physically and electronically), disk checks, routine reboots, data dumps, and testing. Installs, implements, and configures support of system components.* Complies with government systems administration standard operating procedures and implements and enforces local network usage policies and procedures.* ***Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline with 5+ years of experience in system administration, or Associate’s degree with 7+ years of experience.**** Must possess IAT Level II certification and experience with Windows/Linux enterprise environments.* Requires knowledge of cybersecurity principles, computer networking* concepts, protocols, network security methodologies, risk management* framework, cyber threats and vulnerabilities, and performance tuning* tools and techniques.* Possess skills in monitoring, optimizing system/server performance, operating system administration (account maintenance, data backups, system performance, installation and configuration of new hardware/software).* Knowledge of virtualization technologies, virtual machine development and maintenance, system administration, network and operating system hardening techniques.* RedHat, Linux, Azure or equivalent certification is required
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