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Leidos

Network Systems Administrator

Leidos, Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, United States

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The Digital Modernization Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Network Systems Administrator/Engineer to work at our Stennis Space Center, MS customer site location. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience supporting the HEITS/DHS mission. This position would be responsible for maintaining the virtualized Windows and Linux servers and applications within the Hyper-V and physical server environments. The position is a self-lead role designed to assist maintenance of all core service applications not only to work incidents and outages, but to also assist with deployment/extension of the core service engineering team as an Operations liaison on all enclaves. The ideal candidate will have experience with Hyper-V virtualization technologies and related technologies such as clustering, storage, and networking. Additionally, the candidate should have experience working with additional enterprise applications, deploying/patching virtual machines and enterprise applications, and managing storage solutions. Primary Responsibilities

Ensure day-to-day operations of the production environment.

Assist with monitoring and maintaining all physical and virtualized environments.

Monitor and communicate the need for optimization performance changes, ensuring high availability, and supporting various technologies to meet customer requirements.

Must demonstrate knowledge of and ability to apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts using Microsoft Hyper-V; Hyper-Converged Storage; Microsoft Server; Domain Controllers; and Active Directory Services.

Should demonstrate knowledge and experience with storage technologies such as storage area networks (SAN), network-attached Storage and hyper-converged storage.

Support new technical solutions and systems to meet customer requirements.

Responsible for creating and maintaining detailed documentation of operational designs and procedures.

Demonstrate day-to-day adherence with change management precepts and practices and is responsible for writing Change Requests and seeking approval.

Troubleshoot and resolve unique or complex problems in an efficient manner.

Prepare clear and timely technical documentation that explains recommended/required actions.

Interface directly with the client and parallel teams when necessary.

Apply DISA STIGs and resolve security vulnerabilities.

Support operational transition of enterprise solutions into production.

Available for on-call support and virtualization engineering expertise when operational issues or outages are escalated (as necessary)

Basic Qualifications

Must currently possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI Clearance

BS degree and 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience; additional experience in lieu of degree accepted.

Minimum of 10 years of relevant IT work experience.

Proficient understanding of virtualization environments such as Hyper-V technology and VMware VCenter in a hyper converged environment

Strong knowledge of virtualization infrastructure design, implementation, and maintenance

Hands-on experience implementing DoD STIG requirements and patch and update/vulnerability mitigation

Strong troubleshooting skills with Microsoft and Linux OS environments

Hands-on experience with reviewing system logs and events to resolve issues

Demonstrated analytical approach to solve complex problems in a large-scale, and multi datacenter environment.

Experienced with creating and managing critical system work instruction and Standard Operating Procedure documentation.

Experience with creating and managing Active Directory, Group Policy Objects, MS Server Operating systems

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with scripting using PowerShell, Python or similar scripting languages

Experience with SQL/PostgreSQL databases

Experience using Windows Clustering

Experience using NetApp products

Government Operations experience

Experience deploying and maintaining Windows and Linux servers and enterprise applications

BS degree and 10 years of prior relevant experience

Come break things (in a good way). Then build them smarter. We're the tech company everyone calls when things get weird. We don’t wear capes (they’re a safety hazard), but we do solve high-stakes problems with code, caffeine, and a healthy disregard for “how it’s always been done.”

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