Systems Administrator
Company: SAIC
Location: Arlington
Posted on: May 12, 2022
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Job Description:
*Description**SAIC* is looking for a *Principal Systems
Administrator* in in their Chantilly, VA location.The Principal
Systems Administrator is a crucial part of SAIC s mission to
deliver leading solutions, capabilities, and resources to our
customers in the Department of Defense. As a subject matter expert
in the fields of classified IT operations and system
administration, you will join a team of high performing system
administrators in our mission to operate, maintain, and support a
wide range of technologies, missions, and solutions for SAIC and
our customers. Candidates should be Windows Server subject matter
experts with extensive experience engineering, managing,
maintaining, troubleshooting, and remediating Windows Servers and
the networks they reside upon. Industry certification is not
required, but the ideal candidate will display an engineer s
understanding of enterprise level Windows domains. Linux experience
is desired but not required. Note: As this position supports
classified networks almost exclusively, it is primarily on-site.
*What our team does:** Secures, maintains, operates, and supports
myriad accredited systems supporting SAIC overhead functions,
programs, and solutions. * Proactively addresses requests,
remediates issues, and identifies opportunities to ensure security
compliance, ensuring that functional requirements are met and
business objectives are achieved.* Works with colleagues throughout
the SAIC, including technical support personnel, analysts,
administrators, engineers, managers, and corporate officers to
maintain continuous awareness of changing requirements, balancing
priorities as necessary.* Provides support using ITIL and other
standard life-cycle / system management processes e.g.
Configuration/Change Management, Vendor/Supplier management,
Resource/Capacity plans, and others as needed to affect
forward-looking planning and management of the systems/operation of
the business.* Collaborates together to share effective solutions
to common problems, identify opportunities, recognize each other,
and contribute to the success of the team as a whole.*What you ll
do:* * Provide technical and operational excellence: Maintain
world-class IT Infrastructure operations of assigned/designated
work locations and networks, provides monitoring, diagnosing, and
troubleshooting of network firewalls, switches, routers, VoIP
Phones and other associated network hardware and software and
supplies infrastructure support for other IT-related services, e.g.
AV and VTC, as required.* Provide continuous Assurance: Maintain
full awareness of Security, Regulatory, and Corporate
policies/compliance requirements, interpreting and managing
implementations of technology in support of those controls.
Performs and provides proactive assessments and testing/validation
of controls against requirements (self-auditing) as needed.*
Collaborate and Inform: Actively participate and lead coordination,
execution, and/or support activities with stakeholders, partners,
and teammates to ensure awareness and the effectiveness of change
control activities, risk reviews, and assessment activities.*
Foster growth & innovation: Identifies areas requiring product or
process improvement, engages with team members to design,
implement, and verify improvement efforts (e.g. upgrades and
hardware or software engineering change orders resulting in the
desired performance improvement/compliance mitigation), applies
your knowledge and experience to benefit the development of
teammates and other peers.*Qualifications**Required Education,
Experience, & Skills:** At least ten (10) years of experience
managing enterprise level Windows Server forests. * Bachelors and
nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or
more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
OR Experience in liue of degree.* Administering and managing
networks comprised of Windows servers, workstations, thin clients,
and network devices, preferably in a Department of Defense /
federal agency context.* Managing and maintaining identity and
authentication solutions including Active Directory (including
Group Policy management) and LDAP solutions generally. *
Configuring and maintaining PKI and Multi-factor authentication
solutions.* Applying Department of Defense and DISA security
settings (STIGS) to Windows servers and workstations to ensure
compliance with security requirements.*Experience: ** Managing
Windows networks containing non-Windows servers, workstations, and
network devices, preferably in a DoD / federal agency context. *
Applying Risk Management Framework (RMF) processes and NIST 80053
implementations in secure environments.* Reviewing, understanding,
and implementing network and security protocols and methods (i.e.
802.1x, DHCP, VLANs, Firewalls, IPSEC/TLS, et al) and the
interactions between these and desired solutions.*Familiarity
with:** Securing and managing VMWare hypervisors and converged
architecture, backups, and data protection/controls.* Basic Linux
operation and commands.*Certification & Clearance Requirements**
IAT-III Level Certification (CASP+,CISSP, GCIH) or the ability to
obtain an IAT-III certification within 90 days * Active Top Secret
clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI*Desired Qualifications,
Preferences:** Agile Friendly: Familiar and comfortable with Agile
methods (scrum/kanban), Agile work management platforms, and ITIL
principles.* Communication & Presentation skills: Experienced and
comfortable collecting, maintaining, and presenting information
relevant to teams including Management, Stakeholders, Customers,
and others including both Localized and Enterprisewide posture and
readiness information e.g. Heatmaps, Dashboards, and Scorecards.*
Depth of Security Knowledge: Specialized certifications including
but not limited to DOD Information Technology Security
Certification and Accreditation Process (DITSCAP) or DOD
Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process
(DIACAP), ISSEP.* Forward looking: Experienced with Cloud platform
services in IL-5 or higher providers (e.g. AWS/Azure GovClouds) a
plus* Collaborative: Comfortable working with and seeking
out/engaging with others in-person, over standard collaboration
platforms like Zoom/Teams including appearing on video (where
permitted), and over the phone. Covid Policy: SAIC does not require
COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination
requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer
site.
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