Senior Windows Systems Administrator

Job ID: 2400366 Location: PRINCETON, NJ, US Date Posted: 2024-01-08 Category:

Information Technology Subcategory: Sys Administrator Schedule: Full-time Shift:

Day Job Travel: No Minimum Clearance Required: None Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Public Trust Potential for Remote Work: No Description SAIC is seeking a Senior Windows Administrator to join our program as a general technologist to support our NOAA GFDL program in Princeton, NJ serving the NOAA GFDL lab in a highly scientific user and mission driven facility. This individual would support both projects (60%) and user (40%) actives in a high interrupt tiered support environment requiring rapid response to the most complex customer systems inquiries.

The environment consists of a Core Windows Infrastructure running on mostly Dell Hardware, with 200 Linux workstations, 50 Windows Workstations, and 20 Mac Workstations. On a daily basis this individual may divide their time between (1) managing Junior System Admins to support lower level issues; (2) identifying, evaluating and prioritizing customer problems to ensure that inquiries are resolved appropriately; (3) conducting project work on several complex system projects simultaneously; and (4) managing and actively reporting on project status; (5) setting technical infrastructure direction and offering suggestions to improve and further automate the environment; The ideal candidate must be an independent self-starter, be system agnostic, and adept at supporting Linux, Windows and Mac in a heterogeneous environment, where the Core Infrastructure is Windows, and have excellent customer facing communication and consultation skills (with managers and/or scientists). The duties will include, but not limited to: - Providing Mid-Tier to Top-Tier System Administration for client and server systems in heterogeneous environment, where the Core Infrastructure is Windows based; - System Administration – Maintain IT Security posture according to organization requirements, manage rigorous patching schedule for all system software and firmware, manage existing patching deployment tools, maintain and enhance current tools; - Maintain, monitor, support, and upgrade as needed the infrastructure environment, including the Windows Core Infrastructure, and lead enterprise base work initiatives and projects; - Support multiple systems or applications of medium to high complexity with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity and accessibility; - Work with project managers to coordinate and plan project tasks and resources; - Integration solutions with other applications and platforms based on requirements; - Maintain a monthly patch schedule for all workstations, servers, cluster, hypervisors, etc. - Coordinate changes across multiple systems; - Perform routine maintenance tasks for infrastructure systems as follows, but not limited to: o Highly available virtualization and database clusters; o Web server clusters; o File Share services (NFS/CIFS); o Multi-Tiered Public Key Infrastructure; o Virtual Desktop Infrastructure; - Working with engineers on the requirements and provides recommendations for improvements; - Recommend changes/enhancements for improved systems availability, reliability and performance; - Coordinates problem resolution among a variety of functional areas and provides subject matter expertise support for diagnosing and resolving problems; - Recommend and implement software or hardware changes to rectify problems or address improvement opportunities; - Ensure compliance with policies, procedures and standards; - Provide technical guidance, coaching/mentoring to team members; - Evaluate future technologies and makes recommendations for software and hardware upgrades; - Generate and validate IT system baselines, including validation of documentation; - Ensure IT system security basslines are met and security improvements are implemented across the server and client environment; - Generate processes to ensure appropriate user privileges and access are granted, ensuring data integrity and security is met; - Work with vendors and architects to understand their technology roadmaps; - Develop plans to adopt new technology; - Writing/updating/enhancing system documentation concerning problem resolutions and HPC assets; - Writing technical justifications for the procurement of hardware & software; - Reviewing system inventory/warranty, plan upgrades for client and server systems; Qualifications Bachelors Degree and 5 years of experience is preferred, or 8 years of experience in lieu of degree Experience with medium to large server/data center environment; Experience working with Hypervisors, chassis, blade servers, and Production Cluster; Automation and Load Balancing Experience; Experience with CAC authentication solutions such as Centrify in an Active Directory Environment; Experience managing and maintaining virtualization cluster preferably Ovirt and Hyper-V; Experience managing and maintaining Active Directory; Experience managing and maintaining database clusters, preferably Microsoft SQL cluster and Percona XtraDB/MySQL cluster; Experience with system deployment, SW deployment and configuration management solutions: Ansible (most desired), Powershell (most desired), Satellite/Foreman/Spacewalk, Puppet, Symantec ITMS, Microsoft SCVMM; Experience developing/diagnosing automation scripts (Ansible, Powershell); In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Server/Client, and Redhat/CentOS Operating systems, and have experience developing security baselines; Knowledge of building systems for clients and servers; and knowledge of different classes of system architecture; Experience managing VDI infrastructure; preferably Microsoft VDI solution; Understanding of licensing structures for Microsoft and RedHat products; Experience with CI/CD pipelines; Experience with configuration and support of access methods e.g.

VPN, SSH tunneling; Experience with Backup solutions such as Bacula and or Veritas NetBackup; Keeping up-to-date with current hardware/software events/releases Experience managing and maintaining software scalable network file systems, and centralized storage appliances; Experience managing, and support Active Directory with smart card authentication infrastructure; Must have a strong automation experience, software deployment, and configuration management solutions for multiple environments; US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance. Desired Qualifications: Bachelors Degree in a STEM related field and 5 years of experience 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.