Job Description
Job Description
Security Clearance: Active TS clearance, SCI eligible.
Location: Linthicum Heights, MD
Job Type: Full-Time
Target Salary Range*: $115,000 - $135,000.
*This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintains smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network engineers.
- Monitors and manages system resources, including CPU usage, disk usage, and response times to maintain operating efficiency.
- Performs systems security administration functions, including creating user profiles and accounts.
- Other duties may include setting up administrator accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space.
- Interacts with users and evaluates vendor products.
- Makes recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinates installation and provides backup recovery.
- Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.
- Ability to implement, maintain, and manage physical and virtual systems and upgrades.
- May assign responsibilities for less experienced staff.
- Manage and maintain hardware and back-end software to support end users.
- Support multiple centralized anti-virus and patch management systems.
Qualifications:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience, or Master’s Degree and 6+ years of experience, or 3 years with PhD. A degree must be in one of the following fields: Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Cybersecurity. In lieu of a degree in one of these fields of study, 4 years of additional relevant experience or specialized training may be considered.
Experience:
- Experience building and deploying physical and virtual servers.
- Active Directory Domain and Forest Design, Implementation, and Management.
- Strong familiarity with Group Policy Objects (GPOs).
- User and group management.
- PowerShell Scripting and Windows domain services.
- DoD security hardening (STIG/SCAP).
- DNS configuration and troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with Network Security Principles (Firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Prevention).
- A strong understanding of VMWare with the ability to install, configure, manage, and troubleshoot.
- A strong understanding of Omnissa Horizon with the ability to configure, deploy and troubleshoot.
- Familiarity with Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), RAID configurations and file system management.
- Familiarity with backup technologies.
- Familiarity with ACAS, Splunk, and SolarWinds.
Certifications:
- Active CompTIA Security+ certification (must upload a copy of the certification).
Preferred Qualifications:
- RHEL Administration Experience
- CI/CD automation (Ansible/Teraform)
- Cloud services (Azure/AWS)
- Disaster recovery planning and execution
- Gitlab
- Trellix
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Desired Certifications:
- CASP+
- CCNP Security
- CCSP
- FITSP-O
- GFACT