System Administrator

System Administrator

Description

Dynetics group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, is seeking a talented System Administrator to join our Dayton, Ohio office. The candidate will join a diverse team primarily focused on the modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) of aerospace weapons, sensors, and related command-and-control entities.

The employee in this role will deploy, monitor, and sustain software services to help ensure secure, reliable, and uninterrupted availability. This challenging position requires a diverse set of technical and task management skills and allows for the opportunity to contribute immediately to important, meaningful work.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Monitor and maintain an enterprise services environment
• Perform configuration updates and maintenance activities to patch, secure, and maintain systems
• Respond to, and help resolve, issues that degrade system or network performance to minimize downtime
• Support local air-gapped networks
• Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure that hardware needs are met

Qualifications:

Candidate must have a minimum of 6years of relevant work experience or a Bachelors degree from an accredited institute with at least 2year of relevant work experience.

• Active DoD TS/SCI clearance
• DoD-8570 IAT Level 2 certification (Security+ CE) on hire date
• A working knowledge of both Windows and Linux-based information systems
• Basic understanding of networking concepts and principles: OSI, LAN/WAN, IPv4/IPv6
• Experience performing system administration tasks such as installing, maintaining, monitoring, recovering, rebuilding, upgrading, patching, etc.

Candidate must have strong written communication skills, possess good people skills, strong problem-solving skills, demonstrate strong attention to detail and have the ability to work with minimal supervision in the fulfillment of daily operations.

Candidate must be a resident of the Dayton, OH area or be willing to relocate to the Dayton, OH area.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with scripting tools/technologies: Python, Bash, Powershell, Perl, Batch
• Experience with automation tools: Ansible, Puppet
• Experience maintaining systems and services in an air-gapped environment
• Knowledge of security policies such as DISA STIGs and general vulnerability management
• Certifications with major system vendors such as Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware, etc.
• Experience with DevSecOps tools/concepts: Docker, Kubernetes, deployment pipelines, etc.

Security Requirements:

U.S. Citizenship and a current Final Top Secret/SSBI Clearance with SCI eligibility is required. Must possess active SCI clearance with current investigation (within last 4.5 years) and be able to maintain a Top Secret Clearance.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.