Lead System Administrator
Job Description
Title:
Lead System Administrator
KBR is seeking a highly skilled system administrator to provide technical expertise to implement strategies, evaluate products, and build/manage an infrastructure that supports the GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement) Mission Operations Control Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md.
In this role, you will work with complex systems, designing, developing, and integrating them at every stage of its life cycle. If you're reliable in delivering mission-critical infrastructure with an eye toward accessibility, optimization, and security, we'd like to hear from you.
***This position will be up to 24 hours per week****
Objectives of this Role:
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities
Required Education, Experience, & Skills:
Preferred Qualifications
In compliance with the U.S. federal government's vaccine mandate, only candidates who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or have a reasonable accommodation or approved medical exception will be considered for this position.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Lead System Administrator
KBR is seeking a highly skilled system administrator to provide technical expertise to implement strategies, evaluate products, and build/manage an infrastructure that supports the GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement) Mission Operations Control Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md.
In this role, you will work with complex systems, designing, developing, and integrating them at every stage of its life cycle. If you're reliable in delivering mission-critical infrastructure with an eye toward accessibility, optimization, and security, we'd like to hear from you.
***This position will be up to 24 hours per week****
Objectives of this Role:
- Manage and monitor all infrastructure and system installations, including configurations, testing, and maintenance
- Implement and maintain backups, security, and redundancy strategies
- Identify potential issues and integrate possible solutions
- Craft custom scripts, reducing requirement of human interaction
- Engage with upper management regularly with reports on project status, activities, and achievements
- Support OS upgrades and security patching
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities
- Communicate with stakeholders to identify what they want a system to accomplish
- Use expert-level administration and optimization of hosts and servers to ensure high availability and appropriate resource management
- Standardize and automate processes and monitoring using scripting technology
- Install and configure operating systems, software, and hardware components, and clearly document the design, maintenance, and support procedures for routine tasks to leverage IT support staff
- Routinely test software for bugs, redundancies, and security issues
- Conduct high-level root-cause analysis for service interruption and establish preventive measures
- Create reports and documentation outlining findings and solutions; oversee the overall backup strategy and daily operations for secure backups and restore testing
Required Education, Experience, & Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in technology or computer science or equivalent work experience
- 10 + experience as a System Administrator
- Basic understanding of cloud technologies
- Experience with or knowledge of programming languages and operating systems; current equipment and technologies, enterprise backup and recovery procedures, system performance-monitoring tools, active directories, virtualization, HTTP traffic, content delivery, and caching
- Expertise in creating, analyzing, and repairing large-scale distributed systems
- Ability to pass Public Trust background check
Preferred Qualifications
- Innovative mindset
- Technical documentation skills
- Ansible experience
- Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Strong Linux and Windows background
- Understanding of networking technologies (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)
In compliance with the U.S. federal government's vaccine mandate, only candidates who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or have a reasonable accommodation or approved medical exception will be considered for this position.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Date Posted
10/15/2022
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