Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Peraton is a national security company and enterprise IT provider delivering mission-focused solutions and technologies to government agencies and the U.S. armed forces. The Systems Administrator will remotely maintain, secure, monitor, and optimize multi-user UNIX-based computer systems, coordinate with network engineers and users, manage software and hardware resources, and support system deployments and documentation.
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
- Handle the replacement of certificates in the infrastructure
- Be able to STIG configure and patch all our components
- Ability to assist with developing procedural and technical documentation
- Ability to follow project plans (system migrations and software release upgrade)
- Ability to work evening and weekend hours on a rotational basis for production deployments, take support calls/JIRA for Test/MO help
Skills
- Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD
- U.S. Citizenship
- Ability to obtain Public Trust or higher (Secret, Top Secret clearance)
- Security+ certification is required, must be current
- Hands-on experience with the UNIX operating system as a Systems Administrator; preference is that the experience be with Solaris but any Unix OS experience is acceptable. Experience must include system startup/shutdown, backups, vulnerability management, and Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) product upgrading/loading/troubleshooting
- Handle the replacement of certificates in the infrastructure
- Be able to STIG configure and patch all our components
- Ability to assist with developing procedural and technical documentation
- Ability to follow project plans (system migrations and software release upgrade)
- Ability to work evening and weekend hours on a rotational basis for production deployments, take support calls/JIRA for Test/MO help
- UNIX System Administrator certification is preferred
- Experience working with middleware products such as WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Redhat JBoss-EAP, and Java is preferred
- Experience in supporting software developers in development environments
- Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills
- Knowledge of UNIX and web-related security postures, skills and best-practices
- Must be able to effectively articulate complex, technical concepts to on-site clients, non-technical management and co-contractors
- Must demonstrate a strong sense of self-motivation and direction
- A team player
- Understanding of application development lifecycle processes is a plus
- Common office software skills (Word, Excel, Visio)
- Strong motivation to make a difference
- Familiarity with Department of Defense personnel security issues is a plus
- Above and Beyond: Hardware Security Module, Log4js2, Audit Logging, Key Management
Benefits
- Remote work allowed 100%
- Employees may be eligible for overtime in addition to base pay.
- Employees may be eligible for shift differential in addition to base pay.
- Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
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