Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Serco provides services supporting defense, government, and commercial clients. The Systems Administrator/Azure Cloud Engineer will support the United States Navy and CNIC N6 program by managing physical and virtual server environments, hybrid cloud platforms, application hosting environments, security controls, backups, monitoring, disaster recovery, patching, and troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
- Support the installation, configuration, testing, maintenance and upgrade of physical and virtual servers, storage systems and virtualization platforms, and upgrade of hybrid cloud environments, including physical/virtual servers, storage systems, and cloud virtualization platforms
- Support the development, design, configuration/setup, test, maintenance and upgrade of the application hosting environment using virtualization application such as VMWare ESXi, Hyper-V or other applicable virtualization platform
- Support the various business application development effort and roll out through implementation, configuration/setup, test, maintenance and upgrade various application testing and or production environments
- Implement or apply all applicable Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), industry best security and design practices, and implement all applicable Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert (IAVA) security requirements
- Perform a regular back up of VMs’ Virtual Machine Disks (VMDK), and or any mounts used by VMs
- Install, configure, maintain, upgrade and administer an environment monitoring system or systems, to include the environment monitoring system’s database server application and log collector if applicable
- Develop, maintain and submit to the Government Technical representative physical and logical network infrastructure diagrams
- Perform a regular but scheduled failover or Disaster Recovery (DR) test to check the environment’s readiness in case of a failure or disaster
- Perform regular patching or upgrade of all operating systems and or firmware
- Troubleshoot and fix environment problems
Skills
- An active DoD Secret security clearance
- U.S Citizenship required
- An up to date DoD 8570.01-M Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level II and DoD 8140 Intermediate System Administrator baseline certification
- At least 1 current Operating System Certification from the list
- A Bachelor's degree with minimum 2 years of relevant experience
- OR an Associate's degree with minimum 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of BA Degree
- OR a High School Diploma with technical training related to Information Technology, Cyber Security, Computer Science, or related discipline with a minimum of 6 years of working knowledge and experience in IT particularly in installing, maintaining and troubleshooting virtualized environments with VMWare ESXi hypervisors, server blades, Windows Domain Controllers, Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2016, SQL Servers, Crystal Servers or IIS web servers in lieu of degree
- Associate Data Center Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate experience
- Working knowledge and experience with hardening systems
- Working knowledge and experience with ACAS, SCAP and HBSS
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel
- The ability to travel up to 10%
- Valid/Active U.S Passport
- RHEL certification and experience
- Working knowledge and experience with the RMF process
- VMware Certified
Benefits
- Eligible positions may include annual bonuses or long-term incentive opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for full-time employees; part-time employees receive a limited package tailored to their role.
- Robust vacation and sick leave benefits for full-time employees; part-time employees receive a limited package tailored to their role.
- Flexible work arrangements where permitted by role or contract.
- 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds.
- Tuition reimbursement program.
- Life insurance and disability coverage.
- Optional coverages that can be purchased, including pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, and ID theft protection.
- Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits.
- Employee Assistance Plan.
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