Senior Systems Administrator (CO)

Job Title:
SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Company: Arrow Alliance Industries, LLC (Norman, OK)

Location(s):
(Reston, VA or Denver, CO)

Job Description:

Arrow Alliance Industries is currently seeking a highly qualified Senior Systems Administrator

interested in joining our team of professionals to provide support to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).

The Senior Systems Administrator will bring extensive knowledge and experience in systems administration in configuring and tuning of systems (including: Windows, Oracle, SQL, Microsoft Hyper-V, PowerShell scripting and Linux servers) for the NPS Data Centers. The contractor will also bring extensive knowledge and expertise in regard to enterprise SQL and database systems for government data centers. The database experience will range from failover clustering, storage management, patch management, user permission security, and instance creation.

The Senior Systems Administrator shall apply this knowledge in providing system administration support across all supported systems and environments including servers, databases, network devices, and storage components. The supported environments include production, disaster recovery, test, and development.

Responsibilities:

• Create and implement scripts in an enterprise environment to include scripting for:
  • Hyper-V administration
  • Failover cluster administration
  • Windows server administration
  • Unix/Linux/Ubuntu administration
• Manage virtual machines to include,
  • Creating, configuring, and maintaining virtual machines in a failover cluster environment
  • Automating where possible the creation and management of virtual machines
• Plan, configure, and maintain hyper-converge infrastructure according to manufacture and industry best practices

• Create automation for repeating system administration tasks
• Assist in Tier 1/2/3 support issues
• Create and maintain well written and easy-to-understand documentation for new and existing system processes and configurations with minimal oversight
• Plan, configure, and maintain Dell SAN arrays in accordance with vendor best practices
• Install, configure, and maintain Windows server, hardware, operating systems and features in accordance with vendor best practices
• Install, configure, and maintain Linux and Oracle hardware, operating systems, and features in accordance with vendor best practices.
• Create technical documentation to include but not limited to Service Level Agreements, As-Is, To-Be, and Continuity of Operations/Disaster Recovery with minimal oversight.
• Recommend and provide technical expertise and assistance with planning, configuring, and implementing new technologies related to storage, compute, and backup technologies.
• Configure and maintain backup technologies to include backup software, reporting, LTO tape libraries, backup to disks, and backup to cloud integration.
• Provide In-depth knowledge with cloud technology, design, implementation, and remote management
• Assist with the implementation of the necessary defined security controls as they relate to the current infrastructure in accordance with the government Cyber Security Assessment and Management (CSAM) systems.
• Assess outcomes of vulnerability scanning to include the development and implementation of corrective actions to remediate vulnerabilities as defined by the Government (if corrective action cannot be taken due to system requirements, the contractor shall provide sound reasoning to the ISSO for the development of the risk acceptance or Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) documentation
• Perform adding, modifying, and deleting access rights granted to system and application users of the information system
• Assess the new system or application requirements for security implications
• Perform patch management and vulnerability for physical and virtual machines and firmware updates for physical servers
• Perform routine backups of failover SQL cluster
• Perform routing storage management for failover SQL cluster
• Assist in Tier 1/2/3 support issues
• Perform patch management and vulnerability mitigation of failover SQL cluster nodes and SQL software
• Perform instance creation/modifications
• Perform user management (create/delete/ modify/quotas)
• Design, configure, implement, and maintain failover SQL cluster hardware and software configurations per manufacturer and industry best practice

Experience Required:

• A minimum of 1 year of related technical experience in supporting
• Information Technology environment at the server/data center level.
• Support may include (but not limited to): backup and recovery of Data Operations Center (DOC), systems, patching of systems, providing Tier II/III support to lower tiers, performance tuning, hardware and software upgrades, operational configurations, resource optimization, etc.
• Ability to support Microsoft and Linux Operating systems.
• Knowledge of other Microsoft Products used to manage an enterprise operation.
• Knowledge of VMWare.
• Experience in industry standard data center physical security tools and applications.
• Knowledge of DCIM and tools used.
• Basic knowledge of Visual Basic, .NET, C#, PowerShell and other programming/scripting languages.
• Ability to develop project management documentation.
• Excellent interdepartmental communication skill (written, verbal, presentations).
• Ability to work without guidance and the ability to resolve highly complex problems.
• Ability to lead projects.
• Serves as SME for a Shared Services Enterprise Datacenter information technology projects.

Education:

• Associate's Degree
• Certificate from technical training institute or
• combination of education and experience.