Systems Administrator

Job Location: Onsite – Arlington, VA

Job Type: Full time, 10% travel

Salary Target: $160,000 - $170,000

Minimum Clearance: US Citizen holding an active Top Secret/SCI clearance

Xenith Solutions is a small mission-focused business serving Federal / Civilian, Defense and Intelligence organizations with superior service. If you want to be a part of a rapidly growing business with an exceptional culture, then you want to be a part of the Xenith Solutions family.

Xenith Solutions is seeking a Systems Administrator to join our team in support of a government contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) focused on the Joint Fires Network (JFN).

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled Systems Administrator to join our team and provide essential development and support to strategic initiatives.

Required Qualifications:

• • Minimum 5 years’ system administration experience (server and desktop security implementation and management and software development IT infrastructure setup and management)

• • Knowledge of U.S. Government computers, networks, and security

• • Past experience administering server-side technology and networked computing systems.

• • Ability to prioritize a wide range of workloads with critical deadlines.

Duties and Responsibilities, but not limited to:

• • Responsible for asset installation/configuration, operation and maintenance of systems hardware, software, and related infrastructure.

• • Configure and manage operating systems (Windows and Linux), applications (commercial and government), networks (IPs, subnets, etc.), and network equipment (switches)

• • Configure and manage DOD and IC standard distributed authentication services

• • Build up systems from "bare metal" in alignment with accredited baselines

• • Ensure that system hardware, operating systems, software systems and related procedures adhere to government policies.

• • Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.

• • Perform daily backup operations.

• • Perform regular file archival and purge, as necessary.

• • Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.

• • Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades and resource optimization, as required.

• • Repair and recover from hardware or software failures for multiple sites.

• • Establishes, documents, and monitor the government’s cyber security program implementation plan.

• • Maintain facility video distribution system and displays.

• • All other tasks and duties as assigned

• • Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

• • • Patient and professional demeanor, with a can-do attitude.

• • Familiarity with DNS / DHCP / Kickstart / LDAP / Kubernetes / Red Hat 7&8 / Windows 10 / ACAS / Rancher / Grafana / Cloud Security Gateway

• • Maintain and create system documentation.

• • Willingness to learn new technologies.

• • Ability to surge hours worked through events

• • Able to create simple scripts (i.e. powershell or bash)

• • Ability to automate installation, configuration, and provisioning using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.

• • Ability to configure and manage operating systems (Windows and Linux), applications (commercial and government), networks (IPs, subnets, etc.), and network equipment (switches)

• • Ability to configure and manage DOD and IC standard distributed authentication services

• • Advantageous to have knowledge of DOD and IC network infrastructures

• • Knowledge of Joint IO Range, Defense Research and Engineering Network, and other similar environments beneficial

• • Cybersecurity Management Certification (CISSP, CISM), Cybersecurity IAT-2 level Technical Certification (Security+, GSEC, etc.)

• • Risk Management Framework (RMF) accreditation experience