Sr. Systems Administrator (Ops 24x7 Support) Day Shift
Overview:
Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Sr. Systems Administrator (Ops 24x7 Support) Day Shift on a 10 year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer. All the personnel on the team will work together to support innovative design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operations, sustainment and disposal of user facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains, at multiple locations worldwide, to support the IC mission.
The right candidate will possess the below skills and qualifications and be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.
Responsibilities:
- Conducts real-time, pro-active monitoring of all compute and local area networking resources within the data centers (including Virtual Infrastructure, data center LAN, virtual servers, Storage solutions, databases) across multiple sites.
- Identifies, analyzes, responds, triages, and troubleshoots/resolves system alerts indicating issues with data center components.
- Conducts hands-on administration of virtual machines, hosts, and devices via vCenter, remote desktop protocols, and other virtualized management interfaces. Administration consists of, but is not limited to: assessing all virtual resources, consoling into virtual machines, creating/deleting virtual snapshots, fully triaging virtual server issues, and restarting virtual machines.
- Supports diagnoses and troubleshooting of problems/issues with the virtualization environment including Microsoft Windows and Linux O/S systems.
- Provides systems diagnostics and availability monitoring and reporting/escalation services
- Performs incident capture, verification, diagnostics and escalation
- Within established procedures, responds to end user requests for technical support and assistance.
- Provides first response for all associated, technical engineering lanes within the data center
- Manages, record and tracks compute configuration changes as approved by Configuration Change Control Boards
- Creates and maintains standard operating procedures and operational reporting protocol for the purpose of communicating system and network health with upper management, government customers, mission partners, ASPs, and agency executives.
- Interacts with vendors to coordinate the maintenance and replacement of hardware that effects high and critical systems and environments
- Maintains extremely accurate, high level reporting of all issues
- Maintains current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned.
****Shift Hours: Sundays- Wednesdays (alt) (5:30AM - 5:30PM)****
Qualifications:
Clearance Required:TS/SCI with ability to pass CI Poly
Degree and Years of Experience: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.- 5-8 years of directly related experience in systems administration of preferably Windows and Linux OS systems.
- 5+ years of experience working in one or more of the following areas: Data center Operations, Network Ops Center Operations, Enterprise-level network monitoring and/or virtual infrastructure monitoring.
- 5+ year providing Operation and Sustainment support for the virtualization environment.
Required Certifications:
- Security +
Required Skills:
- Direct technical experience in Virtualization administration, preferably VMWare.
About Abile Group, Inc.:
Abile Group, Inc. was formed in July 2004 to partner with the Intelligence Community and their Contractors in the areas of Enterprise Analytics & Performance Management, IT & Systems Engineering and Program & Project Management. We have significant experience with the Federal Government and are an EDWOSB dedicated to our employees and clients.We are looking for high performing employees who enjoy providing advice and guidance along with solutions development and implementation support, crafted by combining industry best practices with the clients’ subject matter experience and Abile’s breadth of expertise.
EEO Statement:
Abile Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email careers@abilegroup.com with requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days.
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