Description

SAIC is seeking an experienced Senior Windows System Administrator to support our customer, NOAA GFDL, in Princeton, NJ. This position requires an ability to obtain a Public Trust and is hybrid remote with work at the local customer site (3 times weekly). Desired physical location is in the Princeton, NJ or surrounding area.

The Senior Windows System Administrator responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide Top-Tier System Administration for client and server systems

• Total ownership of Windows environment

• Ownership of all Core Infrastructure and Windows environment

• Maintain IT Security posture according to organization requirements

• Manage rigorous patching schedule for all system software and firmware

• Maintain, monitor, support, and upgrade as needed the infrastructure environment, including the Windows Core Infrastructure, and lead enterprise base work initiatives and projects

• Support systems and applications of high complexity with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity and accessibility

• Plan and execute projects and tasks as required by the customer

• Integration solutions with other applications and platforms based on requirements

• Working with engineers on the requirements and provides recommendations for improvements

• Recommend changes/enhancements for improved systems availability, reliability and performance

• Evaluate future technologies and makes recommendations for software and hardware upgrades

• Ensure IT system security basslines are met and security improvements are implemented across the server and client environment

• Work with vendors and customer to architect roadmaps

• Develop plans to adopt new technology

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Six years of experience in determining information technology effects on the organizational structure and determining the ability that IT can support/meet organizational goals.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business or other related scientific or technical discipline:

• With a Master’s degree (in the fields described above): four years experience

• With a PH.D. (in the fields described above): three years of experience

• With at least ten years of specialized training, a degree is not required

• Experience with medium to large server/data center environment

• Experience working with Hypervisors, Virtualization Production Clusters (Ovirt), and Windows server hardware/software

• Experience managing and maintaining Active Directory

• Experience with system deployment, SW deployment and configuration management solutions: Ansible (most desired)

• Extensive experience developing/diagnosing automation scripts (Powershell)

• Experience developing OS security baselines

• Knowledge of building systems for clients and servers; and knowledge of different classes of system architecture

• Experience managing VDI infrastructure; preferably Microsoft VDI solution

• Understanding of licensing structures for Microsoft products

• Experience with Backup solutions

• Experience managing and maintaining software scalable network file systems, and centralized storage appliances

• Must have a strong automation experience, software deployment, and configuration management solutions for multiple environments

• US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Desirable Skills:

• Automation and Load Balancing Experience

• Experience with CAC / Smart Card authentication solutions such as Centrify in an Active Directory Environment

• Experience managing and maintaining database clusters, preferably Microsoft SQL cluster and Percona XtraDB/MySQL cluster

Program and Project Details:

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory environment consists of a Core Windows Infrastructure running on mostly Dell Hardware and Linux Hypervisors (Ovirt), with 200+ Linux workstations, 60+ Windows Workstations, and 20+ Mac Workstations. The IT Systems group ensures the NOAA GFDL 24/7 facility is up and operational, able to continuously work towards its mission.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2413759

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