System Administrator
Alexandria, VA

Job Description

Job Description

Description

The System Administrator performs high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for complex operating systems, workstations and servers. Coordinates, directs and performs complex software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages. Schedules installations and upgrades and maintains them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures. Continually monitors and tunes multiple systems to achieve optimum performance levels. Ensures workstation/server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions of varying complexities. Ensures data/media recoverability by developing and implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations. Plans and implements the modernization of servers. Develops, implements and promotes standard operating procedures and schedules. Conducts hardware and software audits of workstations and servers to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines. Incumbent develops and implements new standards, policies and procedures. Incumbent in this job works closely with Network and Systems Analysts to help determine and develop the systems that will be implemented. Complete understanding and wide application of technical principles, theories, and concepts in the field. General knowledge of other related disciplines. Receives assignments in the form of objectives and establishes goals to meet outlined objectives. Provides direction to employees according to established policies and management guidance. Work is reviewed by management to measure whether objectives have been met.

* Perform routine and critical system maintenance in a highly complex, interconnected, and high availability environment, using the customer CM processes and tools where applicable
* Quickly triage, diagnose, and repair for hardware and software solutions to avoid system downtime and critical failures
* Improve critical system performance to fifteen in-scope systems, working in conjunction with the customer's Systems Performance Branch and engineering teams
* Work across multiple Hardware, Operating System, Database and Platform types / versions within a Virtualized and Non-Virtualized infrastructure

Qualifications

Required

* Bachelor's degree and nine (9) years of experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more of experience.


* Familiar with Open Source and COTS tools


* Working knowledge of Windows NT, Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, HP UX 11, Ansible, Shell Scripting, Backup Tools, System Images, or Kernel Performance Tuning.



Desired

* USPTO knowledge is desirable



Overview

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability