System Administrator

Posted:
8/1/2024, 8:37:26 AM

Location(s):
Maryland, United States

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
IT & Security ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Remote

NetSage's mission is to help our customers achieve their missions by providing superior cyber services. We seek talented professionals who are interested in doing meaningful, mission-focused work for the U.S. Federal Government. We are a growing Company that puts our employees first and offers excellent pay and world-class benefits. We do not hire contract by contract; instead, we offer multiple job options and career progression for our employees. We realize that our website and job descriptions may be a little vague and that's on purpose because of the customers we support. Please connect with us using our Contact Us page if you have any questions about any of our job-openings.

Job Description:

We are seeking a Systems Administrator to support the Red Hunt and Blue teams supporting Defensive Cybersecurity Operations. In this role you will work closely with a team of professional systems administrators, developers, and mission operators and be given an opportunity to learn from others and share your knowledge with a receptive team. If you enjoy being able to do jack-of-all-trades support, then this could be ideal the position for you. Please consider applying if you have the following required qualifications and experience.

Required Qualifications:

  • TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance.
  • Master's degree and three (3) years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of relevant experience, or an Associate's degree and seven (7) years of relevant experience, or a high school diploma/GED and nine (9) years of relevant experience. Degree must be in Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology or related field. Relevant experience must be in computer or information systems design/development; programming, information/cyber/network security; vulnerability analysis; penetration testing; computer forensics; information assurance and/or systems engineering.
  • Experience in systems/network administration, application administration, and/or information technology support or management.
  • Experience supporting hardware installation, such as servers and network infrastructure.
  • Experience applying information assurance vulnerability alerts (IAVAs) and other updates.
  • Experience supporting laptop builds for mission operations.
  • Experience providing administrative support for Splunk Cluster.
  • Virtual Machine (VM) build and support experience. 
  • CentOS administration experience. 
  • Some Windows Administration experience or familiarity with Windows. 
  • Ability to work closely with developers and operators to define requirements and design solutions.

Desired Experience:

  • Familiarity with Nutanix.
  • Familiarity with Splunk, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, Airflow, GitLab, Jira.
  • Experience supporting hardware installation, supporting servers, desktops, network infrastructure.
  • Experience setting up storage such as network-attached storage or remote storage.
  • Experience implementing security best practices.
  • Familiarity with maintaining inventory of infrastructure hardware.​