Overview Advanced Systems Administration Specialist to support secure, enterprise-class IT in a defense-focused setting. You will administer, secure, and optimize physical and virtual infrastructures for mission-critical systems. You'll work with a team of engineers and cybersecurity professionals on secure, compliant environments. This role combines hands-on administration with modernization efforts across virtualization, networking, and security. A meaningful opportunity to contribute to high-security programs and evolving tech initiatives.
Responsibilities- Administer and maintain secure physical and virtual server environments
- Design, deploy, test, and support new infrastructure and system solutions
- Provide day-to-day support for classified and secure IT environments
- Monitor system performance and health across infrastructure
- Perform vulnerability scanning, remediation, and patch management
- Manage backups, disaster recovery, and business continuity
- Implement security controls based on government/industry standards
- Support networking, virtualization, storage, and enterprise infrastructure
- Work within change management to upgrade systems and improve infrastructure
- Support cybersecurity and information assurance compliance efforts
- Diagnose and resolve complex hardware, software, and network issues
Key requirements- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Systems Engineering, or related field with 5+ years of relevant experience or Master's with 3+ years
- 5+ years in systems administration, infrastructure engineering, enterprise IT, or cybersecurity support
- 3+ years administering Red Hat Linux and/or Windows Server environments
- 3+ years supporting VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, or similar virtualization platforms
- 3+ years designing, deploying, maintaining secure enterprise infrastructure
- 2+ years implementing security controls, hardening, remediation, and compliance
- 2+ years working with STIGs, CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-171/800-53, CMMC
- 2+ years vulnerability assessments, patch management, remediation
- 2+ years supporting backup, DR, business continuity
- 2+ years troubleshooting complex hardware, software, network, virtualization issues
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities
- Excellent communication with both technical and non-technical users
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt to evolving security needs
- Red Hat Linux
- Windows Server
- VMware vSphere/Hyper-V
