System Engineer II (Second Shift)

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Full Time
10% Travel

Skills

Active Directory
Ansible
Bash
Computer Networking
Cyber Security
DNS
DoD
Emerging Technologies
Firewall
Group Policy
Incident Management
Infoblox
Issue Tracking
Linux
Jenkins
Microsoft Exchange
Network Design
Network Engineering
Operations Management
Performance Monitoring
Puppet
ROOT
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Regulatory Compliance
STIG
Satellite
Security Clearance
Terraform
Tier 3
VMware
Virtual Machines
Windows PowerShell

Job Details

NexGen Data Systems is seeking a highly skilled and motivated System Engineer II to provide level operations, management, and sustainment (O&M&S) support for the Naval Exchange Point services, including maintaining security compliance (STIGs, firewall rules, and patches), performing regular software updates, troubleshooting application, connectivity, and performance issues, maintaining system documentation and procedures, and addressing requests through the ticketing system. This is a 2nd shift position from 1600-0100.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Incident Response: Quickly identify, triage, and address outages, analyzing symptoms and potential root causes to implement effective resolutions or escalate to Tier 3 support when necessary.
  • Performance Monitoring: Utilize advanced monitoring tools to oversee virtual infrastructure and ensure optimal performance.
  • Communication & Collaboration: Provide clear, professional written advisories to customers and operations staff, translating technical information into actionable insights.
  • Device maintenance: Ensure Applications are running and up to date, deploy patches and software updates as needed, maintain system configuration and documentation.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Desired/Required Skills:

  • Active Department of Defense Secret level security clearance required.
  • DoD Approved 8570 / 8140 OS and Cybersecurity certifications required.
  • Up to 5% travel required.
  • 2+ years relevant experience in supporting a large network infrastructure.
  • Experience administering Linux and/or Windows Servers
  • Secret clearance or higher preferred
  • Understanding of Active Directory and Group Policy principles
  • Understanding of advanced DNS topics
  • Python, BASH, PowerShell, or similar
  • Knowledge and understanding of Ansible (Tower), Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Containerization, Jenkins, or similar principles
  • Previous experience working with VMs within VMWare vSphere
  • Experience or knowledge with the following a plus: Nautobot, RHEL Satellite, and/or InfoBlox DDI

About the Company:

NexGen Data Systems is an emerging technologies focused company providing expert systems and network engineering solutions to the Department of Defense. NexGen Data Systems promotes a culture of knowledge and career advancement through continued learning, keeping our team current on the latest advances in systems and networking, and enabling our team to provide the best available solutions to our clients.

Benefits:

  • Company covers 100% of premiums for the employee s medical, dental, and vision insurance and subsidizes premiums for spouse and dependents.
  • Company provides short and long term disability plans.
  • 401(k) match up to 10% of the employee s salary contributions to 401(K) plan.
  • Comprehensive training and development program.
  • 11 paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) accrual level starts at 15 days annually.
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