IT Systems Administrator

Job Description

ECS is seeking an IT Systems Administrator to work in our Quantico, VA office. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.

The Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division (DACID) is a United States Army Law Enforcement (LE) staff position reporting directly to the Secretary of the United States Army that handles felony investigations in coordination with multiple U.S. Army law enforcement agencies; Department of the Army Criminal Investigations Division (DACID); United States Army Corrections Command (ACC); Defense Forensic Science Center (DFSC) and Criminal Justice Information Directorate (CJID). DACID supports the Military Police (MP) and criminal investigation activities in partnership with local, state, federal, and other DoD law enforcement, investigative, and intelligence agencies.

The DACID organization is the Army's primary law enforcement organization, located at Quantico, Va. DACID includes a command headquarters; field offices, resident agencies, and resident units; a forensic laboratory; a crime records center; protective services unit, field investigative unit, and major procurement fraud unit with area field offices, fraud teams and resident agencies; and any other units required to fulfill the assigned mission.

ECS aims to provide US Army LE stakeholders the enhanced technical capability to rapidly and efficiently manage a variety of LE and Criminal Intelligence (CrimIntel) functions, as well as a broader range of senior executive reporting requirements.

ECS is looking for cleared (TS) System Administrator. Duties include:

• Maintaining operating system servers in support of business processing requirements.
• Performs software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages.
• Schedules installations, upgrades, and maintains them in accordance with government standards.
• Monitors and tunes the systems to achieve optimum performance levels.
• Ensures server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions.
• Ensures data/media recoverability by implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations.
• Maintains accounts, network rights, and access to systems and equipment. Installs, updates, and troubleshoots systems/servers.
• Manages system/server resources including performance, capacity, availability, serviceability and recoverability while monitoring and maintaining system/server configuration.
• Conducts periodic system maintenance including clearing (both physically and electronically), disk checks, routine reboots, data dumps, and testing. Installs, implements, and configures support of system components.
• Complies with government systems administration standard operating procedures and implements and enforces local network usage policies and procedures.

Required Skills

• Requires knowledge of cybersecurity principles, computer networking concepts, protocols, network security methodologies, risk management framework, cyber threats and vulnerabilities, and performance tuning tools and techniques.
• Possess skills in monitoring, optimizing system/server performance, operating system administration (account maintenance, data backups, system performance, installation and configuration of new hardware/software).
• Knowledge of virtualization technologies, virtual machine development and maintenance, system administration, network and operating system hardening techniques.
• This role requires BS/BA in Computer Science or Information Technology with 5 years experience or AA in Computer Science or Information Technology with 7 years experience.
• Must have a total of two (2) of the following Microsoft Certifications consisting of a combination of the following:
  • Must have two (2) of the following Microsoft Certifications:
    • Windows Server Hybrid, Administrator Associate Cybersecurity Architect Expert, Red Hat Certified Engineer OR
  • At least two (2) Microsoft Certified role-based requirements:
    • Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty, Identity and Access Administrator Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Security, Engineer Associate, Azure Network Engineer Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Cybersecurity Architect Expert, Security Operations Analyst Associate, Cybersecurity Architect, Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Network Engineer Associate

Desired Skills

• Master's degree in a related IT field

ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3800+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.