System Engineer

Job Title: System Engineer

Location: Herndon, VA (Onsite)

Status: Full-time

Yakshna Solutions, Inc., (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, VA, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serving business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training, and professional development assistance.

YSI is seeking a System Engineer with hands-on experience supporting Windows and Linux environments, cloud infrastructure, application hosting, DevOps deployments, virtualization, and IT security systems. The candidate will work with our software development and IT teams to maintain development, test, production, and corporate infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Windows Server and Linux-based systems.
• Monitor servers, applications, services, storage, CPU, memory, and system performance and troubleshoot infrastructure-related issues.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and maintain Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Support website and web application hosting environments, including IIS, Apache, and Nginx.
• Configure and maintain SSL/TLS certificates, DNS records, application bindings, and web server configurations.
• Support deployment and maintenance of web applications across development, test, UAT, and production environments.
• Work with Azure DevOps repositories, pipelines, build/release processes, and deployment workflows.
• Support CI/CD deployments and troubleshoot build and deployment failures.
• Build, deploy, and maintain containerized applications using Docker and Docker Compose.
• Administer and support AWS cloud environments, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Route 53, load balancers, security groups, and related services.
• Provision, configure, monitor, resize, patch, back up, and maintain AWS virtual machines and supporting infrastructure.
• Administer virtualized environments using technologies such as VMware and Proxmox.
• Create, configure, clone, snapshot, back up, restore, and monitor virtual machines.
• Support and maintain corporate and server security solutions, including firewalls, endpoint protection, antiviranti-malware, web filtering, and related security tools.
• Monitor security alerts and coordinate investigation and remediation of endpoint, server, and network security issues.
• Assist with vulnerability remediation, operating system hardening, patch management, and security configuration.
• Manage user and system access, permissions, service accounts, and administrative privileges based on organizational security requirements.
• Support backup, recovery, system availability, and disaster recovery activities.
• Maintain infrastructure and system documentation, including configurations, deployment procedures, troubleshooting guides, and inventory.
• Work closely with software developers to troubleshoot application, server, network, database connectivity, and deployment-related issues.
• Perform routine system health checks and proactively identify infrastructure and security issues.
• Provide technical support and participate in troubleshooting and incident resolution as needed

Required Skills and Experience

• 1 5 years of hands-on experience in system administration, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or a related technical role.
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent technical experience.
• Hands-on experience administering Windows Server environments.
• Hands-on experience administering Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, or similar distributions.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, including source repositories, pipelines, builds, releases, and application deployments.
• Experience hosting and maintaining web applications using IIS, Apache, and/or Nginx.
• Experience deploying and maintaining applications using Docker.
• Working knowledge of networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ports, routing, firewalls, VPNs, and SSL/TLS.
• Experience administering AWS environments and services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, Route 53, RDS, security groups, and load balancers.
• Experience working with virtualization technologies such as VMware and/or Proxmox.
• Experience supporting security technologies such as firewalls, endpoint protection, antiviranti-malware, and vulnerability management tools.
• Experience with server patching, system upgrades, monitoring, backup, and recovery.
• Basic scripting experience using PowerShell, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Ability to troubleshoot infrastructure, operating system, network, application hosting, and deployment issues.
• Ability to document technical configurations and procedures.
• Good written and verbal communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with development and IT teams.

Knowledge of or experience with the following technologies is preferred:

• Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policy
• Microsoft 365 and Entra ID
• AWS cloud infrastructure
• Azure DevOps
• Docker and Docker Compose
• IIS, Apache, and Nginx
• VMware and Proxmox
• PowerShell and Bash scripting
• Git and source control
• SQL Server and MySQL administration basics
• Infrastructure monitoring and log management tools
• Backup and disaster recovery solutions
• Endpoint security and vulnerability management platforms
• Network and host-based firewalls
• Infrastructure security best practices
• ISO 27001, CMMC, NIST, or other cybersecurity/compliance frameworks
• AWS, Microsoft Azure, Linux, VMware, CompTIA Security+, Network+, or similar industry certifications are preferred but not required.