Systems Sustainment Administrator - Evening

Job ID: 2502776

Location: SUFFOLK, VA, US

Date Posted: 2025-03-05

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: IT Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Evening Job

Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

SAIC is looking for a Systems Engineer to serve as a Systems Administrator with experience in US Navy IT networks to support the sustained operation and maintenance of a newly deployed US Navy enterprise transport network, ensuring 24/7/365 availability and reliability. The position will support end-to-end network, system, and element visibility; facilitate rapid operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning to maintaining the operational integrity of a mission-critical network, requiring both technical expertise and a commitment to excellence in service delivery. This position will work a schedule of 3PM - 11 PM, 5 days per week to include weekends and a rotating on call requirement.

Work will be performed at the Navy customer's site in Suffolk, VA.

Position is contingent on funding in April 2025.

Specific duties include:

• Provide Tier 1 level engineering operations support to quickly identify, triage, and address outages, analyzing symptoms and potential root causes to implement effective resolutions or escalate to Tier 2/Tier 3 support as required.
• Utilize advanced monitoring tools and processes to oversee network infrastructure, monitor the performance and availability of managed services and systems across multiple exchange points, and ensure optimal performance.
• Perform day to day maintenance, fixes, configuration corrections, software and hardware updates, and deployments.
• Adhere to system and operational reporting obligations.
• Operate and maintain the privileged access solutions.
• Maintain continuous verification of failover processes and disaster recovery procedures.
• Operate and maintain hardware upgrade process and procedures.
• Update and maintain any software builds applicable to deployed equipment.
• Operate and maintain asset management processes and procedures.
• Operate and maintain configuration management.
• Enact change management for the network.
• Operate and maintain existing incident management processes
• Keep firmware, software updates and patches up to date for equipment.

Qualifications

Required Education and Years of Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related discipline and two (2) years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture and supporting a large network infrastructure.
  • 4 years of additional experience can be considered in lieu of degree.

Required Security Clearance:

• Secret Clearance required.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience with the following services: Linux; Windows Server; Active Directory and Group Policy; DNS; Python, BASH, Powershell, or similar; Ansible (Tower), Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Containerization, Jenkins, or similar; deploying VMs within VMWare vSphere.
• Experience with the following a plus: Nautobot, RHEL Satellite, InfoBlox DDI; RedHat Linux 8.
• Working knowledge with Routers, Switches, Firewalls, and Virtual Private Network devices.
• Understanding of TCP/IP in regard to routing and subnetting.
• Windows Server / Active Directory.

Required Certifications:

• IAT Level II required (Sec + and OS Certification).

Working Environment and Travel:

• Able to work shifts to cover a 24x7 operational environment.
• Able to cover on-call schedule on a rotating basis.
• Travel up to 25% may be required.

Desired:

• Certifications are considered a plus: CompTia Linux+, RedHat Linux, Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.