System Administrator

This position is VIRTUAL. The candidate can work remotely but they MUST live within 100 miles of Lexington so that they can come into the Lab if necessary for the needs of the program. The onsite work will NOT be regular.

Description:

Maintains operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination of infrastructure and cloud responsibilities. Develops and designs core operating system builds. Responsible for coding, virtualization, and automation of systems. Sets up administrator and service accounts, maintains an active directory of users and system documentation, tunes system performance, installs system-wide software, and allocates mass storage space. Assesses and resolves user access problems related to security controls to minimize business impact and risk exposure. Identifies and evaluates vendor products and establishes vendor monitoring and tracking processes. Performs capacity planning and monitors/tunes systems. Recommends appropriate platforms for purchase, coordinates installation, and provides backup recovery. Serves as a point of escalation for major incidents that are unresolved at the helpdesk level. Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources. May draft general IT communications to end-users including notifications of outages/downtimes.

Background Need:

The ECAWS system administrator team provides enterprise application support and maintenance for the Laboratory. ECAWS is looking for a system administrator with skill sets in the administration of Slack tool. This person should have a prior experience managing Slack, or similar cloud collaboration solutions like Microsoft Teams. Person should have experience in managing Admin roles, provisioning users, SSO integration, setting and configuring policies, app approval process and integrations. Also needed is experience administering Atlassian suite of tools including Bamboo, Jira and Confluence. Candidate should also have experience administering Oracle WebLogic.

Virtual / Work from Home - Virtual

Must Have:

• Slack - 5 yrs of experience
• Maintaining applications in a Linux environment
• Tosca Automation
• Web application server deployment (TOMCAT or other server containers)
• Atlassian Stack
• CI/CD with containers/Cloud technologies
• Containers & Orchestration (OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Evaluation of audit logs
• MS Active Directory, LDAP
• Systems Administration
• Technologies including DNS, DHCP, Proxy and Load Balancing
• Virtualization Technologies to include VM management, Snapshots, SANs and iSCSI
• Storage Systems
• Windows Server Platform

Nice to Have:
Macintosh and iOS platform(s)
Windows Patch Management

Others:

• Clearance: Candidates should have an active clearance (secret/top secret, etc.) in order to be considered for this position due to the nature of the work being done. Do not submit candidates if they do not meet this requirement.
• Work Location: This position is VIRTUAL. The candidate can work remotely but they MUST live within 100 miles of Lexington so that they can come into the Lab if necessary for the needs of the program. The onsite work will NOT be regular.
• Interview Process: 1st round interview will be a Zoom with the hiring manager. 2nd round interview will be a Zoom with additional team members as needed.