Senior Systems Administrator

This position description does not represent a current opening but may be used to identify candidates with skills and experience to fill a position within Technica Corporation once the contract is awarded. Candidates who express an interest may be considered for future positions at Technica Corporation. If a position becomes available that aligns with your qualifications, our recruitment team will contact you.

Technica Corporation is looking for a highly motivated, self-starting individual to fill the Air Force Base Infrastructure Modernization (BIM) Senior Systems Administrator role.

The System Administrator will manage and support the design, implementation, integration, hardening, deployment, and sustainment of a modernized compute, storage, network, and management application environment for a U.S. Government project. This role is responsible for maintaining a secure, resilient, and highly available IT stack that supports network operations.

The Senior Systems Administrator will provide hands-on support for server environments, virtualization platforms, storage systems, backup and recovery platforms, management applications, and core infrastructure services. The ideal candidate has strong experience in DoD systems administration, platform hardening, patching, troubleshooting, operational support, and sustainment in highly secure and mission-critical environments.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide installation, configuration, integration, and hardening of physical and virtual hosting infrastructure, storage, and applications to operate and manage network environments.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and sustain physical and virtual server environments in accordance with program requirements and operational schedules.
• Provide system administration support for our Network Integration Lab, Integration Test Facility, and Network Operations Centers.
• Support account management, access control, system auditing, and secure administrative practices.
• Perform system hardening in accordance with DISA STIGs, RMF requirements, cybersecurity policies, and vendor best practices.
• Monitor infrastructure health, availability, performance, capacity, and fault conditions across supported systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex system issues involving servers, operating systems, virtualization platforms, storage, backups, and management tools.
• Establish backups and monitor site security.
• Support system integration activities with network, cybersecurity, storage, and management toolsets.
• Maintain system configurations, baselines, inventories, and operational documentation, including SOPs, as-built records, maintenance procedures, and recovery guides.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective action implementation for infrastructure-related outages or degradations.
• Coordinate with engineers, cybersecurity staff, network administrators, and program leadership to support secure and reliable operations.
• Provide administrator-level support during deployment events, maintenance windows, and sustainment operations.
• Mentor junior administrators and provide technical guidance on best practices for systems administration and operational support.

The position will be based in Sterling, VA, or at other select locations as required by the contract. This job may support a hybrid work schedule. The final approved work schedule arrangement will be coordinated with the hiring manager. This position may require 10%-20% travel.

• Active Secret clearance with TS/SCI eligibility
• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience
• Must have either a technical certification or training provided within DoD 8140/DCWF: SecurityX / CASP+, CCNP Security, CCSP, Cloud+, FITSP-O, GFACT, GICSP, GSEC, Security+, SSCP
• Understanding of general system interoperability in a LAN/WAN Environment
• Experience operating in secure enterprise or government IT environments
• Hands-on experience administering enterprise environments involving servers, operating systems, virtualization, storage, and systems management platforms
• Specific skillsets: Windows OS, UNIX OS, Vulnerability Management, Identity Credential, and Access Management (ICAM), SmartCard authentication using Public-Key Infrastructure, Active Directory, and major databases
• Strong troubleshooting, organizational, and communications skills

• Familiarity with ITIL Foundation or equivalent IAT Level II certification
• Experience in Air Force or DoD environments
• Experience supporting continuity of operations, failover testing, and disaster recovery
• Experience with automation tools and scripting such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, or Ansible
• Experience supporting system accreditation, test, and turnover in government environments

About Technica: 

At Technica Corporation, our goal is to provide exceptional professional services and innovative technology solutions that meet or exceed our customer’s expectations. We specialize in a wide range of advanced information technology solutions from Systems Engineering to Cyber Security, and from Software Development to Product Solutions. From our locations across the DC Metro area, Hampton, Virginia, and Huntsville, Alabama, we provide technological subject matter expertise, program management and business process knowledge as a trusted advisor in support of our Department of Defense and other Federal Agency customers.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

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