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Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as an Tier II Linux Administrator supporting our intelligence customer. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.
At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As an Systems Administrator will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared professional joining our team to support or intelligence customer in Springfield, VA.
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking an IT Engineer with Microsoft Enterprise Systems Administrator Advisor or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) experience to join our team in support of a Federal Intelligence Agency contract. In addition to receiving a competitive salary and generous health and personal benefits, the IT Engineer will enhance their skill set among a talented and technically accomplished group of colleagues.
Primary responsibilities include providing Tier II support maintaining multiple large Enterprise environments. The supporting infrastructure includes multiple Microsoft based networks spanning multiple security enclaves within a hybrid (Windows & RHEL) operating environment.
Job Responsibilities & Duties:
System Administrative Advisory duties to include management of both physical and VDI based Windows and Linux workstations
Troubleshoot user, workstation and application functionality, performance and incident resolution for both Linux and Windows based applications
Identifies, analyzes, and resolve incidents with both short-term workarounds and long-term solutions
Provide remote end user support and remotely work with geographically disperse Tier 2 and Tier 3 team members
Communicate effectively (in oral and written form) with a variety of individuals and team members in both small and large team environments
Willingness to participate in special projects as needed
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
8+ years of related systems administration experience
TS/SCI with Polygraph is required.
Candidate must possess an appropriate and current DoD Information Assurance (IA) Certification to be considered for employment; either valid CompTIA Security+ CE, Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) or Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)-Security. CompTIA Security+ CE Certification is the preferred certification. In addition, candidate must attain the required DoD 8570 Computing Environment (CE) Training within six (6) months of Hire Date.
Successful candidates are expected to have related experience and knowledge/understanding of:
Active Directory Administration
DNS, DHCP, DFS, LDAP in a Windows or Linux environment
Windows 10, Server 2012, Server 2016
Application Troubleshooting such as Outlook, Excel, Word, JAVA, Internet Explorer, Firefox
Linux Operating system as a server or desktop (RHEL 6/7/8, CentOS 6/7/Stream, Scientific Linux 6/7, Fedora)
Understanding of Samba and NFS file sharing protocols
Understanding of ServiceNow, NETS or other ticketing process
ITIL v3 or higher
The following knowledge/skill set is not required but is a plus:
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
PowerShell
Virtualization Environments (VMware, Citrix)
Profile management utilizing the VMware User Experience Management (UEM) toolset
Microsoft Exchange
Telephone/Video support
Networking
Familiarity with site specific customer and mission
Linux scripting (Python, Perl, Ruby, Bash)
Gnome and KDE desktop environments
Puppet or Ansible experience
Linux Kickstart
Red Hat Satellite or Foreman/Katello
Dell/EMC Isilon and Netapp storage appliances
Experience with monitoring tools like SCOM, Zabbix or Nagios
DoD STIG hardening
Containerization (Docker, Podman)
Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
Location: On Customer Site
US Citizenship Required
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
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- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
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