Information Systems Administrator, Journeyman

Torch Technologies

Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL with over 1200 employee-owners. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of Defense. As one of the nation's top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country.

Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: "Lighting the Pathway of Freedom". And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us!

Torch Technologies is seeking an Information Systems Administrator, Journeyman located at Maxwell Air Force Base-Gunter Annex in Montgomery, AL, within the AFLCMC/GB Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate (BES), to support the DCAPES Logistics Feasibility Analysis Capability (LOGFAC). The LOGFAC system provides the Warfighter with an accurate assessment of the Air Force War Reserve Material (AF WRM) stockpile, aircraft consumable/non-consumable requirements based on Wartime Aircraft Activity, the Air Force Wartime Consumable Distribution Objective, and shortfalls/overages.

It is a mathematically intense application enriched with complex algorithms that produce feasibility assessments for executing plans. The system produces associated cost estimates for wartime requirements. LOGFAC supports planning, execution and monitoring of forces, equipment and supplies during peacetime, contingency situations, periods of national crisis, and both limited and global war.

• Provide support and assistance in the management and operations of program related network systems.
• Providing system administration of Network, Web, and/or communication systems including Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) systems involving network security;
• Preparing technical implementation plans that provide integrated solutions including actions, milestones, timelines and critical paths required for complete solutions;
• Performing the daily activities of configuration and operation of business systems which may be mainframe, mini, client/server, or cloud based;
• Optimizing system operation and resource utilization;
• Performing system capacity analysis and planning; and,
• Experience using any, or all, of the following tools:
  Checkmarx, Sonar Qube, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Bitbucket
• Update, monitor, and manage information in systems for the program office
• Serve as the first point of contact for resolving or escalating issues relating to hardware, software, network, and other issues of computer end users
• Strong experience with CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies with Jenkins.
• Troubleshoot user identified deficiencies; validate developer delivered deficiency corrections

• Provide hands‑on support of the operationally fielded LOGFAC instances supporting test, and production residing in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in IL4 and IL6
• Collaborate with development team to implement infrastructure requirements and resolve issues
• Configured security group for EC2 Window and Linux instances
• Monitor system performance and optimize system operations and resource utilization
• Deploy terraform images to IL6 using Jenkins CI/CD pipeline
• Experience working with Linux OS (Red Hat), file locations, maneuvering through Linux based directory file structures
• Upgrade servers with the latest releases of software packages/patches and RPM packages on Linux servers
• Perform database‑specific monitoring of processes, file changes, and distributed database links
• Manage AWS EC2 instances as required
• Process LOGFAC weekly and annual Interface files using Linux, AWS S3 and SQL Developer in IL6
• Perform application monitoring and rotate SSL certificates as required
• Create, unlock and remove user accounts as required
• Provide support for preparation of technical implementation plans for emerging LOGFAC releases
• Se…