Systems Administrator

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Technical Solutions Division (HII-TSD) is currently seeking a Systems Administrator. The ideal candidate works well in an agile, fast moving culture and has a fundamental passion and curiosity to learn.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Maintain development systems (i.e. security patches, kernel updates, OS updates).
• Use procedures to perform identification, troubleshooting, and diagnosis of hardware failures and restore system capability to operations.
• Provide administrator support (User creation/deletion, security group management, storage media permissions, shared resources configuration).
• Manage transferring of data between networks as needed
• Purchase and configure PCs for new personnel.
• Purchase and maintain printer toner inventory, replacing cartridges when needed.
• Maintain system documentation and inventory database.
• Perform other infrastructure maintenance tasks as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 4 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 10 years relevant experience
• Current CompTIA Security+ ce Certification preferred at time of hire OR ability to obtain within 6 months of hire date
• Knowledge of Active Directory, Windows OS, Windows Server OS
• Basic understanding of OSI networking model
• Must be able to bend, reach, stoop and lift up to 50 lbs.
• Must be able to climb rung ladders and work in confined areas.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with enhanced security checks
• Minimum Secret clearance is required to start

Preferred Requirements

• Experience configuring and managing VPN connections to remote sites.
• Other IT/technical certifications than listed above.
• Experience working in classified environments.
• Experience working with NIPR, SIPR, other DoD networks.
• Experience with different databases, including working knowledge of SQL, relational data stores.
• Experience with Linux OS.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.