Systems Administrator

DRS Daylight Solutions business provides industry-changing photonic engine technology for government and commercial markets, including defense and security, quantum information sciences, life sciences, and industrial process control. As a laser technology pioneer, Daylight Solutions has delivered more mid-IR systems to more applications world-wide than any other company. Daylight laser solutions span the full spectrum from UV to visible to NIR to mid-IR.

At DRS Daylight Solutions, you will be eligible for competitive pay, great benefits, including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k match, 9/80 work schedule, and Tuition Assistance. Our Daylight family-oriented culture allows you to receive hands-on training, professional development, career advancement and exposure to the latest and greatest technology, where our motto is "To protect with Light". Come join the family!

Manage and tune on-prem air-gapped computer systems and network connections to ensure high levels of availability and security of the supported business applications. Participates in the planning and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure system provisioning and maintenance that is consistent with company goals, industry best practices and regulatory requirements.

• Manage and tune on-prem air-gapped computer systems and network connections to ensure high levels of availability and security of the supported business applications
• Participates in the planning and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure system provisioning and maintenance that is consistent with company goals, industry best practices and regulatory requirements
• Install, configure, monitor, administer and maintain servers, printers, scanners and applications
• Manage communications and connection solutions, including workstation connectivity, and Internet applications
• Responsible for scheduling and monitoring backup jobs, analyzing and correcting issues as identified, regularly reporting critical data metrics and issues to management and proactively maintaining the health and safety of the storage solutions
• Administer and maintain end user accounts, permissions, and access rights exercising a least-privileged approach.
• Perform server and security audits
• Analyze system, server, application, and network performance on a regular basis
• Participate in and support capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for systems and software in conjunction with end-users and department managers
• Support application development teams throughout project lifecycle
• Manage scalability, availability, and performance of servers and services to applications and data systems
• Configure storage to optimize system performance, backup and restore operations, and to maximize cost-effective utilization of resources
• Install patches and upgrades to server hardware, firmware, and/or software
• Manage system integration testing, load, testing, stress testing, and user acceptance testing processes
• Responsible for physical storage media management (i.e. extending file systems, storage on demand, server disk drives, tape backup devices, etc)
• Interact and negotiate with vendors, outsource rs, and contractors to secure network products and services
• Monitor and test network performance and provide network performance statistics and reports
• Aid in development of business continuity and disaster recovery plans, and maintain current knowledge of plan executables
• Coordinate with end users and technical staff to implement and maintain systems that utilize industry best practices to meet business objectives, while maintaining the security and integrity of the data, system and network
• Generate metrics, project status reports and operating status reports for management and team members
• Provide guidance to less experienced personnel
• Prepare, coordinate and support user training and documentation and provide technical assistance for post-implementation support issues
• Provide service desk and technical support to users, with multi-tiered troubleshooting techniques.
• Perform routine to moderately complex problem analysis and resolution design for systems and applications
• Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization

• In Depth experience with virtualization and effective resource pooling
• Windows Server failover clustering and availability groups
• Microsoft SQL Server optimization
• Power Shell automation
• Backup and disaster recovery to include application aware processing
• Experience with endpoint management software to include:
  • • Image/application management and deployment, computer baseline inventory, security configurations, patch management, driver ios updates and security configuration, and vulnerability scanning.
• Comfortable managing both the server and networking infrastructure
• Takes initiative and is forward thinking in problem solving and process improvement

• Bachelor's degree in business administration,…