Systems Administration Technician

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Systems Administrator to join our team in the Washington, DC location. This is an onsite position.

• Maintaining, and documenting technology solutions in a wide variety of application and/or service areas, including client/server solutions, VDI solutions, client/server applications.
• Participating in a Change Management processes
• Providing IT Systems and Applications Administration support for a small, distributed IT infrastructure.
• Responsibility for investigating and resolving operational problems in conjunction with other engineering and technical personnel.
• Providing IT Systems Administration support on a wide range of technologies, including Microsoft SQL Server, Internet Explorer, Adobe Acrobat, HBSS, Splunk, customer line-of-business applications, VMware vCenter, HP Secure Printing, HP SANs, Certificate Services, DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, Group Policies and Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux Operating Systems.
• Other tasks may include requirements specification, performance modeling, end-to-end functional analysis, cost estimation, and joint application design.
• Participate in technology evaluation and reengineering teams to support strategy-definition and continuous process improvement activities
• Provide input to the Lead Engineer and PM in support project.
• Participate in the implementation, and management of workload automation initiatives
• Adhere to firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and familiarity with ITIL or other formalized IT operations foundations
• Participating in processes throughout all phases of ITIL Service Lifecycle, including submitting Change Requests

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT or STEM field with 5+ years’ experience as an enterprise systems administrator in a client or server environment, including deployment automation tools. An associate’s degree with 8 years, or a high school diploma with 10 years’
• DoD 8570 IAT Level 2 certification required; anyone of the following (CCNA Security, GICSP, GSEC, Sec+, CND or SSCP) DoD 8570 computing environment certification within 6 months of hire
• Extensive experience with Windows based systems including Hardware, software, networking, and storage
• Proficient in Power Shell and/or other scripting languages
• Willingness to work after normal duty hours (nights and weekends) during scheduled maintenance windows 1 to 2 times a month on average

• Certifications such as MCSE:
  Core Infrastructure, VMware: VCTA – CMA, Red Hat RHCA, RHCE, or RHCA

• US Citizenship required and active TS clearance adjudicated within the last 6 years
• Candidate must be open to poly

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position up to 75% of the time
• Must be able to move about inside the office and datacenter to access IT equipment
• The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations
• Must be able to observe and detect employee deviations from established policy

MANTECH International Corporation considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability or veteran status or any other status protected under any federal, state, or local law or regulation.

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