Systems Administrator

Location: Lexington, MA/Hybrid

Duration: 36 Months

Description

Maintains operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination of infrastructure and cloud responsibilities.

Develops and designs core operating system builds.

Responsible for coding, virtualization, and automation of systems.

Sets up administrator and service accounts, maintains an active directory of users and system documentation, tunes system performance, installs system-wide software, and allocates mass storage space.

Assesses and resolves user access problems related to security controls to minimize business impact and risk exposure.

Identifies and evaluates vendor products and establishes vendor monitoring and tracking processes.

Performs capacity planning and monitors/tunes systems.

Recommends appropriate platforms for purchase, coordinates installation, and provides backup recovery.

Serves as a point of escalation for major incidents that are unresolved at the helpdesk level.

Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.

May draft general IT communications to end-users including notifications of outages/downtimes.

These activities create an ongoing requirement for an experienced Testbed Engineer with Solaris and Linux system administrator experience.

The Testbed Engineer will maintain the security configuration of fielded equipment, as well as establishing and maintaining the software and hardware development environment used for these test platforms, which includes directory services, version-control systems, script languages, and Solaris and Linux servers and workstations, both physical and virtualized using VMware ESXi.

Required Skills

Linux systems administration

Administering work stations on in a testbed/lab environment

Virtualization experience

DNS, DHCP, Load balancing

LAN and VPN experience

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances

Systems

Configure and Manage Centralized Logging and Audit Capabilities

Enterprise Backup Solutions

Hardware: Client/AMD, Cisco, Sun/Oracle, a Consumer Electronics company, Apple, EMC, NetApp

Linux system administration (RedHat + Ubuntu)

MS Active Directory, LDAP

SCCM, and Active Directory

Strong Backup Experience and Proven Ability to Protect Mission Critical Data

System Administration

Technologies including DNS, DHCP, Proxy and Load Balancing

UNIX platform, OSX, Cisco IOS

Virtualization Technologies to include VM management, Snapshots, SANs and iSCSI Storage Systems

As an equal opportunity employer, ICONMA provides an employment environment that supports and encourages the abilities of all persons without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or express, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability status, political affiliation, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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