Senior Systems Administrator (57842)

BMA is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to join our team. This is a remote role.

Job Summary 

• Ensures the stable operation of the in-house computer software systems and network connections, including planning, developing, installing, configuring, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing all network software and communication links.
• Organizes and directs the configuration and operation of information management systems, ensuring systems run securely, efficiently, and reliably.
• Analyzes and resolves end user software program and connectivity issues.
• Conducts capacity and performance analysis and provides system configuration change and upgrade recommendations.
• Increases system administrator efficiency and accuracy via the use of automated tools and scripts, develops system administrator procedures, and conducts system administrator training and skills assessment.
• Provides end user training.
• Provides recommendations on technology direction to align with business vision.
• Provides local and remote maintenance support to various operational systems deployed at more than one location.
• Support includes general maintenance, upgrades, and new installs of servers and applications.
• Directs the work of other system administrators to provide the day-to-day system administration to include system and resource optimization, and user assistance.
• Applies advanced technical knowledge of application networking, including load balancing applications, and ensuring fault tolerance.       
• Performs vulnerability management.

Clearance Requirements 

There is a Secret Clearance requirement for this position. 

Required Skills & Certifications

• Bachelor of Arts or Science (BA / BS) Degree in relevant field.
• DoD 8570/8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level II (i.e., CompTIA Security+ ce, CCNA Security, CND, SSCP, etc.)
• 10+ years of specialized progressive experience in the field of Information Processing, including data management, information security, systems engineering, information systems architecture, knowledge management, enterprise information integration (EII), data analytics; business intelligence, information assurance, and information technology service management (ITSM)
• Experience delivering solutions with a wide range of hardware/software.
• 4+ years of concentrated, hand-on experience in installing, configuring, maintaining, and resolving issues with various software.
• Computing Environment certifications, one or more of the following: Computing Environment: Azure Administrator Associate, Windows Server Hybrid Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, MS .NET Developer Associate, Azure Enterprise Administrator Expert.
• Experience working on various operating systems such as Windows (10/11), Windows Server (2016-2022, includes Active Directory, Group Policy), Unix (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX), Linux, Amazon Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu CentOS, Rocky Linux, includes shell scripting, file systems, permissions), PowerShell/Bash scripting, etc.
• Experience with one or more programming languages, including SQL, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Golang, Rust, etc.
• Experience with Cloud Infrastructures/Hybrid Environments such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Colud and involves managing IaaS, PaaS and cloud migration.
• Experience with Virtualization and Containers, includes VMware vSphere/ESXi, Hyper-V, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with one or more of the following Oracle AWR, SQL Profiler, PostgreSQL, EXPLAIN, Performance Monitor, or similar tools.
• Experience with backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning, includes but not limited to RMAN (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server Always On, point-in-time recovery.
• Experience with one or more of the following: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, PowerShell DSC, Azure ARM Templates, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins.
• Experience with IP subnetting, firewalls, VPNs, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, load balances, and troubleshooting using Wireshark, netstat, traceroute, etc.
• Experience with securing sensitive data, includes encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access control (RBAC), auditing, data masking, failover clusters, replication, snapshots, RTO/RPO, etc.
• Experience with Patch Management, system hardening, log analysis, threat detection.
• Experience with monitoring and performance tuning, includes using system logs, event viewer, performance counters, and Nagios, Zabbix, SolarWinds, Prometheus.
• Familiarity with cloud database platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
   

Desired Skills & Certifications 

• Master of Arts or Science (MA / SS) Degree in relevant field.

Overview

BMA is an employee-owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, AL that provides superior customer service by empowering all levels of our staff to make timely decisions to produce high-quality results. BMA fosters an environment of passion, precision, and dedication in order to fulfill our commitments to our partners, government, and country.

Benefits

We believe that our employees well-being is paramount to our success so our benefits package has been crafted with that in mind. We offer multiple healthcare coverage options to include low deductible, high deductible, and plans eligible for our Health Savings Account (HSA) option. Along with medical coverage, employees have dental, vision, accident & illness, short- and long-term disability all available to them. BMA proudly maintains a 401(k) plan with an industry leading 6% match that can include profit sharing based on company performance. Lastly, being an employee-owned company means that BMA offers a 100% Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), providing eligible employees the opportunity to earn stock in BMA, subject to plan eligibility and vesting requirements. 

AAP & EEO Statement
 BMA is an Equal opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, religious creed, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, protected Veteran Status, genetics or any other characteristics protected by applicable Federal, State, or Local Law.