System Administrator (MUST HAVE Top Secret/SCI)

Systems Administrator 

Job Location: Onsite – Arlington, VA 

Job Type: Full time, 10% travel 

Salary Target: $160,000 - $170,000 

Minimum Clearance: US Citizen holding an active Top Secret/SCI clearance 

Xenith Solutions is a small mission-focused business serving Federal / Civilian, Defense and Intelligence organizations with superior service. If you want to be a part of a rapidly growing business with an exceptional culture, then you want to be a part of the Xenith Solutions family. 

Xenith Solutions is seeking a Systems Administrator to join our team in support of a government contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) focused on the Joint Fires Network (JFN). 

Job Description: 

We are seeking a highly skilled Systems Administrator to join our team and provide essential development and support to strategic initiatives. 

Required Qualifications: 

• • Minimum 5 years’ system administration experience (server and desktop security implementation and management and software development IT infrastructure setup and management) 
• • Knowledge of U.S. Government computers, networks, and security 
• • Past experience administering server-side technology and networked computing systems. 
• • Ability to prioritize a wide range of workloads with critical deadlines. 

Duties and Responsibilities, but not limited to: 

• • Responsible for asset installation/configuration, operation and maintenance of systems hardware, software, and related infrastructure. 
• • Configure and manage operating systems (Windows and Linux), applications (commercial and government), networks (IPs, subnets, etc.), and network equipment (switches) 
• • Configure and manage DOD and IC standard distributed authentication services 
• • Build up systems from "bare metal" in alignment with accredited baselines 
• • Ensure that system hardware, operating systems, software systems and related procedures adhere to government policies. 
• • Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions. 
• • Perform daily backup operations. 
• • Perform regular file archival and purge, as necessary. 
• • Create, change, and delete user accounts per request. 
• • Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades and resource optimization, as required. 
• • Repair and recover from hardware or software failures for multiple sites. 
• • Establishes, documents, and monitor the government’s cyber security program implementation plan. 
• • Maintain facility video distribution system and displays. 
• • All other tasks and duties as assigned
• • Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills. 
• • Patient and professional demeanor, with a can-do attitude. 
• • Familiarity with DNS / DHCP / Kickstart / LDAP / Kubernetes / Red Hat 7&8 / Windows 10 / ACAS / Rancher / Grafana / Cloud Security Gateway 
• • Maintain and create system documentation. 
• • Willingness to learn new technologies. 
• • Ability to surge hours worked through events 
• • Able to create simple scripts (i.e. powershell or bash) 
• • Ability to automate installation, configuration, and provisioning using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef. 
• • Ability to configure and manage operating systems (Windows and Linux), applications (commercial and government), networks (IPs, subnets, etc.), and network equipment (switches) 
• • Ability to configure and manage DOD and IC standard distributed authentication services 
• • Advantageous to have knowledge of DOD and IC network infrastructures 
• • Knowledge of Joint IO Range, Defense Research and Engineering Network, and other similar environments beneficial 
• • Cybersecurity Management Certification (CISSP, CISM), Cybersecurity IAT-2 level Technical Certification (Security+, GSEC, etc.) 
• • Risk Management Framework (RMF) accreditation experience