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System Administrator installs, upgrades and monitors software and hardware. This individual will maintain the operating systems, business applications, security tools, web-servers, local and wide area networking both hardware and software and mid-range server hardware for our client.
Responsibilities:
Administering and monitoring of switches and routers
Administering local subversion and git repositories for project source code, system configuration, software, and documentation revision control.
Standing up a new cloud environment
Maintaining development, test, and production environments
Required qualifications:
BS in Computer Science or scientific field (engineering, physics), or equivalent experience
Experience with network architecture, security, application and database software installation and maintenance.
Experience configuring, automating, provisioning, monitoring, and managing/reporting compliance for software, hardware networks, communications circuits, storage, and backup/recovery in an agile environment.
Experience using one or more of the following: Citrix, VMware, Linux, Shell Scripting, open source hosting tools, Cisco Networking, provisioning and deploying software. Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Experience with Python, Javascript, and Java.
Experience with Open Source tools including Mongo, and Docker Containers; experience with monitoring and management software (e.g. Splunk, Nagios, NetFlow, SolarWinds).
Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust level clearance