Linux/Windows System Administrator

Amentum - Albuquerque, NM

Full-time

Albuquerque, NM

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Amentum is seeking a Linux/Windows System Administrator to support an IT Managed Services program in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This role involves managing and maintaining both physical and virtual server systems in a diverse IT environment, ensuring operational efficiency and security for classified and unclassified systems.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily monitoring, maintenance, and repair of physical and virtual server-based systems.
• Support incident escalations requiring considerable judgment and initiative to resolve technical issues affecting hardware, operating systems, or applications.
• Work with vendors or external partners to diagnose and resolve issues.
• Maintain systems by applying operating system or application patches, installing new or replacing hardware, and creating/applying configuration changes to improve or restore system performance.
• Develop instructions/procedures for System Administrators I & II.
• Create scripts to aid with daily monitoring, maintenance, and repair of supported systems.
• Conduct Quality Assurance checks.
• Perform system capacity analysis and planning.
• Assist users in accessing and using business systems.
• Install, configure, maintain, and monitor current automation and network tool suite.
• Ensure existing portfolio of network tools provides the ability to monitor, analyze, and identify workflow, traffic, and service impacts.
• Collaborate with high-performing teams in close coordination with internal and external partners to build, test, fix, deploy, and integrate new features and functionality.
• Perform trouble resolution activities.
• Update technical documents.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience, or an Associate's degree and 5 years of experience, or a High School degree/GED and 8 years of experience, or equivalent.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a TOP SECRET (TS) or DOE Q Government Clearance; US Citizenship is required.
• Hands-on experience supporting COTS software and services.
• Strong Red Hat Linux experience on servers (80/20 Red Hat/Windows server support).
• Familiarity with various operating systems, such as Unix, Linux, and Windows.
• Knowledge of various network equipment.
• Familiarity with automation.
• Experience maintaining the integrity of servers and systems to meet established requirements for service levels, disaster recovery, business continuity, and security.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with LAN/WAN equipment such as routers, switches, and protocol analyzers.
• Experience with Automation Development.
• Proficiency in a scripting language.
• Experience with Linux scripting and Python.
• Experience supporting network tools such as AKiPS, SecureCRT, Panorama, Ciena One Control, TACACS, and Radiator.