Senior Systems Administrator

Ho'olaulima Government Solutions LLC (HGS) is a Small Business Administration-certified, Native Hawaiian Organization-Owned, 8(a) Small Business which provides services and solutions in the areas of Cybersecurity Services, Information Technology Services, Professional and Technical Services, Environmental Services, and Healthcare Services to the Department of Defense and other Federal agencies.

HGS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Kina'ole Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit established to benefit Native Hawaiian communities.

You will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Professional training reimbursement
• 401K
• Disability insurance
• ...and much, much more!

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining operating system workstations and servers, including web servers, in support of business processing requirements.
• Performs software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages.
• Schedules installations and upgrades and maintains them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures.
• Monitors and tunes the system to achieve optimum performance levels.
• Ensures workstation/server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions.
• Ensures data/media recoverability by implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations.
• Develops and promotes standard operating procedures.
• Conducts routine hardware and software audits of workstations and servers to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines.
• Develops and maintains a comprehensive operating system hardware and software configuration database/library of all supporting documentation. 
• Coordinate with other field engineers and support/maintain systems currently deployed such as:
  • Skype for Business Server and client installations
  • SQL Server
  • SharePoint Server
  • Exchange
  • Azure Stack
  • System Center
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

• Eight years of work experience building, managing and maintaining IT systems in a production environment as described above.
• Configure and monitor systems/servers utilizing Remote Server Administrative Tools (RSAT).
• Systems/equipment installation, configuration, implementation, and validation of installation of components such as:
• Microsoft (current Version) Hyper-V Manager
• Microsoft's System Center monitoring components/methods
• Mass storage arrays and servers
• Dell OpenManage essentials
• Author and utilize scripting languages, such as PowerShell, to automate tedious, repetitive, and/or error prone tasks related to installation, configuration, and management of IT systems and services
• Installation and management of systems via hypervisors and virtualization sub-systems
• Support a variety of networking, storage, virtualization, and other components that may span across multi-generational deployments
• Evaluate effectiveness of existing technologies on site, and consider emerging technologies
• Maintain cloud (examples: Azure, AWS) infrastructure systems
• Maintain on premise cloud (examples: Azure, AWS, OpenStack) infrastructure systems
• Add, configure, and manage Roles and Features on Microsoft Server (current Version) including but not limited to:
  • DHCP Server
  • DNS Server
  • File and Storage Services
  • Print and Document Services
  • Remote Desktop Services
• Windows Server Update Services
• .NET Framework
• Failover Clustering
• Remote Server Administration Tools
• Windows PowerShell
• Configure and monitor systems/servers utilizing Windows Admin Center
• Configure and monitor systems/servers utilizing Failover Cluster Manager tools
• Must possess an active Top Secret Clearance

Preferred Skills:

• Microsoft (current Version) Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
• Microsoft (current Version) Failover Clustering
• Microsoft's System Center monitoring components/methods
• Containers
• Data Center Bridging
• Group Policy Management
• Skype for Business Server and client installations
• SQL Server
• SharePoint Server
• Exchange
• System Center

HGS is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.