Systems Administrator

About the Position

Specialty Systems, Inc./Castellum has immediate openings for a Systems Administrator with the below described skills and experience to join our team of technical professionals supporting our Department of Defense customer at the Joint Base MDL-Lakehurst. You will be working as part of the Integrated Battlespace Simulation and Test Department, supporting the RDT&E network at NAVAIR Lakehurst. Ideal candidates will have a broad set of technical skills and must be able to work both individually and within a team environment. As a member of our team, you will be able to experience the professional satisfaction of playing a key role in ensuring that our Department of Defense customer’s systems that have a direct impact on our country’s warfighting and peace-keeping capabilities are performing at optimal levels.

This position is located at our customer site location at Joint Base MDL-Lakehurst. In this position, you will work our customer’s Compressed Work Schedule which consists of working four 9-hour days (M-Th) and an 8-hour day (F) for the first week of a cycle followed by four 9-hour days (M-Th) and being off on the second Friday for the second week of a cycle. This results in a 3-day weekend every other week!

Job responsibilities

• Provide general user system administration and IT helpdesk support.
• Provide support for all aspects of Windows workstation and server administration.
• Maintain network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning, troubleshooting network problems.
• Providing technical support by evaluating and resolving Windows server, and workstation problems.
• Maintain the Layer 1 infrastructure of the RDT&E network.
• Provide technical support by evaluating and resolving workstation and network problems.
• Ability to work independently to install new hardware from box to production in rack.

Position Qualification Requirements

Education, Certifications and Years of Experience:

• Must have at least 3 years’ experience performing a majority of the system administration functions listed above. It is preferred that at least 1 year of this experience be on Department of Defense IT systems.
• CompTIA Security+ certification (or the ability to obtain this certification within 60 days of hire) is required.
• Must have an active clearance at the Secret level with the ability to obtain a clear Single Scope Background Investigation. If no active clearance, must be able to obtain an interim secret level clearance prior to starting in this position.

Technical:

• Installing and configuring new systems from scratch.
• Experience patching systems to maintain proper cyber security protection posture.
• General experience with network switches, routers, network firewalls.
• Experience with Windows and Linux workstation administration.
• Prior experience performing administration on networks.
• Experience building and configuring new machine images.
• A solid overall information technology background.
• Experience working in a held help desk environment for ticket creation/resolution.
• Experience troubleshooting VPN issues for remote users.

Security Clearance Notice:

Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

Salary Range:

This position has a salary range of between $70,000 and $95,000, based on the candidate’s match to the skill and experience levels required.

Travel Requirements

Occasional travel may be required

Interested candidates should apply at:

https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=9b48099e-5421-4562-bf16-94dbcc630bbd&ccId=19000101_000001&type=JS&lang=en_US

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