Clearance Level: Active Secret clearance with TS/SCI Eligibility
Education: Bachelors with 5 years of experience, or equivalent work experience
Location: San Antonio, TX US (Primary)
Travel: 0 - 10%

Responsibilities

AMS Technologies is seeking a System Administrator to support the team in San Antonio, TX.  The System Administrator will be responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and detecting Cyber system events and incidents within Systems Integration Lab systems and networks under general supervision.

• Determines system and security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements; researching information security standards; conducting system security and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments; studying architecture/platform; identifying integration issues; preparing cost estimates. Implements security systems by specifying intrusion detection methodologies and equipment; performing equipment and software installation and calibration; preparing preventive and reactive measures; creating, transmitting, and maintaining keys; providing technical support; completing documentation.
• Verifies security of systems by using STIGs and ACAS.
• Maintains security by monitoring and ensuring compliance to standards, policies, and procedures; conducting incident response analyses; developing and conducting training programs.
• Responsible for the development, implementation, and integration of a DoD IA architectures, systems, or system components for use within computing, network, and enclave environments.
• Ensure that the architecture and design of development and operational systems are functional and secure. This includes designs for program of record systems and special purpose processing nodes with platform IT interconnectivity.
• Test and implement complex VMWare environments to include creating datacenters, clusters, distributed switches, configuring HA and FT, and vSAN.
• Troubleshoot issues that arise in vCenter / ESXi with minimal downtime to customer.
• Update architectural documentation and drawings.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance with TS/SCI Eligibility
• Bachelors with 5 years of experience, or equivalent work experience.  At least 3 years of increasingly complex and progressive experience in computer systems administration.
• Strong understanding of VMWare and all associated tools / features (i.e., vSAN, HA, FT, etc.)
• Strong understanding of Windows domain environment and administration (i.e., Domain Controllers, Certificate Authorities, DNS, DHCP, etc.)
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Experience with Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
• Experience with Windows Server Update Service (WSUS)
• Experience operating virtual environment
• Experience with VMWare (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter)
• Experience with Linux (RHEL and Ubuntu) and Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019
• Experience with TCP/IP
• Experience working with stakeholders to analyze systems requirements
• Experience applying NIST standards and STIGs to secure systems configurations
• Familiarization with implementing systems solutions for cloud and hybrid applications
• Familiar with out-of-band management for servers
• Clearance:  Secret with TS/SCI Eligibility
• Certification 8570/8140 IAT II (required within 6 months)
• Other duties as assigned

Desired

• VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
• Microsoft Certification (MCP, MCSE, MCSA)
• CompTIA Security+ (Security+)
• Experience with Security Onion
• Experience implementing, and managing VPNs, and firewalls
• Experience with COTS or open-source Network Security Monitoring Solutions or the Air Force's Cyber Vulnerability and Hunt Weapons System
• Familiarization with Jira, Confluence
• Familiarization with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Scrum

Certifications

• Certification 8570/8140 IAT II (required within 6 months)
• Preferred Certifications: VMware Certified Professional (VCP), CompTIA Security+ (Security+), Microsoft Certification

Talent @ AMS
AMS Technologies

Please contact us with any questions:

Email:
Talent@amstechnologiescorp.com

Phone:
(w) 410-840-7358