We are looking for a Senior Systems Administrator who can manage and guide a technical team to achieve a customer target for system availability of 99%.

**This is a pipeline requisition designed to collect resumes for potential upcoming work at AMERICAN SYSTEMS and does not represent a current opening.Qualified candidates will be contacted when an opening becomes available**

As a Senior Systems Administrator, you will:

• Be a key contributor to the success of our employee-owned company.
• Work with advanced, innovative technology.
• Join a team of engaged, highly knowledgeable professionals.
• Receive a robust benefits package, to include our .

A week in the life of a Senior Systems Administrator:

• Perform administration and maintenance of Windows based servers to include daily system checks and record 100% of findings and statuses on over 40 daily systems checks. You will be responsible for maintaining, reporting, and updating the daily checklists.
• Ensure all Microsoft Windows Server and applicable installed features/applications have the latest Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) STIGs applied within 30 calendar days of release. Annotate findings and remediation steps within checklists and upload to STIG management portals where available. Notify the Government and TTM of any critical findings that cannot be remediated within 3 days of discovery.
• Apply vendor security updates and hotfixes to address ACAS findings and organizational security mandates within 14 calendar days of notification of update availability.
• Respond to customer requests and contact customers by the end of the business day to confirm requirement receipt and provide an approximate time of completion.
• Provide Continuity of Operations (COOP) planning, evaluation, and execution of critical IT services biannually (twice per year) and update any required SOPs and instructions guides within five days of COOP exercise completion.
• Develop and maintain documentation which includes SOPs, TTPs, system architecture guides, and diagrams for all DAIIS systems and hardware configurations adhering to organizational templates and policies as required.
• Notify the Government of any unscheduled system outages within 30 minutes of each occurrence and record the outage to the operations log within four (4) hours.
• Ensure configuration management data is updated within one business day of any modification or update of infrastructure and report the updates/changes in our Monthly Status Reports
• Monitor and assume responsibility of trouble tickets assigned to the Systems Administration branch, assign specific tickets for resolution, and prioritize tickets in line with organizational goals of maintaining 99% system availability rate.
• Provide after-hours on-site support to respond to system/application malfunctions within 2 hours after notification of an issue to respond to the workplace.
  

• Active TS/SCI clearance with SBI and ability to attain SI, TK, G, HCS, and NATO Secret clearance
• 8 years of progressively responsible experience in server administration, including supporting and managing servers in a production environment.
• 8 years of experience on server administration in Microsoft (MS) Windows environments, including MS Windows Server 2016 and later configuration to include performance monitoring, tuning, and making recommendations to improve overall system performance and application efficiency.
• 5 years of experience in server administration applying systems patches and STIGs on a Microsoft (MS) Windows Server 2016 and later.
• 4 years of experience managing Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, DHCP.
• 4 years of experience using PowerShell and other scripting languages to automate common and repeating tasks.
• 3 years of experience serving as a team leader working as both part of a team and independently to assign/review immediate tasks, set priorities, maintain task progress, validate team members work consistent with the organizational goals and deadlines.
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MSCA) or Windows Server 2012/ Windows Server 2016 Certification
• DoD 8140.03 IAT Level II/Intermediate certification

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