Senior Systems Administrator

Senior Systems Administrator

Information Technology Strategies, Inc. is a government IT solutions provider servicing commercial and government initiative in various parts of the United States. We are currently seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to work for our company.

Summary:

• Client Agency is Defense Logistics Agency
• Ensures the stable operation of DLA's Okta environments.
• This includes planning, developing, installing, configuring, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing all network software and communication links within DLA's Okta footprint. Organizes and directs the configuration and operation of DLA's Okta.
• Analyzes and resolves end user software program and connectivity issues.
• Conducts capacity and performance analysis and provides system configuration change and upgrade recommendations.
• Increases system administrator efficiency and accuracy via the use of automated tools and scripts, develops system administrator procedures, and conducts system administrator training and skills assessment.
• Provides end user training.
• Provides recommendations on technology direction to align with business vision.
• Provides local and remote maintenance support to various operational systems within the DLA Okta footprint.
• Support includes general maintenance, upgrades, and new installs of servers and applications.
• Directs the work of other system administrators to provide the day-to-day system administration to include system and resource optimization, and user assistance.
• Applies advanced technical knowledge of application networking, including load balancing applications, and ensuring fault tolerance.

Requirements:

• Must possess IT-II security clearance or have a current National Agency Check with Local Agency Check and Credit Check (NACLC).(Basic Federal Clearance requirements are U.S. Citizenship, clear criminal history check, no recent or pending bankruptcies)
• Relevant Okta certification from a nationally recognized technical authority.
• Five (5) years of overall professional experience supporting Okta environments with progressively higher responsibility in the IT field.
• Proposed Okta administrators shall be fully trained with demonstrable experience deploying and maintaining Okta environments for large enterprises.
• Personnel will also be well-versed in configuring Okta integrations to work with typical enterprise technologies like Active Directory, firewalls, APIs, Zero Trust endpoints, etc.
• Oral presentation experience and excellent oral and written communication skills.