Systems Administrator

Group 52 develops artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, technologies, and systems for extracting information from multimedia data in adverse conditions. Group members have previously developed advanced AI-based technologies to achieve world-leading performance in automatic speech, speaker, and language recognition for automatically identifying the speaker and the word and language spoken. We have successes in natural language processing for automatically identifying the author, language, entities (such as people, places, organizations, and events), and topic in the content of communications. Our human-network AI technologies automatically extract information from speech, text, image, and video data combined with network communications and activities and are used by the Department of Defense and law enforcement to identify threatening or illicit activity on the surface and dark web. Recent focus areas for our group include adversarial AI and counter AI to support operations in contested environments. Our group is widely recognized for its strong publications in journals and conferences. We emphasize AI, machine learning, technology transition to government in operational environments, and technology evaluation with operationally relevant metrics and datasets.


Job Description

Group 52 is seeking an IT Systems Administrator to support IT activities for end-users, high-performance compute environments as well as both classified and unclassified processing systems. As a Systems Administrator in Group 52, you will administer Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Apple Macintosh desktop environments (including Windows 11 and macOS/iOS 26 or later). You will be responsible for the support, installation, maintenance, repair and upgrade of computer and network equipment; reviewing and testing new hardware and software applications; as well as make purchase recommendations. You will design and implement scripts and automation tools (such as ansible) to perform configuration management and monitoring of systems and networks; collect and processes capability requirements from technical research staff to inform and provide IT support to new and ongoing research by improving data storage, backup and recovery, network bandwidth throughput, and service application installation and management. The role requires regular collaboration with enterprise-level IT and security personnel and resources to enhance technology support practices in addition to maintain regular contact with enterprise-level teams to rapidly reconfigure systems, report, and remediate performance and security issues. Domestic travel to field sites (<10% per year) may be required.

Roles and Responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Install, configure, maintain and upgrade Linux (Red Hat and Ubuntu) workstations/servers, Windows 11 PCs, and macOS devices.
• Provide troubleshooting to a group of 50 staff for hardware, OS, and application issues; manage user accounts, group policy, and permissions via ActiveDirectory/LDAP
• Design, develop, and maintain automation scripts and tooling; contribute to configuration-management frameworks (Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
• Administer data-storage solutions, backup schedules, and disaster-recovery procedures; validate backup integrity and perform restoration testing
• Evaluate new hardware/software, conduct proof-of-concept testing, and generate purchase recommendations
• Participate in efforts that enhance research compute capacity, storage scalability, and network performance; utilize system-monitoring systems
• Produce documentation and knowledge-base articles for technical staff and end-users on systems

Requirements

Requirements:

• BS in Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience (4 years or more)
• Minimum 4 years of IT systems administration experience supporting enterprise environment
• Minimum 5 years experience administering enterprise GNU/Linux workstation/server environments (including Red Hat and Ubuntu distributions)
• Strong knowledge of Linux (systemd, SELinux, package management)
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a SECRET level DoD security clearance (if not already)
• Willingness to obtain TS/SCI clearance
• Work on-site 80% of the time

Desired Knowledge:

• Linux (Ubuntu preferred) connected to ActiveDirectory/LDAP via sssd
• MacOS/iOS/Windows troubleshooting
• ServiceNow or similar support ticket management/triage systems
• CompTIA Security+ Certification
• Experience with AWS GovCloud environments
• Experience with Microsoft Teams, MS365, OneDrive, and SharePoint platforms (administration experience a plus)
• VMware or Hyper-V administration experience

Hiring Range: $95,700 -$126,700

Disclaimer: MIT Lincoln Laboratory provides a typical hiring range as a good faith estimate of what we reasonably expect to offer for this position at the time of posting. The final salary offered to a selected candidate will depend on various factors, including-but not limited to-the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, skills and education/training, internal equity considerations and applicable legal requirements. This range reflects base salary only and does not include additional forms of compensation or benefits.

At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, our exceptional career opportunities include many outstanding benefits to help you stay healthy, feel supported, and enjoy a fulfilling work-life balance. Benefits offered to employees include:

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
• MIT-funded pension
• Matching 401K
• Paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.)
• Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs
• Mentorship programs
• A range of work-life balance options
• ... and much more!

Please visit our Benefits page for more information. As an employee of MIT, you can also take advantage of other voluntary benefits, discounts and perks.

Selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret level DoD security clearance.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or genetic information; U.S. citizenship is required.

Requisition ID: 42833