Senior System Administrator

Senior System Administrator - Quantico, VA (Onsite) YSI Jobs - YSI Admin Job Description ID Job Title Job Description 99912 Senior System Administrator Yakshna Solutions, Inc., (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serve its business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training, and professional development assistance. YSI is seeking a Senior System Administrator to provide comprehensive technical support for on-premise servers, storage area networks, and network attached storage, as well as cloud-based storage solutions and virtual computing environments across both classified and unclassified domains. System Administrators will also Responsibilities Manage the right sizing of virtual machines and make recommendations for additional hardware to increase performance or capacity. Assisting the agency with its ongoing activities of migrating systems and resources to an approved cloud enclave including but not limited to migrating data, systems, application, and network storage objects on an as needed basis. Create a back-up plan and schedule for mission-critical data and infrastructure configuration data, and a recovery plan that illustrates recovery from catastrophic system failure utilizing data from back-ups. Develop and maintain a history of past recoveries performed whether from real world system failures or quarterly data recovery samples. Required Skills & Experience Bachelor’s (or higher) degree in IT Management, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related discipline; equivalent professional experience will also be considered. At least 3 years of specialized experience in system administration within Federal/Department of War (DoW) environments, with specific expertise in typical server platforms (Red Hat Linux and similar), virtualization platforms (VMWare and similar), backup applications (Commvault and similar) Expert-level knowledge in typical server platforms (Red Hat Linux and similar), virtualization platforms (VMWare and similar), backup applications (Commvault and similar) Expert-level knowledge of backup and recovery best practices applicable to a highly distributed enterprise Expert-level knowledge of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning processes including execution of restoral of enterprise services at an alternate operations center or site Knowledge of applicable NIST publications including SP 800-53 rev5, SP 800-34 rev1, NIST SP 800-209, and related documents Certifications: CompTIA Cloud+CE, Server+CE, and/or Security+CE, Red Hat Certified System Administrator, Windows Server Adminstrator, VMWare Certified Professional (Data Center or Cloud Management), CommVault Certified Professional Active Top Secret clearance required. US Citizen or Green card holder only YSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. #J-18808-Ljbffr Yakshna Solutions