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Linux System Administrator 

EOE Statement We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.  
Category Information Technology  
Description

Dawson is a Native Hawaiian Organization 8(a) small business with 23 years of experience providing innovative and cost effective solutions to our clients across the globe. As part of the DAWSON Ohana, you will be provided a best-in-class benefits program that strives to ensure our great people have peace of mind when it comes to health and wellness.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The System Administrator III position is located at Ft. Meade MD. The position provides enterprise services, server build and administration services to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). This position will provide support for the enhancement, maintenance, and security of the DISA network, enterprise level solutions, and IT services from the unclassified to Top/Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information classifications.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Serve as a Virtualization Administrator specializing in Amazon AWS and MilCloud 2 plus and its various tools
  • Install, configure and manage virtualization environments
  • Performs a variety of tasks to include identifying servers to be virtualized, creating test environments, validation, and maintaining virtual infrastructure
  • Analyzes systems requirements in response to customer requirements, risks, and costs by working directly with management and System Administrators
  • Evaluates new systems information technologies and their effect on the environment
  • Ensures that cyber security and OPSEC policies, principles, and practices are an integral element of the operating environment
  • Integrates hardware and software components within the systems environment
  • Continually monitors and fine-tunes performance of the Information Systems
  • Conducts analyses of network usage, user complaints, traffic interruptions, hardware and software capabilities, and other relevant factors
  • Identifies adverse trends, ineffective practices or procedures, equipment shortcomings, etc.
  • Apply Information Technology (IT) expertise, including feasibility studies, technical evaluation, justification, acquisition/procurement, installation, implementation, management, and administration of IT systems
  • Work is performed in a complex IT network environment involving support to geographically dispersed sites and locations
  • Manage and maintain various Linux distributions, Apache, NGINX, network monitoring tools, configuration management tools, ELK stack and other GOTS/COTS
  • Services include, but are not limited to, service life-cycle maintenance of system, implementing reporting features, correcting system errors, upgrades, and user training
  • Creates, updates and follows SOPs and other documentation
  • Maintain the security posture by performing IAVA mitigation on all CAT I, II, and III findings as identified
  • Utilize infrastructure monitoring technologies (ex. Splunk, SolarWinds, Nagios, IBM QRadar)

 
Position Requirements

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

  • MUST possess an active Top Secret Clearance
  • BA or BS degree in Computer Science preferred or relevant work experience
  • 3+ years of experience with System Administration and Information Assurance Support
  • Baseline certification: Security+ CompTIA commercial certification (or higher, such as CISSP is a plus)
  • Computing Environment (CE):
    • Installing and Configuring Linux systems and AWS AMIs
    • AWS certification highly desired
  • Possession of any of the following system administration certifications desired
    • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
    • Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle Linux System Administrator
    • VMware Certified Professional 6 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV) is a plus
 
Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time  
Shift -not applicable-  
Position System Administrator III  
Number of Openings 3  
Exempt/Non-Exempt Exempt  
About the Organization DAWSON is a SBA Certified Native Hawaiian Organization (NHO) 8(a) small business with over 23 years of experience providing innovative and cost-effective solutions to our clients across the globe with offices in Hawaii, Guam and throughout the Continental U.S. The company is owned by the Hawaiian Native Corporation (HNC), a non-profit organization, controlled entirely by Native Hawaiians with a mission to perpetuate the sovereignty of Native Hawaiians and positively impact the communities in which we work. The HNC's vision of community impact is carried forward by its DAWSON subsidiaries.

DAWSON's strong entrepreneurial spirit, client focus, and commitment to 'Kupono Ka Hana' - Excellence in Service - has enabled the firm to rapidly expand our service offerings and geographic breadth of capabilities with core competencies in Construction, Environmental/MMRP, Professional Services, Logistics, IT/Cybersecurity, and National Security/Intelligence. DAWSON has a staff of highly skilled personnel, in-place management systems and strategically situated offices and partners enabling us to respond to the world's emerging needs. DAWSON possesses a unique capability to deliver integrated and innovative solutions to our Federal and commercial clients and provides our federal customers facilitated contracting access through our SBA-certified NHO 8(a) status.


We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. VEVRAA FEDERAL CONTRACTOR  

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