# Systems Administrator

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: San Diego, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos' Corporate Information Security Office, reporting through the Digital sector, is seeking a Systems Administrator to support classified IT operations across a geographically distributed wide-area network (WAN) environment.

In this role, you will provide hands-on technical support for day-to-day WAN operations across a geographically distributed environment. The role focuses on independently troubleshooting routine issues, working with IT personnel at remote WAN sites, communicating technical status, and following issues through resolution.

**Primary Responsibilities**

- Systems administration: Support Windows 11, Windows Server, Active Directory, and VMware vSphere environments, including virtual machine administration, host management, troubleshooting, and routine maintenance.

- Security and encryption operations: Implement approved hardening and remediation with cybersecurity personnel.

- Linux and application support: Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu, primarily workstations with some server support.

- Operational follow-through: Use Jira as the primary intake and tracking mechanism.

- Remote-site technical support: Work with IT personnel at geographically dispersed WAN sites to troubleshoot technical issues.

- Technical troubleshooting and escalation: Troubleshoot routine server, storage, backup, connectivity, and service issues across distributed WAN locations.

- Deployments and modernization: Support approved server deployments, recovery testing, and potential virtualization migrations.

- Shared knowledge: Maintain runbooks, configuration records, and troubleshooting notes.

**Basic Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree with 4-8 years of experience or equivalent relevant industry-standard certifications and experience.

- Active, final Secret clearance, ability to maintain that clearance, and current DoD 8570 / 8140 IAT level II or higher certification.

- Hands-on Windows workstation and server administration, with strong Active Directory troubleshooting, user/group management, permissions, Group Policy, and DNS knowledge.

- Virtualization and recovery: Hands-on experience administering VMware, vSphere in an enterprise environment.

- Linux administration: Hands-on Linux experience, including familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu.

- Troubleshooting and judgment: Ability to isolate system and basic network-connectivity problems.

- Communication and teamwork: Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with technical teams.

- Operational discipline: Knowledge of change management procedures, roles, and responsibilities.

- Risk management: Experience with the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and maintaining compliance artifacts.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience in one or more of the following is helpful:

+ Virtual Environments and migrations: Practical Microsoft Hyper-V administration.   + Server, storage, and backup platforms: Dell PowerEdge, PowerStore, PowerProtect, or PowerVault administration.   + Applications and voice: Familiarity with SharePoint, Docker, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM).   + Classified and specialized operations: Experience supporting classified systems.   + Workflow and automation: Familiarity with Jira, distributed-site support, and PowerShell or Bash scripting.   + Cloud and continued learning: Introductory cloud knowledge, particularly AWS.

**Pay Range:** $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

## Skills

### Required
- Windows
- Active Directory
- VMware
- Linux
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Ubuntu
- Jira
- PowerShell
- Bash

### Nice to have
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Dell PowerEdge
- SharePoint
- Docker
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager
- AWS

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