The candidate should have experience with installation, configuration, and networking of UNIX and/or NT based platforms. Experience includes: creating, modifying, and deleting user accounts, performing system back ups and maintaining system configuration files. The candidate should have a full understanding of operating systems and have knowledge with either UNIX or NT commands or utilities at the user level. Experience also includes the installation and configuration of hardware, operating systems, and commercial software packages. Need to be able to develop and implement enterprise backup/recovery strategies, server configuration, and consolidation, and verification of the health and status of the entire IT infrastructure. Should be able to support for the enterprise services such as DNS, NFS, e-mail services, security protection mechanisms, and the interoperability of UNIX and NT based systems.

Candidates need to have the experience with installation, configuration, tuning, and support of:

• Servers running Sparc Solaris, SolarisX64, red hat, and SuSe, with direct attached and FC SAN storage
• Client server technology utilizing NFS and CIFS
• Large memory SMP systems with many cores
• Enterprise client server configurations
• Multi-vendor filesystems such as XFS, GPFS, and CXFS
• Fielded systems
• Blade systems and associated interconnects (SAD, FC, TCP/IP)
• Red Hat and Microsoft Windowns operating system
• Microsoft exchange
• Centrify
• Infrastructure support services such as DNS, NIS, Active Directory, Centrify, Zenoss, SiteScope, HP Openview, HPSA, HPSE, Splunk, Sendmail, Exchange, NetQoS, Infoblox
• Thin client solutions based on Virtual bridges and Centrix
• NoMachine NX
• Virtualizing products: VMware and Solaris containers
• Accpeted professional certifications: valid RHCSA or higher Red Hat certification, VMWare certification

The candidate should have a BS degree in computer science or related discipline, 8 years of demonstrable experience in system administration and support of a large client-server based IT enterprise. The candidate should have 5 years of full time computer science work which can be used to substitute the BS degree, and have 8 years of demonstrable experience in system administration and support of a large client-server based IT enterprise. If the candidate has an industry recognized professional certification it can substitute for 1 year experience

TS/SCI clearance with poly