At ARA, we strive to hire valuable colleagues with not only the right skills, but also demonstrate our core values of intellectual curiosity, passion, freedom to control your career, service, and personal growth. As a Senior Systems Administrator, you will work with team members to deploy, optimize, and maintain enterprise geospatial systems including databases, tools, and applications, and provide user support. You will maintain and optimize on-premises hardware and cloud-deployed systems. You will also assist in the security accreditation process, patching, and maintenance including security scans. Experience as a Systems Administrator to include physical and cloud-based systems, migration and recapitalization, monitoring and backup and recovery is highly desired.

Senior Systems Administrator Required Experience:

• Current and active Top Secret security clearance with a recent SCI (within the last two years)
• Bachelor's Degree to higher along with 10 years of relevant intelligence experience OR 18 years of experience in lieu of a degree
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Experience deploying, maintaining and managing geospatial tools and applications including Google Earth Enterprise and the ESRI stack
• Familiarity with Geospatial Database administration
• Experience with the Sponsor's Security Accreditation Process
• Experience with AWS cloud services, application development and migration processes

Who is ARA?

Do you want to work for a purpose? Applied Research Associates, Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company. We have been providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences since 1979. ARA has over 2,207 employee owners and continues to grow rapidly. Together, our offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.

ARA also prides itself, on having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norm. The motto, "Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit" sums up the ARA experience. Employee ownership ensures you have a voice with what happens in the company. We are also very proud of our Women's Initiative Network (WIN), whose purpose is to motivate, support, and encourage professional career development for women to maximize career and professional accomplishments.

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