What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Administrator 2 position at Cole Engineering Services?
Company Overview :
By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.
Cole Engineering Services (CESI), a By Light company, is recognized as a premier provider of modeling and simulation (M&S) training solutions to the Federal Government and industry. Since 2004, CESI has been at the forefront of developing, maintaining, and integrating simulation-based training, serious gaming, technical services, training and other support in live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVCG) domains. CESI also designs, builds and runs infrastructure, platforms, applications and processes that enable cyber training for the integrated multi-domain force. Our vision is to become a worldwide full spectrum LVCG and cyber training / analysis developer, integrator and services provider.
Position Overview :
CESI is seeking motivated technical candidates to support the management of a cutting-edge virtual private cloud environment in support of the US Department of Defense. The candidate will provide critical management of user credentials, provide help desk support to stakeholders, ensure software development teams have appropriate system resources, perform patching, manage system backups, and support critical DevSecOps functions, such as the install of cybersecurity controls and other related duties as assigned.
Required Experience / Qualifications :
- The candidate will ensure that authorized users have system accounts and the ability to access the appropriate system resources, specifically utilizing Red Hat IdM and Keycloack SSO products.
- Manage a virtualization environment based on VMWare ESXI, vSphere and vCenter.
- Manage an operating system and core application environment based on Kubernetes.
- Provides help desk support to internal and external users.
- Candidate must have an ability to rapidly triage user issues and resolve issues directly or when necessary, seek the appropriate engineering support to come to a resolution.
Required Skills :
VMware vCenter and ESXi, generally maintained at the most current version.
Preferred Experience :
Special Requirements / Security Clearance :
Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U. S. Citizenship status and a SECRET security clearance.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. The above is intended to describe the general contents of and requirements for the performance of this job.
Benefits Overview :
CESI recognizes that our strength is our people. We support every employee as an individual to build strong teams across the enterprise. Our benefit package includes :
Cole Engineering Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, political affiliation, age, marital status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, membership in an employee organization, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local laws.
