Senior System Administrator (Linux/Unix)

Overview

Are you a Senior Systems Administrator who would like to have a positive impact for millions of people? If so, we may have an opportunity for you!

TISTA associates enjoy above Industry Healthcare Benefits, Remote Working Options, Paid Time Off, Training/Certification opportunities, Healthcare Savings Account & Flexible Savings Account, Paid Life Insurance, Short-term & Long-term Disability, 401K Match, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Paid Holidays, Military Leave, and much more!

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain operating system shell scripts to ensure various reports, Coordinates with Project Managers to set/adjust schedules for after hour patching,
• Assist with systems hardware/software acquisitions and maintenance, planning activities to include complex systems involving interagency coordination.
• Manages teams of system admins and is able to prioritize work and identify high risk critical problems and dedicate appropriate resources
• Must provide patching support and maintain systems, manually or by using automated tools in accordance with VA Regulations, Organizational directives, handbooks, Policies and procedures.  
• Works with ServiceNow (SNOW) and the Service Desk Manager automated tool, to assign and work incident tickets and after hour patching scheduling and application, prepares Change Request for work on all Servers, monitors the Incident Que and Triage emails or problems submitted by customers, reviews system configuration, implementation plans, oversees and provide support for provisioning, configuration management, virtual machine administration, directory services, volume management, system monitoring on both Linux Systems and Servers, addressing after core hour system outages, and other OS related processes and procedures.
• Serves as part of the technical team of Linux/Unix System Administrators (SA) who oversees, manage and assists in the installation and integration of servers, applications and services in support of over 250 VA applications.  This consists of but is not limited to: applying vulnerability mitigation strategies, systems fixes, updates, and enhancements; troubleshooting failed environments, create servers and assigning storage shares, perform hardware and OS maintenance and participating in application development meeting as needed, represent the Linux/Unix Managers Service Line troubleshooting the System or enterprise outage throughout swings and performs proper incident handoff to the next shifts Senior Linux SA team lead, and facilitates discussion with Red Hat Linux TAM as required/necessary.

Qualifications

• Must be able to create plans to assure effective management, operations, and maintenance of systems and/or networks.   
• Have extensive knowledge of a wide variety of systems and networks to include high volume/high availability systems.  
• Must have Mastery knowledge in Red Hat Linux and Solaris Unix OS's, must be capable working independently and/or with other services line and technology leads on assigned tasks, actions supporting Linux/Unix Divisional Operations using automation tools, provisioning, virtualization, configuration management, security, clustering, backups, networking, disaster recovery, volume management, file system management, storage management, as well as disk and network I/O requirements.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or related technical discipline and 5 years’ work experience
• Eight (8) years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education (13 years total)

Clearance: 

• The ability to pass a Tier 4/HIGH Background Investigation

Location:

• Department of Veteran's Affairs (100% On-site)
• Sunday - Thursday  (11:30 PM - 8:00 AM EST Time)
• Philadelphia Information Technology Center (PITC)
• VA-PITC, 5000 Wissahickon Ave.,
• Philadelphia, PA 19144