Systems Administrator - T2

Location: Beltsville, MD, US

Employment Type: OTHER

Overview

Looking to make a difference, to help keep people safe, or even to save lives through your work with technology? Join Acuity’s team of experts to have an impact on our government’s critical missions. Acuity, Inc. is a consulting firm that supports federal agencies in the areas of IT Modernization, Data Enablement, and Hyperautomation. We are looking for a Systems Administrator to join our team!

 

We are hiring for the following shift:

• Sun - Thu (7 am to 3:30 pm ET)
• Backend Nights (6 am to 6:30 pm local time)Thurs, Fri, Sat, every other Wednesday

 

Why Acuity?

Are you ready to use your expertise in the areas of IT Modernization, Data Enablement, and Hyperautomation to make a real difference? Join Acuity, Inc., a technology consulting firm that supports federal agencies. We combine industry partnerships and long-term federal experience with innovative technical leadership to support our customers’ critical missions.

Responsibilities

• Perform system implementation, troubleshooting, and administration activities.
• Installation, training, support, monitoring, and maintenance of hardware and software.
• Troubleshooting and resolution of problems as well as the communication, tracking, and reporting of these efforts.
• Performing imaging, restores, and ongoing management of systems, software, and hardware.
• Creating, maintaining, tracking, and communicating configurations and/or changes of configurations in hardware, software, data, permissions (or security-related information), etc.
• Providing development, maintenance, and communication of diagrams, system configurations, and technical documentation.
• Providing technical support for testing and evaluation.
• Responsible for the full lifecycle of design through implementation of enterprise and business specific solutions involving conceptual and logical architecture.
• Create prototypes and perform technology evaluations.
• Ensures Windows application hosts and SQL database hosts comply with applicable system security standards
• Works with information assurance teams to ensure system accreditation
• Plans for and performs any required Windows server configuration changes
• Analyzes monitoring data for performance optimization opportunities
• Develops and implements system performance monitoring processes
• Maintains current industry knowledge of development concepts, best practices and procedures for server operations and maintenance
• Works as part of a team on client engagements.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology (or equivalent related field experience)
• 5+ years Windows server experience (2012, 2016, 2019)
• Must have a minimum of five (5) Years specialized experience in Systems Administration supporting MS SQL Server, MS System Center (SCCM), O365/SharePoint and MS Azure
• Knowledge of Windows OS, Active Directory, Registry, Group Policy Objects
• Proficiency scripting in PowerShell or equivalent

Desired Qualifications:

• Microsoft Server or Infrastructure Certification(s) (or equivalent work experience)
• Remedy Action Request Server, and ITSM experience
• SQL database experience
• ITIL® Foundations certification
• Security+ certification
• Prior experience in a consulting environment
• Preference for experience with mentoring and training staff

Clearance Requirements:

• Active clearance required (Secret OR Top Secret)

 

Min

USD $90,000.00/Yr.

Max

USD $130,000.00/Yr.

Salary Range

The salary range for this position represents Acuitys good faith estimate of the compensation for this job title at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidates qualifications, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, contract requirements, applicable labor categories, and, where applicable, contract award and funding.