Systems Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•Missouri City, TX

12d

About The Position

Systems Engineer The Opportunity: Your combination of people skills and system administrator expertise makes you the team hero, solving one problem after another. What if you could use those skills to improve the technology supporting National Security? We’re looking for a system administrator who specializes in operating, deploying, or administering Linux or Unix systems to help us deploy next-generation solutions for a safer and more secure digital landscape. As a system administrator on our project, you’ll help plan, develop, and perform lab, functional, and integration testing. You’ll provide your customers insight into their network through monitoring and performance management. Your system administrator expertise will be vital as you identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network. You’ll help your team better understand the network by turning metrics into information and explaining their meaning. This is an opportunity to broaden your skillset into areas like VMWare, Linux, Cisco, and Palo Alto. We focus on growing as a team, so you’ll share your expertise through leadership and mentoring as you help the team work through challenges and develop new methodologies. As a system administration leader, you’ll identify new opportunities to modernize the network so your clients achieve their goals. Work with us and resolve daily challenges as we improve the DoD's network access and application security architecture. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

5+ years of experience designing, deploying, and providing advanced support for multi-protocol and multi-vendor IP backbone and access network equipment and solutions, including Cisco, Palo Alto, Dell, HPE, or Juniper
Experience with converged and hyper-converged servers and hardware
Experience with enterprise-level management of hyper-converged infrastructure, vendor hardware, and software
Experience operating, deploying, or administering Linux or Unix systems
Experience applying STIGs to systems or security hardening of systems
Secret clearance
HS diploma or GED

Nice To Haves

Experience with DoD networks
Experience with standardized builds that are remotely deployable, including provisioning to a bare metal server or virtual machine
Knowledge of hybrid and cloud infrastructure, including hyper-converged technologies
CCNA, CCNP, VMWare, JNCIA, or JNCP Certification

Responsibilities

Plan, develop, and perform lab, functional, and integration testing.
Provide customers insight into their network through monitoring and performance management.
Identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network.
Turn metrics into information and explaining their meaning.
Share your expertise through leadership and mentoring as you help the team work through challenges and develop new methodologies.
Identify new opportunities to modernize the network so your clients achieve their goals.
Resolve daily challenges as we improve the DoD's network access and application security architecture.