Linux Systems Admin

About the role

Iron Bow Technologies is for people who believe trust is paramount, transformation is embraced, and the future is here, because "What we do matters!"

We are a next generation solutions provider, delivering mission success across government, healthcare, and commercial industries. Iron Bow relies on our passionate people, long standing partnerships, and strategic thinking to solve your most critical challenges.

Whether we team with clients, colleagues, or partners, we put each other first. It’s The Iron Bow Way.

THE OPPORTUNITY (position overview)

Iron Bow Technologies is seeking a Linux Systems Administrator to join our team of Engineers providing onsite Systems Administrator/Virtualization Storage and Network support for our Federal customer in the DC Metro area, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. You will be one of the team members responsible for ensuring availability of client/server applications, configure new implementations, and support the development of processes and procedures for ongoing management of the server environment.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT

- You bring VMWare and vCenter management experience to provide monitoring, backup, restore, recovery, and tape library maintenance and operations of the virtual server environment across multiple locations.

- You will provide backup, redundancy, and availability of the virtualized server environment consisting of 200 Windows and Linux servers.

- You work well in a team environment and enjoy participating in internal Engineering Team and customer meetings and being engaged with senior team members to gain insight and knowledge into our customer’s environment.

- Participate in the Customer Change Boards and share details to include progress and impediments of assigned tasks.

- Support approved and assigned configuration/operational change tasks that are tracked and maintained in the ITSM and keep progress details updated in the change task.

- You work both independently and in a team environment, able to adapt to changing priorities, report on progress, including identifying impediments, while remaining focused on committed timelines.

- Provides coordinated 24x7 on-call support for time-sensitive needs (1 week per month rotation).

- Support the quarterly baseline image updates – support maintaining the updated Gold Image using MS MDT.

- Monitors databases for server/server resource issues, and ensures daily, weekly, monthly checks are completed, and internal operating procedures are followed.

- Recommends and executes approved modifications to the server environment to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance, and configures/deploys new client hardware/software applications

- Support planned and approved patch pushes to the Dev and Prod environments.

- Participates in research of server hardware, software, and protocols in support of the customer’s procurement and development efforts.