SAIC Inc. has an immediate opportunity for a Senior System Administrator part time position (20 hours a week) requiring a Position of Public Trust clearance located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The core responsibilities include designing, deploying, and troubleshooting VMware vSphere environments, alongside administering both Windows and Linux operating systems
The successful candidate is a team player, able to effectively manage their time, willing to learn new technologies, and work with limited supervision. In addition, the qualified candidate will work with other Information Technology team members to ensure continuous network operations.
This is a contractor position supporting a federal government contract.
Core responsibilities and duties, day-to-day activities include:
- Manage the administrative and design tasks for virtualized server infrastructure, which includes deploying, configuring, and maintaining the VMware environment.
- Design, deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot VMware vSphere infrastructure, specifically performing capacity planning and health checks for ESX hosts and virtual machines.
- Install ESX Servers, vCenter Server, and vSphere Client, and create datastores for data and VM storage.
- Configure Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and High Availability (HA), utilize vMotion, manage backups, and perform physical-to-virtual (P2V) and virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversions.
- Deploy virtual machines, manage templates, clones, and snapshots, and migrate VMs across hosts within HA clusters for maintenance purposes.
- Perform high-level daily operational maintenance and complex software installations for operating systems, workstations, and servers, continually monitoring and tuning them to achieve optimal performance.
- Administer and integrate Linux platforms and Windows systems, including Microsoft Active Directory.
- Proactively identify vulnerabilities and perform software and hardware upgrades, such as installing Windows server patches and hotfixes.
- Collaborate with Network Engineering, Security and other System Administrators to determine and develop systems for implementation.
- Evaluate new products, recommend updates and provide customer support.
