Systems Engineer Sr Principal

SAIC
Aurora, IL

SAIC is looking for a Systems Administrator/Network Engineer/Spacecraft Command/Control Scheduler. Duties will include coordinating and managing end to end architecture by scheduling assets, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting networking equipment, servers and processing systems. End-to-end events will support testing, development, training, exercises, and real-world operations. This position is a direct interface with all users and sister agencies tabulating requirements, spotting trends, and developing usage metrics as needed by customers for mission execution.

  • Plan and execute space and ground segment schedules coordinating with other intelligence organizations
  • Monitor signal processor product generation ensuring flow of time critical data
  • Monitor and update all components of computer network software including software licenses, software version updates and anti-virus software as required
  • Configure and maintain firewalls, switches and servers in an operational environment
  • Troubleshoot network hardware issues
  • Responsible for network administration, fault detection and fault isolation services, network traffic monitoring and minimizing potential security threats
  • Troubleshoot hardware and software, run diagnostics, document network problems, outages and solutions, prioritizing fixes, and assess current and future impact of issues
  • Monitor and generate data analytics focused on improving network throughput performance
  • Communicate scheduling and networking issues to internal team, as well as Government Lead
  • Provide documentation and technical specifications to leadership for planning and implementing updates to end-to-end scheduling and networking software/hardware
  • Support development organization with the integration of network hardware, software, cybersecurity upgrades and recap efforts for networks and systems operating at various classification levels
  • Training and educating new users
  • Occasional on-call work (nights, weekends, and holidays)
  • Occasional travel required
  • Must have excellent speaking, listening and written communication skills
  • Team oriented and customer focused attitude is critical due to multiple networking locations and varied U.S. Government end users
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