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Maxar is currently seeking a Systems Administrator to join our team in Herndon, VA. In this role, you will work on a diversified, distributed team supporting solutions in numerous operating domains. Our services are foundational to mission success and help us realize the opportunities we seek to harness our capabilities for a better world.Life With UsSupport the Mission: We are responsible for the deployment and support of 24x7 runtime systems that help our Commercial and Government partners realize value in our unique solutions to problems that are global in scale. We provide Space Infrastructure and Earth intelligence services for customers ranging from startups to humanitarian organizations to Government intelligence markets.Your Career: Maxar has an established customer base with existing infrastructure solutions and will to continue to adapt to changing customer needs by exploring M&A activities and new technology development. In this role, you will focus on supporting on-premise infrastructure IT Linux and Windows systems and explore hybrid and cloud-based operating models to better serve the needs of our partners. We operate at considerable scale (this is not your father's server room) both on-premise and in AWS. We are focused on growing competencies internally to support emerging technology trends. Team development, automation, cloud economics, and M&A integration are examples of opportunities to develop and distinguish yourself.What Makes Us Different: Our Purpose. At every opportunity we seek to harness our capabilities for a better world. In previous years we have been integral to neutralizing terrorist cells, freeing slaves, exposing genocide, maximizing agricultural yields, demonstrating and combatting the impacts of climate change, responding to natural disasters, predicting pandemic spread, and bringing communications to all parts of the globe. A lot of companies say they are going to change the world, few can actually demonstrate that they have done it. When you wake up every day you will help make a difference.Day to Day:- Work on a distributed team with infrastructure across the United States
- Configure, deploy and administer Linux- and Windows-based environments
- Develop and implement solutions for projects in physical, virtual, and cloud environments
- Discuss and plan activities related to upgrades, migrations and other maintenance
- Must be a U.S. citizen and be willing and able to obtain a Secret security clearance
- Minimum of 5 years of previous experience in an IT systems administrator role
- Bachelor's degree in related field. Four years of additional experience may be substituted for a degree
- Experience with Linux operating systems, primarily RHEL and CentOS
- Experience with Windows Server operating systems
- Experience with virtualization, virtual switching, and VSAN technologies, particularly for VMWare
- Ability to participate in an on call rotation
- Experience with deployment/configuration management tools and related scripting technologies: Ansible, Puppet, Satellite, SCCM
- Understanding of storage technologies, CIFS, NFS, SAN
- Existing, transferable US Government "Secret" clearance, or higher.
- Previous experience with Agile methodologies
- Previous experience with medium to large-scale infrastructure installations
- Previous experience working on a distributed team
- Understanding of cloud methodologies and services, particularly AWS
- Understanding of hardening systems, working in a STIG/ICD503/CIS environment,
- CompTIA Security+ certification
- Experience with storage technologies at scale
- Familiar with HPC platforms and technologies: moab/torque, xCat
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