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Skills: Requirements Verification, System Engineering, Mission Analysis, Modeling and Simulation, TS/SCI Clearance
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$110k–$151k/yr
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bachelor degree, professional certificate
Health and Well-being Focus, Flexible Working Models, Accessibility Accommodations
Posted 49d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
Manage, maintain, and optimize enterprise server environments to support Intelligence Community customers. This includes performing deployments, security patching, and troubleshooting complex hardware and software issues to ensure mission-critical availability.
Requirements
Requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical field and experience administering Windows or Linux servers in an enterprise environment. A TS/SCI clearance with an FSP is mandatory for this position.
Full job description
At NS2 Mission, reliable infrastructure is the foundation of mission success. Our team is looking for a Systems Administrator to join us in Chantilly, VA, where you'll be responsible for managing, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise server environments that support Intelligence Community customers.
In this role, you'll collaborate with engineers, technical leads, and mission partners to deploy new systems, maintain secure and reliable server infrastructure, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and support the continuous operation of mission-critical environments. If you enjoy solving infrastructure challenges and ensuring enterprise systems perform at their best, we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities
Install, configure, administer, and maintain enterprise server environments to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and availability.
Develop and maintain server build documentation, configuration baselines, asset records, and technical procedures to support lifecycle management.
Perform server deployments, upgrades, operating system updates, security patching, and baseline configuration changes in accordance with established standards.
Monitor server health, system capacity, and performance metrics, providing tuning recommendations and implementing improvements to optimize system performance.
Respond to service requests, incidents, and outage events by troubleshooting hardware, software, and operating system issues and restoring services in a timely manner.
Support backup, recovery, and data restoration activities while maintaining secure access controls and protecting enterprise systems.
Coordinate server installations, transitions, and infrastructure changes while collaborating with internal teams, vendors, and service providers.
Maintain server rooms and support infrastructure, ensuring systems remain operational, secure, and compliant with organizational standards.
Evaluate existing server infrastructure and recommend hardware refreshes, system enhancements, and technology improvements to support future mission needs.
Participate in operational support activities, including after-hours or on-call support, special projects, and technical planning efforts as required.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
Experience administering Windows and/or Linux server environments in an enterprise environment.
Experience with server installation, configuration, patch management, operating system upgrades, and lifecycle administration.
Knowledge of server monitoring, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and capacity planning.
Experience troubleshooting server hardware, operating systems, and enterprise infrastructure issues.
Familiarity with asset management, system documentation, and configuration management best practices.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, or other federal government IT environments.
Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, or similar platforms.
Familiarity with enterprise storage solutions, Active Directory, Group Policy, and remote administration tools.
Experience with scripting or automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar technologies.
Industry certifications such as CompTIA Server+, Microsoft Certified, Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), VMware VCP, or equivalent systems administration certifications.
Position Clearance Requirement:
TS/SCI with an FSP
Salary and Benefits Information:
The salary range for this position is $110,115.00 to $150,656.00. The proposed range is intended as a general guideline. Final compensation will be determined based on qualifications, experience, location, and contractual considerations and may fall outside of the stated range. We offer a great benefits package designed to support you and your family. View our benefits information here: https://sapns2.com/ns2-mission-careers/
Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain or maintain a U.S security clearance which requires U.S citizenship.
We win with inclusion
NS2 Mission’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At NS2 Mission, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.
NS2 Mission is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with NS2 Mission and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: [email protected].
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.
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Windows ServerLinuxVMwareHyper-VActive DirectoryGroup PolicyPowerShellBashPythonCompTIA Server+RHCSAVCPTS/SCIFSPIntelligence CommunityDepartment of Defense
NS2 Mission delivers mission-focused software, data, cloud, and AI solutions for the U.S. Intelligence Community and Department of War. Our engineers, data scientists, and mission experts build and operate secure capabilities that turn complex data into trusted, actionable mission advantage.
We specialize in modern software engineering and DevSecOps, enterprise data engineering and management, cloud-native architectures, advanced analytics, geospatial solutions, and operational AI/ML. Our teams develop scalable data pipelines and repositories, automate secure software delivery, and enable data science from experimentation through production.
Our AI capabilities include production-deployed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), generative AI-assisted software development, predictive analytics, MLOps with model versioning and gold dataset management, secure data science experimentation environments, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) services that securely connect AI agents with enterprise data.
Backed by SAP NS2 and decades of experience supporting classified missions, NS2 Mission combines deep mission understanding with modern engineering to help customers securely discover, develop, deploy, and scale the data-centric capabilities their missions demand.
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