Everforth ECS is seeking a skilled System Administrator to join a team providing maintenance, operation, and sustainment support for Air Force Financial Systems Operations (AFFSO) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), OH. This is a hybrid position supporting both remotely and on-site at WPAFB.
In this role, you’ll perform System Administrator functions, including being responsible for activities related to maintaining a hybrid infrastructure environment spanning on-premises and AWS cloud services. This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of applications, including environments leveraging AWS Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, S3, and Apache Tomcat.
To be successful in this role, you will have senior level understanding of system log monitoring, backups, script creation and maintenance, operating system security, operating system patching, loading/configuring of new servers on-prem(virtual/Linux) and cloud(AWS) environments, hardware planning/architecture, and identification/resolution of problems within government networks.
You will have strong knowledge of interpreting/drafting software requirements in a technically proficient manner as identified by the customer and providing technical advice on potential impacts requirements have on system sustainment.
Specific tasks you will perform as a System Administrator include, but are not limited to:
- Ensuring long-term requirements of systems operations and administration are included in the overall information systems planning of the organization.
- Installing, maintaining, configuring, and ensuring integrity of computer software
- Managing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based AWS environments including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, RDS, and Beanstalk deployments.
- Implementing operating system enhancements that will improve the reliability and performance of the system.
- Implementing security controls as directed by policy and the security specialist relating to information assurance procedures and systems.
- Preparing activity and progress reports relating to the information systems audit function.
- Providing second-tier support to end-users for PC, server, and hardware.
- Handling problems that the first tier of help desk support is unable to resolve.
- Interacting with network services, software systems engineering, and/or applications development to restore service and/or identify and correct core problem.
- Simulating or recreating user problems to resolve operating difficulties.
- Recommending systems modifications to reduce user problems.
- Maintaining currency and the highest level of technical skill in field of expertise
- Installing, supporting, and maintaining computer systems.
- Performing contingency planning, assist with testing, diagnosing software and hardware failures to resolution and implementing and ensuring security preventive measures are fully functioning
- Monitoring and enhancing system performance, and troubleshooting performance issues and outages in diverse enterprise environments
- Implementing scheduled jobs related
- US. Citizenship
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems
- Security + Certification or higher
- 3 to 5+ years’ experience in the field
- Experience in managing servers running RedHat Linux in on-prem and cloud (AWS) environments.
- Experience supporting database, web server, and file server platforms with planning, sizing, security, backup and recovery, maintenance, and migration.
- Experience supporting various enterprise tools in a team environment.
- Experience identifying problems, building solutions, and standardizing both virtual and physical environments
- Proven ability to design and develop technical reports and integrate them with report tools.
- Extensive understanding of system log monitoring, backups, bash script creation, privileged access management and maintenance, operating system security, quarterly operating system patching, loading/configuring of new servers, hardware planning/architecture, and identification/resolution of problems within government networks
On-Prem Specific
- Red Hat Linux Server Premium
- VEEAM Backup and Replication
- VMware virtualization and experience with VM environments
- Oracle WebLogic Server
- Hardware/Software installation, setup, troubleshooting, and decommission
- Experience with ports/protocols along with system-to-system file transmission
- Experience deploying war files across multiple servers.
Cloud Environment Specific
- AWS cloud services and migration efforts for a PaaS architecture.
- Knowledge and understanding or Oracle RDS
- Experience deploying Beanstalk configurations in AWS.
- Experience creating, deploying, and implementing S3 architectures.
- Experience with logging initiatives using CloudWatch and CloudTrail in AWS.
- Experience using Apache Tomcat Web Server.
Skills Required
- Manage, implement, and maintain AWS environments including EC2, S3, RDS, and Elastic Beanstalk
- Operate and troubleshoot Apache Tomcat web server and deploy WAR files across servers
- Administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers (virtual and physical)
- Perform system log monitoring, backups, and develop/maintain scripts (bash)
- Implement OS security controls and perform quarterly operating system patching
- Load, configure, and provision new servers on-premises (VM) and in AWS
- Experience with VMWare virtualization and managing VM environments
- Experience with Veeam Backup and Replication for on-prem backups
- Experience with Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle RDS/Oracle-related platforms
- Implement and monitor AWS logging using CloudWatch and CloudTrail
- Provide second-tier support for PC, server, and hardware issues and troubleshoot outages
- Perform contingency planning, testing, diagnosis of software/hardware failures, and recovery
- Knowledge of ports/protocols and system-to-system file transmission
- US Citizenship
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems
- Security+ certification or higher
- 3 to 5+ years' experience in systems administration / related field
- Experience supporting database, web server, and file server platforms (planning, sizing, backup/recovery, migration)
- Experience with enterprise tools and team-based support environments
- Proven ability to design and develop technical reports and integrate with reporting tools
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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