AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.
THIS IS A FULL TIME ON SITE POSITION LOCATED AT POINT MUGU, CA.
As our next Systems Administrator for NAVAIR, you'll collaborate with talented professionals to create innovative, mission-critical solutions that empower naval aviation and defense operations. Your expertise will help shape cutting-edge systems, enhance national security, and drive technological advancement for our nation.
Responsibilities- Provide engineering solutions for various and unique problem sets and customers in a government software hosting facility.
- Deploy and maintain physical and virtual hardware infrastructure, to include virtual machines and containers.
- Perform routine maintenance and configuration changes to various physical and virtual hosts.
- Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of hardware and software issues on servers, workstations, and IT equipment.
- Maintain system backups and disaster recovery plans.
- Manage user accounts and permissions.
- Deploy and maintain software applications.
- Troubleshoot technical issues.
- Maintain documentation to include knowledge base, incident response actions, system configurations, and other information related to system administration.
- Provide technical support to customers, ranging from resolving technical issues to providing guidance and best-practices.
- Secure information systems and applications to current DoD guidance
- Maintain configuration and security posture of information systems through continuous monitoring and routine security events/reporting.
- Participate in project planning using Agile methodology.
- Provide networking support to on-premises infrastructure.
- Understanding and familiarity of Linux operating system and virtual networking.
- Active Secret with ability to obtain Top Secret (interim to start). Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Risk Management Framework (RMF) compliance experience preferred (example: scanning and Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) execution)
- CompTIA Sec+
- Windows or Linux OS certification
- ACAS Operator and Supervisor Course completion preferred (Certification must be within the 3 year active window)
- At least 5+ years of experience
Desired:
- Software familiarity:
- Veeam Backup
- Windows (10-11)
- Windows Server (2016-2022)
- Linux (Red Hat)
- VMWare (ESXi, VSphere, VCF, VSAN, NSX)
- Cisco (iOS and NX-OS)
- PDQ Deploy
- Atlassian
- Gitlab
- Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- ACAS (SecurityCenter, Nessus Scanner)
- STIGManager
- Evaluate-STIG
- Containers (Docker, Podman)
Skills Required
- Active Secret security clearance with ability to obtain Top Secret clearance; interim clearance may start
- U.S. citizenship
- CompTIA Security+ certification
- Windows or Linux operating system certification
- At least 5 years of experience
- Risk Management Framework compliance experience, including scanning and STIG execution
- ACAS Operator and Supervisor Course completion within the three-year active window
AMERICAN SYSTEMS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AMERICAN SYSTEMS and has not been reviewed or approved by AMERICAN SYSTEMS.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — The ESOP provides an ownership stake that adds long-term financial value and complements base pay. This employee-ownership structure stands out within the overall package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with automatic enrollment and broad investment options, alongside the ESOP, strengthens retirement pathways beyond salary. These features are presented as competitive within the defense contracting space.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Base pay is considered fair or comparable to industry peers, particularly for technical roles. Starting compensation is described as solid for areas like cybersecurity, systems administration, and IT engineering.
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What We Do
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned government services contractor that delivers professional, technical, information technology, engineering, analysis, testing, evaluation, and training solutions for complex national-priority programs. Based in McLean, Virginia, the company supports federal customers—particularly defense and other Department of Defense missions—with mission-essential and information engineering, digital engineering, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, data, and lifecycle IT services across critical public-sector environments.
