Systems Administrator

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Silver Spring, MD, USA
In-Office
110K-140K Annually
Expert/Leader
Digital Media
The Role
Administer and support AWS-hosted IT infrastructure, including Drupal CMS on a LAMP stack. Configure, patch, troubleshoot, and maintain Linux systems, servers, storage, networks, mobile devices, and cloud services. Resolve complex infrastructure and integration issues, provide help desk support, optimize capacity and performance, maintain system integrity, and support system architecture design. The role requires experience with SOLR, Elasticsearch, and related search infrastructure, with Akamai and Acquia experience preferred.
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Overview
DRT Strategies delivers expert management consulting and information technology (IT) solutions to large federal agencies, state and local government and commercial clients in health care, technology, and financial services industries.
The three letters of our name, DRT, stand for Driving Resolution Together, which is the core philosophy on which the company was founded. That is, we collaborate with our clients to solve their most pressing challenges - together.
We are problem solvers dedicated to your success, combining Fortune 500 experience with small business responsiveness. We have established a reputation with our clients as a forward-thinking consulting firm with demonstrated success in implementing solutions that lead to meaningful results. Our world-class consultants unite people to work collaboratively to achieve project goals and make vision a reality.
Project Description:
FDA.gov website experiences more than 670 million hits, 43.34 TB of data transferred, and 17.4 million visitors per month, making it the "front door" to the FDA for a substantial portion of the public. The site is a key component of FDA's mission to communicate effectively with healthcare professionals and the public, supporting the agency's Transparency and Open Government efforts and providing the public with numerous opportunities to interact directly with FDA.
This project supports the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in translating business needs into technology solutions across FDA's public-facing web environment, providing administration, infrastructure support, and strategic planning for FDA's Web presence. Support for FDA's web infrastructure, including its Content Management System (CMS), is intended to enhance the agency's ability to manage web content effectively. The current CMS, built on Drupal, supports FDA's public-facing site, which spans more than 65,000 documents and pages and is maintained by more than 600 active site contributors.
Job Summary:
This position requires an experienced systems administrator capable of working independently, troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues, implementing secure enterprise solutions, and supporting highly classified operational environments.
Responsibilities:
  • Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of IT systems and cloud services hosted in AWS. Primary systems include Drupal CMS hosted on a LAMP stack.
  • Manage and maintain IT system infrastructure, services, and processes related to client, server, storage, network devices and mobile devices.
  • Perform help desk support, including problem identification, diagnosis, and resolution.
  • Analyze and resolve complex problems associated with server hosts, applications and software integration
  • Optimize system operations and resource utilization; perform capacity analysis and system planning.
  • Troubleshoot and maintain system integrity and network components.
  • Provide detailed analysis and feedback to management and internal customers on escalated issues.
  • Support the design of system architectures and associated hardware.
  • Configure and manage Linux and other applicable operating systems, including installs/patching of operating system software, troubleshooting, maintaining integrity of and configure network components, and implementation of operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance
  • Support the design of systems, mission architecture and associated hardware
  • Possess a working knowledge and understanding of system administration interdependencies as part of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Required Experience:
  • 10+ years of related experience in systems administration or IT operations
  • Experience with Linux, SOLR search, and ElasticSearch, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
  • Experience with Akamai CDN services and Drupal website hosting platforms (e.g., Acquia) is desired.
Education & Training:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or other related technical discipline
Work Authorization, Clearance Requirement, & Additional Information:
  • This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Public Trust clearance. Due to contract requirements, candidates must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents (green card holders) to be eligible.
  • No agencies, third parties, or Corp-to-Corp submissions.
Salary Range:
  • $110,000 - $140,000
  • Salary commensurate with experience.

Skills Required

  • 10+ years of related experience in systems administration or IT operations
  • Experience with Linux, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance
  • Experience with SOLR search, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance
  • Experience with Elasticsearch, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance
  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical discipline
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Public Trust clearance
  • U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status
  • Experience with Akamai CDN services
  • Experience with Drupal website hosting platforms such as Acquia
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The Company
HQ: Arlington, VA
219 Employees
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

DRT Strategies, Inc. (DRT) is an award-winning technology innovator and leading digital transformation partner to large federal agencies and commercial clients for nearly 20 years. The company is a ServiceNow™ Partner - Specialist, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Consulting Partner, UiPath Partner, SAFe Bronze Partner, Esri Bronze Partner, and holds ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018, and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certifications and has achieved CMMI-DEV Level 3. DRT is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with offices in Atlanta, Georgia. More information on the company can be found at www.drtstrategies.com.

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