Junior System Administrator
Redstone Arsenal
Huntsville, AL
HX5 is an award-winning provider of engineering, research and development, and technical services to clients such as NASA and the Department of Defense. Founded in 2004, HX5 is a fast-growing veteran- and woman-owned company with locations nationwide.
HX5 is currently seeking a Junior System Administrator to support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Perform system administration duties on Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) suite of applications.
Support systems engineering, maintenance, and operations of cyber capabilities
Assist in troubleshooting of hardware, software, and capability of the DCO suite of applications.
Conduct functional and connectivity testing to ensure continuing operability.
Comply with organization systems administration standard operating procedures.
Maintain baseline system security according to organizational policies.
Manage accounts, network rights, and access to systems and equipment.
Manage system/server resources including performance, capacity, availability, serviceability, and recoverability.
Monitor and maintain system/server configuration.
Perform repairs on faulty system/server hardware.
Troubleshoot hardware/software interface and interoperability problems.
Install, update, and troubleshoot systems/servers.
Patch network vulnerabilities to ensure information is safeguarded against outside parties.
The Successful Candidate Will:
A positive attitude and willingness to expand knowledge and skill set
Skill in correcting physical and technical problems that impact system/server performance.
Skill in monitoring and optimizing system/server performance.
Skill in recovering failed systems/servers.
Skill in operating system administration.
Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
Knowledge of measures or indicators of system performance and availability.
Knowledge of performance tuning tools and techniques.
Knowledge of principles and methods for integrating system components.
Knowledge of systems administration concepts.
Knowledge of virtualization technologies and virtual machine development and maintenance.
Knowledge of organizational information technology (IT) user security policies (e.g., account creation, password rules, access control).
Knowledge of basic system administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques.
Knowledge of national and international laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity.
Knowledge of cybersecurity principles.
Knowledge of cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
Knowledge of specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses.
Knowledge of common network tools (e.g., ping, traceroute, ).
Knowledge of cloud computing service models Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS).
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