Overview
Are you a Senior Systems Administrator who would like to have a positive impact for millions of people? If so, we may have an opportunity for you!
TISTA associates enjoy above Industry Healthcare Benefits, Remote Working Options, Paid Time Off, Training/Certification opportunities, Healthcare Savings Account & Flexible Savings Account, Paid Life Insurance, Short-term & Long-term Disability, 401K Match, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Paid Holidays, Military Leave, and much more!
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Responsibilities
Provide hourly support with patching, configuring, and maintaining systems, manually or by using automated tools in accordance with VA Regulations, Organizational directives, handbooks, Policies and procedures
Work with ServiceNow (SNOW) and the Service Desk Manager automated tool, to assign and work incident tickets
Monitor the Incident Que and Triage emails or problems submitted by customers, reviews system configuration, implementation plans, oversees and provide support for provisioning, configuration management, virtual machine administration, directory services, volume management, system monitoring on both Linux Systems and Servers, addressing after core hour system outages, and other OS related processes and procedures
serve as part of the technical team of Linux/Unix System Administrators (SA) who oversees, manage and assists in the installation and integration of servers, applications and services in support of over 250 applications
Apply vulnerability mitigation strategies, systems fixes, updates, and enhancements; troubleshooting failed environments, create servers and assigning storage shares
Maintain operating system shell scripts to ensure various reports, required for CRISP Reporting, as well as Security requested information
Coordinate with Project Managers to set/adjust schedules for after hour patching, as well as assisting with systems hardware/software acquisitions and maintenance
Support Linux/Unix Divisional Operations using automation tools, provisioning, virtualization, configuration management, security, clustering, backups, networking, disaster recovery, volume management, file system management, storage management, as well as disk and network I/O requirements
Qualifications
Must have experience with Linux/Unix
Experience creating plans to assure effective management, operations, and maintenance of systems and/or networks
Experience with planning activities to include complex systems involving interagency coordination
Experience with ServiceNow (SNOW) and the Service Desk Manager
Experience patching Linux/Unix
Experience troubleshooting Incident Que and Triage emails and fix customers issues
Must be capable working independently and/or with other services line and technology leads on assigned tasks
Education:
Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, systems, business, or related scientific /technical discipline and 5+ years' work experience
Eight (8) years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education (13 years total)
Clearance:
The ability to pass a Tier 4/HIGH Background Investigation
Location:
Austin, TX.(100% On-site)
Sunday - Thursday (11:30 PM - 8:00 AM CST Time)
Austin Information Technology Center Department of Veteran's Affairs 1615 Woodward St Austin, TX 78741
TISTA Science and Technology Corporation,a CMMI Maturity Level 3 company, focuses on delivering information technology and professional services to Federal and State agencies. TISTA is recognized in 2019 by Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US. TISTA is also a recipient of 2019 Top Veteran-Owned Companies by the Washington Business Journal. TISTA also received a 2018 Moxie Award in the GovCon category.
Here at TISTA Science and Technology, we value Veterans and encourage all to apply!
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Employment Transparency:
TISTA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of TISTA to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. TISTA will refrain from discharging, or otherwise discriminating against, employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants.
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Tista is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail torecruiting@tistatech.comor call (301) 968-3420 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
TISTA is a federal contractor and is subject to the federal contractor COVID requirements under the new FAR/DFARS clauses and must comply with the incorporated Guidance.
If the candidate is hired to perform work on or in connection with one of TISTA's federal contracts, TISTA is contractually obligated to ask the candidate to verify and show proof of vaccination status and the candidate will be required to comply with mask and social distancing requirements imposed by the FAR/DFARS as well as any additional requirements imposed by TISTA's customers for any required onsite work.
Job ID2024-5487
Job LocationsUS-TX-Austin
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